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Veteran journalist Nyahunzvi dies
MISA-Zimbabwe
September 21, 2010
MISA-Zimbabwe
Trustee, Tim Mutero Nyahunzvi, a veteran journalist and accomplished
media trainer, has died.
Nyahunzvi, 72,
died in Harare on 20 September 2010. He had previously been admitted
at Parirenyatwa Hospital battling with prostate cancer for which
he was supposed to have been operated on.
A dedicated
media professional, Uncle Tim, as he was passionately referred to
by several of his former media students at the Harare Polytechnic's
Division of Mass Communication, Nyahunzvi co-authored and contributed
to several journalism handbooks which were used as reference material
by media students throughout Africa.
Notable among
these is Reporting in Africa published by the Thomson Foundation
in London and Friedrich Nauman Foundation and An Editor's
Manual published by Mambo Press.
Despite lecturing
in journalism at the Harare Polytechnic from 1981 to 1997 where
he retired as head of the Division of Mass Communication, Nyahunzvi
also had similar stints in Zambia and Kenya in the 1960s clocking
more than 40 years in journalism and media training.
He remained
active upon his retirement from the Harare Polytechnic conducting
upgrading courses and seminars for journalists and media personnel
in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Kenya and Swaziland. Despite working
for Zimbabwean and Zambian publications as a journalist and media
trainer, he also branched into public relations in-between his luminous
career as an accomplished journalist.
"Zimbabwe is a country in transition. It has a lot to catch
up with," said Nyahunzvi when he appeared before a parliamentary
committee during interviews for positions with the Zimbabwe Media
Commission.
"The role of the media of communication in a country like
ours is enormous and vital. The media does not only need to be free
and independent, but it must be responsible and ethical."
This says it
all about the sum-total of a dedicated and committed professional
who spoke, slept, dreamt and woke up to journalism excellence and
responsibility.
MISA-Zimbabwe
and indeed the entire media family in Zimbabwe and beyond have thus
been robbed of one of the few remaining raconteurs on the evolution
of journalism in Zimbabwe and Africa. While we mourn his departure,
his distinguished commitment to the profession should serve to inspire
latter day Zimbabwean journalists to excel beyond Nyahunzvi's
unblemished trail-blazing journalism career.
Details of funeral
arrangements are still being arranged and mourners are gathered
at Number 13 Mukarati Road, Mufakose in Harare.
May his soul
rest in eternal peace.
Update
on Nyahunzvi funeral arrangements
September 24, 2010
Veteran journalist, Tim
Nyahunzvi, a trustee of MISA-Zimbabwe and accomplished media trainer,
will be buried at Warren Hills Cemetery on Saturday, 25 September
2010.
A funeral service will
be held at 3pm today (Friday) at Nyaradzo Funeral Parlour along
Herbert Chitepo Avenue in Harare. Thereafter, his body will be taken
to number 13 Mukarati Road, Mufakose, where it will lie in state
for the night vigil.
He will be buried tomorrow
(Saturday) at Warren Hills Cemetery at 11am.
Nyahunzvi, 72, died in
Harare on 20 September 2010. He had previously been admitted at
Parirenyatwa Hospital battling with prostate cancer for which he
was supposed to have been operated on.
A dedicated media professional,
Uncle Tim, as he was passionately referred to by several of his
former media students at the Harare Polytechnic's Division
of Mass Communication, Nyahunzvi co-authored and contributed to
several journalism handbooks which were used as reference material
by media students throughout Africa.
Notable among
these is Reporting in Africa published by the Thomson Foundation
in London and Friedrich Nauman Foundation and An Editor's
Manual published by Mambo Press.
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