Tawanda Mutasah: "In 1999, five years, at that point, into our friendship and successive professional collaborations with Everjoice, my wife shared with me that, on a visit she had paid EJ at her home in Johannesburg, she had seen her name and my name, and our phone numbers, neatly typed up and held under a magnet on EJ’s fridge. They were, or in time were set to be, among names of her family, like Fungwa’s, or her friends like Ennie Chipembere, Sophia Nyamudeza, Teresa Mugadza, Deprose Muchena, Bella Matambanadzo, Brian Kagoro, and others – that would be put up on the refrigerator for those in EJ’s household to call in the event that they couldn’t reach her."
Rise Kagona was in his 20s when Bhundu boys released his composition “Hupenyu Hwangu” about 40 years ago (translated ‘My life’). Kagona was on lead vocals. The reflections contemplated the day he would die and argued that “I live for pleasure. I brought pleasure into this world. If I am not there, there is no pleasure. Sing and dance at my funeral.”
Golden Maunganidze: "Veteran Zimbabwean journalist Simba Rushwaya who succumbed to a long battle with cancer of the colon was a people’s person who got along easily with colleagues in the media industry."
Talented Personal Assistant, Administrator and Secretary for the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Annie Musemburi died early on Saturday morning. She is survived by her 3 children Chido, Rufaro and Tashinga. Anne, previously worked for the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe as a PA for Editor in Chief, Geoffrey Nyarota between 1999 and 2002. A journalist who worked at the Daily News gives us this moving tribute as he remembers Annie who was nicknamed "Madam Admin".
Gabriel Manyati: "Without doubt, the charismatic leader lived a truly remarkable life, achieving victory after victory right until the day he drew his last breath. His troubled first marriage ended in desertion and divorce, he openly discussed the frictions with his wife in the early days of his second marriage that sometimes had his wife thinking about packing, he started out handicapped by poverty and illiteracy, tongues wagged when his only son – Ezekiel Jr – was born and went through life with debilitating cerebral palsy, some of his daughters got impregnated out of wedlock, some of his trusted lieutenants lost faith in his leadership and jumped ship."
