December 11, 2024

Top SA journalist Jeremy Gordin killed in ‘home invasion .




Retired journalist Jeremy Gordin was killed during a robbery at his home in Parkview, Johannesburg, Gauteng. 


Report indicates that Gordin’s family were in Cape Town and grew concerned when Gordin was


Gordin, a former associate editor of The Sunday Independent and a former editor of the Daily Sun, ran the Justice Project at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Journalism.


Gordin was born in 1952 in Pretoria and educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as Unisa. He began his journalism career in 1976.


In 2007 he was named the Mondi Shanduka Journalist of the Year.


He co-authored two books of investigative journalism, The Infernal Tower and A Long Night’s Damage, but is most widely known for his biography of president Jacob Zuma, Zuma: A Biography.


unresponsive to messages .


A friend gained access to Gordin’s home – which had been locked from the outside – and found it had been ransacked and his body had been covered.


His wife, Deborah, already confirmed his death.


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