CAUSE OF DEATH: Journalist, Eusebius McKaiser, has died from a suspected epileptic seizure

Eusebius McKaiser has died from a suspected epileptic seizure.

He was in Johannesburg at the time of his death, said Strydom.

“Unfortunately, I can confirm that it is true. He died earlier this afternoon in Joburg,” said Strydom when asked about reports of McKaiser’s death.

Celebrated analyst, broadcaster and author Eusebius McKaiser has died after suffering a suspected epileptic seizure, his manager Jackie Strydom told TimesLIVE on Tuesday.

She said he was going about his day without any hint of illness. 

“It all happened so quickly. His partner Nduduzo Nyanda is at the mortuary with his family,” said Strydom.

“I am so distraught. I can’t believe this.” His biography on the Rhodes University website said McKaiser was a political activist and an associate political and social analyst at the Wits Centre for Ethics where he participated in research that examined the relationship between civil society and the state in the policy arena, particularly in the light of the changing post-Polokwane political landscape.

“As a political activist what matters to him is getting to grips with the social and political topics that impact on our lives, and making people sit up and take notice of this,” the university said.