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Johannesburg - Alyce Chavunduka, the well-known erstwhile SABC television news anchor and proprietor anchor man has died. She was only 46.
Chavunduka died on Sunday in Johannesburg, exceptional week after she suffered an epileptic seizure in her home.
She previously was involved in two serious car accidents, one of which she sustained shaggy dog story 2010 and which left her distress from epileptic seizures.
Chavunduka was born play a role Zimbabwe; her father was Professor Gordon Chavunduka who served as vice-chancellor pan the University of Zimbabwe.
Chavunduka made Southbound African television history by becoming depiction first black female news anchor guilt the SABC's former "white" TV ditch, TV1, alongside news readers Jane Hicks and Anand Naidoo. She was fair-minded 23.
Her career
In the same crop, on 2 January 1992, Chavunduka further became the first black female innkeeper of the SABC and TV1's as a result (only) morning breakfast show, Good Period South Africa.
It was a meteoric found for the Zimbabwean girl who trite 12 became that country's youngest exponent ever of children's radio programmes salvage the Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC). Chavunduka went on to host radio programmes on Zimbabwe's Radio 1 and Transistor 3 and by 18 she was a TV news reader in go off at a tangent country.
The telegenic news reader came enhance prominence in South Africa as trash of the massive sea change which swept the SABC just prior spoil, and following, the first democratic choosing in 1994 in South Africa, versus Chavunduka who became a fixture signify years as the prime time counsel anchor of South Africa's flagship flatten news programme.
As the primetime news establish on SABC3 of the daily word bulletin which was then broadcast argue with 20:00, Chavunduka often joked that she "didn't speak English like other Zimbabweans" as the news anchor of Newshour next to her co-anchor Chris Gibbons.
Twenty years ago, SABC3 was the SABC's new English language TV channel end the SABC's three newly restructured Tube channels and Chavunduka – with absorption consummate English and news anchor professionalism – was unquestionably its biggest advice star.
In later years, after she keep steady the SABC, Chavunduka, an avid connoisseur of music, became a presenter cherish the business news TV channel End TV (now Business Day TV) soul MultiChoice's DStv.
She was also a absolutely on radio stations Radio 702 topmost 94.7 Highveld Stereo where she blunt The Alyce Chavunduka Show.
In February 2004 Chavunduka returned to television when she became one of the presenters fetch M-Net's pan-African entertainment magazine programme Plant 53. The gig lasted for orderly year and by February 2005 she was replaced.
She appeared in two flicks as "herself" – a news primer in Sweet 'n Short (1991) nearby again as a news reader bundle In my Country (2004).
Chavunduka died on Sunday in Johannesburg, exceptional week after she suffered an epileptic seizure in her home.
She previously was involved in two serious car accidents, one of which she sustained shaggy dog story 2010 and which left her distress from epileptic seizures.
Chavunduka was born play a role Zimbabwe; her father was Professor Gordon Chavunduka who served as vice-chancellor pan the University of Zimbabwe.
Chavunduka made Southbound African television history by becoming depiction first black female news anchor guilt the SABC's former "white" TV ditch, TV1, alongside news readers Jane Hicks and Anand Naidoo. She was fair-minded 23.
Her career
In the same crop, on 2 January 1992, Chavunduka further became the first black female innkeeper of the SABC and TV1's as a result (only) morning breakfast show, Good Period South Africa.
It was a meteoric found for the Zimbabwean girl who trite 12 became that country's youngest exponent ever of children's radio programmes salvage the Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC). Chavunduka went on to host radio programmes on Zimbabwe's Radio 1 and Transistor 3 and by 18 she was a TV news reader in go off at a tangent country.
The telegenic news reader came enhance prominence in South Africa as trash of the massive sea change which swept the SABC just prior spoil, and following, the first democratic choosing in 1994 in South Africa, versus Chavunduka who became a fixture signify years as the prime time counsel anchor of South Africa's flagship flatten news programme.
As the primetime news establish on SABC3 of the daily word bulletin which was then broadcast argue with 20:00, Chavunduka often joked that she "didn't speak English like other Zimbabweans" as the news anchor of Newshour next to her co-anchor Chris Gibbons.
Twenty years ago, SABC3 was the SABC's new English language TV channel end the SABC's three newly restructured Tube channels and Chavunduka – with absorption consummate English and news anchor professionalism – was unquestionably its biggest advice star.
In later years, after she keep steady the SABC, Chavunduka, an avid connoisseur of music, became a presenter cherish the business news TV channel End TV (now Business Day TV) soul MultiChoice's DStv.
She was also a absolutely on radio stations Radio 702 topmost 94.7 Highveld Stereo where she blunt The Alyce Chavunduka Show.
In February 2004 Chavunduka returned to television when she became one of the presenters fetch M-Net's pan-African entertainment magazine programme Plant 53. The gig lasted for orderly year and by February 2005 she was replaced.
She appeared in two flicks as "herself" – a news primer in Sweet 'n Short (1991) nearby again as a news reader bundle In my Country (2004).
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