Monday, August 21, 2017

Veteran SABC journalist and Johannesburg assignment editor, Zola Ntutu, dead at 51.

The ill veteran SABC News journalist Zola Ntutu has died. He was 51.

Zola Ntutu joined the SABC in the early 1990's as a SABC News reporter and has been the SABC's SABC Radio news assignment editor in Johannesburg.

The SABC reported that Zola Ntutu was found dead at his flat in Kenilworth south of Johannesburg on Sunday morning.

Zola Ntutu's brother Eric Ntutu told the SABC that he got a call that Zola Ntutu's flat was locked for about two or three days.

"We had to break down the door. We found him lying in his bed. He was everything to me. I'm very shocked and sad about his passing."