WINDHOEK, Namibia – Patience Nyangove, a former reporter with The Daily Mirror and The Standard has died in Namibia where she was a senior reporter with the Confidente newspaper.
Colleagues said the 38-year-old succumbed to kidney failure.
She died at 4AM on October 1, three weeks after she was hospitalised in Windhoek.
Nyangove joined the Confidente in 2011.
Confidente founding editor Max Hamata, in a statement, described Nyangove as a hardworking and passionate investigative journalist who covered several reporting beats with particular interest in politics and health.
“Her investigative work included several criminal enterprises, stemming from [the] GIPF multi-million dollar fraud saga, investigation into racketeering, illegal abortions by several doctors and Chinese government scholarships,” Hamata said.
“We have lost one of our own and we can only honour her legacy by building on the foundation that she left us. Certainly journalism is poorer without her and we offer our deepest condolences to her family.”
Colleagues in Zimbabwe said she was highly-regarded.
“She started her journalism journey from Mutare as a keen and brave young journalist. She was full of potential early on and went on to prove her mettle not only in Zimbabwe but Namibia as well,” said former colleague Clayton Masekesa.
