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CHRONICLE Business Editor Mernat Mafirakurewa, who died in a road accident on Wednesday night, will be buried today at Warren Hills Cemetery in Harare.
Mafirakurewa, 33, died on the spot near Beatrice along Masvingo-Harare highway when a South Africa-bound King Lion bus tried to overtake another vehicle and allegedly encroached onto his lane, resulting in a head-on collision.
The horrific crash also killed a passenger who was in the bus.
A workmate he was travelling with on assignment to Harare, Sunday News Senior Business Reporter, Roberta Katunga escaped with some injuries.
Mafirakurewa and Katunga were on their way to attend the National Tourism Policy launch on Thursday.
A family spokesperson Michael Mafirakurewa said Mernat will be buried at 12.00PM.
“A funeral service for Mernat will be held at his home in Ridge Park, Harare at 9AM and he will be buried at Warren Hills at 12.00PM.”
Born and bred in Bulawayo, Mafirakurewa joined the Sunday News in 2003 as a junior reporter after graduating with a Diploma in Mass Communication from BES College in Bulawayo. He left Zimpapers to pursue business interests in 2007 before rejoining the organisation in 2009 at Chronicle as a sit-in correspondent on the business desk.
In 2010 he joined Alpha Media Holdings as a senior reporter at NewsDay.
He was promoted to the position of acting business editor in 2012 before being appointed news editor last year. Mafirakurewa rejoined Chronicle as Business Editor in March this year.
He was studying towards a degree in Media and Society Studies at the Midlands State University.
Mafirakurewa is survived by wife Samu and three children, two girls and a boy. Mourners are gathered at the family home at number 557 Rydale Ridge Park near Snake Park in Harare.
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