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H-Metro Reporter
PHILANTHROPIST and former Miss Rural patron Susan Jason Muradzikwa has died.
She was 49.
Popularly known as Ms Jason, Susan succumbed to migraine at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals where she had been admitted in the past week.
“Susan died yesterday (Monday) around 3pm when I had just visited her at the hospital.
“I left her in the hospital going home to Bikita to take our mother and it was when I got to Chivhu that I received the call that she had died,” said her brother Jason Muradzikwa.
Muradzikwa said they had lost a pillar and a unifier in the family.
“It is a great loss to the family.
“Susan was a unifier and a philanthropist who was known all over.
“It is with deep heart that we have lost her when we thought that she was recuperating,” said Muradzikwa.
Prosecutor-General Mr Johannes Tomana yesterday described Ms Jason as one great person who had helped in different circles in the country.
“She was always in a jovial mood.
“She was a helper, a friend and someone who was always there to help those in need,” said Mr Tomana during the church service held for the late Ms Jason at a local funeral parlour.
Ms Jason’s body was taken to her rural home in Bikita yesterday where burial is scheduled for today around 2pm.
Ms Jason is known for fighting for young rural girl’s rights when some of them were reportedly abused in camp for the Miss Rural pageant.
She took in some of the girls to stay with her when they were abused while paying for their school fees.
Some of them successfully got married.
The pageant was later ordered to stop operating after cases of abuse were unearthed; Ms Jason fought for the girls’ rights after realising that girls were being abused.
Among the notable dignitaries at the sending off service were the director of State Functions, Major General Engelbert Rugeje – the Chief of Staff of the Zimbabwe National Army, renowned doctor and Chitungwiza Central Hospital CEO Dr Obadiah Moyo and businessman Farai Matsika among others.
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