SA-based Zim promoter dies

SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean music promoter and businessman Rodger Muzawazi (pictured) has died.

Muzawazi, who had turned his Ekurhuleni Boksburg Hotel into the preferred rendezvous for Zimbabwean music, died in the early hours of yesterday.

A close friend and arts promoter also based in South Africa, Tongai Mbidzo, told NewsDay Life & Style that Muzawazi fell ill last week and was admitted to a health facility in Boksburg on the outskirts of Johannesburg on Monday.

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