Saidi gave journalism a good name

WILLIAM (Bill) Sylvester Saidi, who died this week at the age of 79, was a doyen of journalists in Zimbabwe.

echoes: CONWAY TUTANI

The word “doyen” — meaning a person considered to be knowledgeable or uniquely skilled as a result of long experience in some field of endeavour — cannot, and should not, be applied to each and every one (munhu wese wese, as they say in Shona), but to the Saidis of journalism.

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