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== Biography ==
 
== Biography ==
Former editor of 'Echo' newspaper and ex-assistant editor of the 'Natal Witness'
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Former editor of 'Echo' newspaper and ex-assistant editor of the 'Natal Witness'. He also worked for the [[SABC]].
  
 
He passed away in Pietermaritzburg in July 2016.
 
He passed away in Pietermaritzburg in July 2016.
  
 
=== Career ===
 
=== Career ===
 
  
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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Khaba Mkhize (19**-2016). Poet, playwright, journalist.

Biography

Former editor of 'Echo' newspaper and ex-assistant editor of the 'Natal Witness'. He also worked for the SABC.

He passed away in Pietermaritzburg in July 2016.

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Among the plays that he wrote are Pity! Maritzburg and the controversial Bone 4 Mandela (2001).

Awards, etc

His play Pity! Maritzburg was nominated for a Vita Award (National) in 1991.

He won a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as a journalist in 2009.

Sources

Natal Witness, 9 September 1991.

City Press, 2 September 2001 (re: Bone 4 Mandela).

The Citizen [1].

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