It was with a lot of sadness that I learnt of the passing away of Robert Kirby, whom I had got to know and like through his M&G satirical political column Loose Cannon. While I had not met him, through reading his column over the years, I almost felt like I knew him very well, so much so that I felt like if we were in the same room, I would approach him and discuss a variety of issues.
Besides being a newspaper columnist, I learnt (with delightful surprise) that he had also worked in broadcasting, was a novelist and playwright. He died on Friday evening, apparently from a heart related disease.
Satirical journalism is almost non-existent in our print media, so it is in this vein that I feel Kirby will certainly be missed by his fans, mostly for being witty, comical and cynical.
May The Cannon retire in peace.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Lala Ngoxolo Robert Kirby
Posted by Bigman Penada at Monday, February 12, 2007
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3 comments:
OH MY GHARD!
Robert is gone too?
I completely missed the news.
Shame man.
HE was indeed one of the best. Also got hooked on the M&G partly because of him.
SHIT MAN!
big man...ur back...
where have u been??
been keeping a low profile. miss k spoke about self-sensorship the other time, when the readership of my blog grew(to 20 readers or so i guestimate), it started becoming more and more difficult to make postings.
blogging is the only media we have so i still think we should exploit it.
i have been inpired back by all of your blogs which i continue to read religiously :-)
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