Top journo Gordin slain

● Veteran journalist Jeremy Gordin was killed on Friday night at his home in Parkview, Johannesburg, in what was said to be a “robbery gone wrong”.

His wife Deborah, confirmed to the Sunday Times that he was killed during a robbery.

“I don’t have full details at the moment because I’m in Cape Town,” she said.

It is understood that two robbers held him up and stabbed him in his house where he was alone at the time. They got away with a car and a TV set.

Police spokesperson Col Mavela Masondo confirmed a case of house robbery and murder had been opened.

“No arrests have been made yet, but an investigation and manhunt for the suspects are underway.”

Gordin was a former associate editor of The Sunday Independent and a former editor of the Daily Sun. He also had a stint at the Sunday Times.

He was born in 1952 in Pretoria and educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as Unisa. He began his journalism career in 1976.

He co-authored two books, The Infernal Tower and A Long Night’s Damage but is widely known for the biography on the life and times of President Jacob Zuma entitled Zuma: A Biography.

He is survived by his wife, Deborah, and their two children, Jake and Nina.