Zimbabweans receive news of Alex Magaisa's death with shock

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Zimbabweans from all works of life have received the news of Alex Magaisa who reportedly died of cardiac arrest this morning with great shock.

Alex Tawanda Magaisa (born December 9, 1975) was a United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean academic and lecturer of law at the Kent Law School of the University of Kent. He served as the Advisor (Chief of Staff) of the then Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai from 2012 to 2013.

“We are poorer without Alex Magaisa. He contributed immensely to the academic world in terms of law lecturing. In Zimbabwe, he made the majority of citizens understand erudite information about the law in very simple terms through his Big Saturday Read Series (BSR). May his dear soul rest in peace,” said Christopher Mujajati, an engineer based in Harare.

Delivering the sad news on the Twitter microblogging site, Dr. Ibbo Mandaza, the founder of SAPES Trust and a Senior African Civil Servant at Independence said, “Just received the sad news that Alex Magaisa is no more; a great loss to Zimbabwe’s intellectual community, to the struggle for a better and democratic Zimbabwe.”

Farai from Marombedza was devastated by the news.

“No no no then all my Hope for a better Zim is Gone. Not mkoma Alex. He has been very quiet of late. Pliz this has to be a must mistake. Mukoma Alex can’t leave us not now pliz God.

“He was there for all of us, lifting our hopes with his in-depth analysis of our current affairs as a nation; selling us hope and defending us from ZANU people who would attack us using biased facts. He is more than a brother to me.I can’t take this news. I had a dream of a better Zim now,” he tweeted in his condolence messages.

Award willing journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono had this to say on Twitter:

“Zimbabwean public intellectual Dr Alex Magaisa @Wamagaisa has died. He suffered a cardiac arrest this morning at Margate Hospital at 10 am. Family contacts – Levy Magaisa +263773596424 Esteri Magaisa +263772211731.”

Darlington Chidarara, a Harare-based environmental lawyer tweeted: “Sad loss for Zimbabwe as a nation. We cannot have a replacement to this gigantic think tank who was a fountain of knowledge. Nematambudziko mhuri yekwaMagaisa nekurasikirwa. Mkoma @Wamagaisa marwadzisa. Zororai murugare. Pamasiira tichasimudzira. #RIPWaMagaisa”

More tributes are still flowing in and none of the family members with provided contact detail had been able to furnish Spiked online Media with fresh details by the time of going to print.

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