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Alyce Chavunduka: Role model newsreader who led the way for …

Johannesburg - Alyce Chavunduka, the well-known former SABC television news anchor and presenter has died. She was only

Chavunduka died on Sunday in Johannesburg, a week after she suffered an epileptic seizure in her home.

She previously was involved in two serious car accidents, one of which she sustained in and which left her suffering from epileptic seizures.

Chavunduka was born in Zimbabwe; her father was Professor Gordon Chavunduka who served as vice-chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe.

Chavunduka made South African television history by becoming the first black female news anchor on the SABC's former "white" TV channel, TV1, alongside news readers Jane Hicks and Anand Naidoo.

She was just

Her career

In the same year, on 2 January , Chavunduka also became the first black female presenter of the SABC and TV1's then (only) morning breakfast show, Good Morning South Africa.

It was a meteoric rise for the Zimbabwean girl who at 12 became that country's youngest presen