RIP Brendan Boyle

NEWSWATCH: Veteran journalist and editor Brendan Boyle passed away on Sunday night, according to a report on Times Live.

Former editor of the Daily Dispatch, bureau chief of Reuters South Africa and past executive editor of the Sunday Times, Boyle was apparently diagnosed with cancer about 18 months ago, according to a tweet by member of Parliament Corné Mulder.

#RIP BrendanBoyle This sad news just landed. Brendan Boyle, past Reuter’s Bureau Chief, member of the PGA exco, Daily Dispatch editor, and Sunday Times associate editor has passed away. He was suffering from cancer, which was diagnosed about 18 months ago. pic.twitter.com/FzamHnB4by
— Corné_Mulder (@MulderCorn) February 11, 2019

He had a long-spanning career in the media industry and worked as a parliamentary correspondent for Reuters before he was promoted to head the agency's South African bureau.

Boyle also reportedly sent his CV as part of an application for a Democratic Alliance MP post after leaving the newspaper industry. The application was later withdrawn and Boyle continued to worked as a policy researcher, particularly on land issues.

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