Dear Reader,
As you may have heard or read by now Jeremy Gordin was murdered in his home in Parkview, Johannesburg, on early Saturday morning. The house was ransacked, and his car and other items taken. He was alone at home, as his wife Deborah was in Cape Town at the time.
Jeremy first started writing for Politicsweb in 2009, two years after the publication’s founding, and contributed columns and articles regularly since then, including through his time at the Wits Justice Project where he fought for the release of Fusi Mofokeng and Tshokolo Mokoena. His only sustained sabbatical was during the period he went off to run the Daily Sun newspaper. Since 2020 he was back to writing a regular weekly Thursday column for us.
These articles and columns over the years speak for themselves. Throughout the existence of Politicsweb as an independent publication, and through some very trying times, Jeremy was also always a rock of moral support.
He was a great intellectual companion when it came to researching some of the great unsolved mysteries of our history, and a committed fellow of the Society for the Pursuit of the World’s Most Unpopular Causes.
Our latest campaign, as discussed on Thursday evening after he had filed his column, was to be in defence of the honour and good name of the long-besieged residents of the Johannesburg Northern suburbs. By Saturday morning he was dead.