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OBITUARY

Award-winning journalist Marcelo Zlotogwiazda dies aged 61

Yesterday 23:56 Tributes pour in from fellow journalists and politicians from across the spectrum, after writer, economist and reporter dies after losing battle against colon cancer.

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Ex-Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe dies in Singapore aged 95

06-09-2019 09:31 Mugabe enjoyed strong support after taking over as prime minister and Zimbabwe's first post-colonial leader. But he was reviled in later years as the economy collapsed and human rights violations increased.

FOOTBALL

1986 World Cup winner 'Tata' Brown dead aged 62

13-08-2019 09:39 Known to his friends as 'Tata,' Brown made 36 appearances for Argentina and scored the first goal in their 3-2 World Cup final victory over West Germany in 1986.

MORRISON

Pioneering US writer Toni Morrison dies at 88

06-08-2019 14:00 Morrison, a Nobel laureate and author of "Beloved" and "Sula," died Monday night in New York after a brief illness.

María Auxiliadora Delgado

Uruguayan First Lady María Auxiliadora Delgado dies aged 82

31-07-2019 14:03 María Auxiliadora Delgado and Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez had been married since 1964.

OBITUARY

Former president Fernando De la Rúa dies at 81

09-07-2019 10:58 Former president, who served from 1999 to December 2001 and infamously fled office from the Casa Rosada by helicopter, dies of cardiac arrest and other complications in Buenos Aires.

OBITUARY

History, humour and humility: Remembering Andrew Graham-Yooll

06-07-2019 22:07 Respected, influential and talented writer and journalist, whose experiences with Argentina’s brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship he shared with the world, has died in London aged 75.

by James Grainger

Loss of a legend

World Cup-winning footballer René Houseman dies at 64

22-03-2018 15:58 The Selección great, who played in both the 1974 and 1978 World Cups, was a daring dribbler and winger, who was known as 'El Loco.'