TRIBUTE: Former Mail editor remembered
She is bid a fond farewell by her much loved family and many friends.
Linda Harris, erstwhile editor of the Mid South Coast Mail, died peacefully in Scottburgh on Sunday, February 22.
She won a Caxton Award for investigative journalism, exposing wrongdoing in the late 1990s.
As editor, Linda once spent three days and two nights in a pen containing 42 adult crocodiles, to raise funds for one charity, and was voluntarily ‘locked’ in jail to raise publicity for another.
Apart from writing, Linda was enormously talented. She was a fabulous artist and exhibited many paintings.
She had a beautiful voice, was a trained opera singer, performed in numerous plays, and even had a brief part in one of South Africa’s first movies.
Latterly, Linda was also involved in many stage productions and concerts at Umdoni Retirement Village, where she encouraged seniors to take to the stage. Before that, she also managed to get the “in crowd” at Scottburgh High School on stage, as well as hardcore lifesavers, who tripped the light fantastic in tutus.
Linda and her late husband Keith, undertook many 4×4 travels into Africa, once camping up as far as Ethiopia. They instilled their sense of adventure into their children who have all travelled extensively.
Linda is survived by her three children, Bryan, Tony and Sandy, and their respective spouses Carol, Lindsay and Geoff, eight grandchildren, and a beautiful great grand-daughter who arrived last year.
She fought a tough battle after a cancer diagnosis in 2019.
She is bid a fond farewell by her much loved family and many friends.
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