Former Radio 3 DJ George (GM) Munetsi says he is alive and well.
This follows reports over the weekend that the Roller Skating Jam presenter as he is known on radio had passed on.
Apparently, it was another socialite with the same name who had collapsed and died at the weekend.
And coincidentally the radio presenter was on air on Capitalk 100.4FM on the now popular Flowtyme Radio Sunday Takeover between 10am and 11am where she features alongside other sought-after DJs in the likes of Donald the Main Attraction and Otis The Flow Fraser.
Senior journalist John Masuku who once worked with George Munetsi also reached to him and confirmed he was still kicking.
In a post on his official Faceboook page called Catching up with DJ George Munetsi Masuku wrote:
“My fellow broadcaster George Munetsi (Bhiza) formerly of Radio 3 (Power FM) and Kaya FM is alive and well contrary to yesterday’s social media false claims about his passing on.
“I called George this morning at his South African base and he rubbished the falsehoods saying “Ngiyaphila bhudi wami.Unjani wena?”
“Thereafter I linked him up with London-based John Matinde former Head of Radio 3 who had contacted me equally disturbed with yesterday’s social media news.
“George is also the Shona vocalist in one of Bulelwa Mkutukana aka Zahara’s popular hit song ‘Incwad’ encane’,” he wrote.
“On many occasions I used to visit him at Kaya FM-The home of Afropolitan in Johannesburg were he worked on different shifts before retirement to run a private online entity called Radio BOP-not at all linked with defunct popular Radio “Bophuthatswana of the homelands and apartheid era.
Radio BOP- Beats Of Pleasure, Beats Of The People
“George a former ZRP police officer once served in the peacekeeping forces during the civil war in Angola. For many years he worked as a part time DJ at Radio 3, Pockets Hill.
“I was Controller: Radio Services in overall charge of the four national radio stations. We grew up in the same Engineering Lines neighbourhood, Highfield in the early 1960s before his family relocated to New Canaan.
“I was in the same class with his late brother Aaron Bhiza at primary school and at Highfield Secondary School. George was classmates with my brother Muhle Masuku as well as former senior police commissioner Albert Mandizha who later became the Chief Executive Officer of the Grain Marketing Board (GMB).
“I last met George at Radio Days Africa at Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg a few years ago where he interviewed me live on KayaFM about the goings on at the annual radio forum directed by Tim Zunckel on behalf of the Wits Journalism Department.”
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