Jones died of a heart attack on September 3 at his house in France
05 September 2023 - 22:43
by Denise Mhlanga
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Former Business Day editor Jim Jones, 81, died of a heart attack on September 3 at his house in France.
Jones worked for Business Day for 10 years from 1990, and before that he held a senior position at the Financial Mail.
He is survived by his wife and three children.
A friend of Jones for 40 years, Pat Sidley, said they met in the late 1970s while she was a cadet journalist at the Rand Daily Mail. She described Jones as a mystical person with a wonderful sense of humour, powerfully intelligent, nobody’s fool and with a surprisingly soft heart.
“Jim was the most well-read person I ever came across,” she said.
Former journalist Alan Fine said: “He was mischievous, but he never let anything get in the way of a factual story.”
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Former Business Day editor Jim Jones dies at 81
Jones died of a heart attack on September 3 at his house in France
Former Business Day editor Jim Jones, 81, died of a heart attack on September 3 at his house in France.
Jones worked for Business Day for 10 years from 1990, and before that he held a senior position at the Financial Mail.
He is survived by his wife and three children.
A friend of Jones for 40 years, Pat Sidley, said they met in the late 1970s while she was a cadet journalist at the Rand Daily Mail. She described Jones as a mystical person with a wonderful sense of humour, powerfully intelligent, nobody’s fool and with a surprisingly soft heart.
“Jim was the most well-read person I ever came across,” she said.
Former journalist Alan Fine said: “He was mischievous, but he never let anything get in the way of a factual story.”
mhlangad@businesslive.co.za
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