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Namibia: Veteran journalist and mentor Robert ‘Bob’ Mellis dies at 84 – News

Namibia: Veteran journalist and mentor Robert ‘Bob’ Mellis dies at 84 – News

Africa Links 24 with Puyeipawa Nakashole
Published on 2025-02-16 06:00:00

Veteran journalist, editor and mentor to many Robert Mellis, also known as ‘Bob’, has died at the age of 84.

Mellis died in the United States on 31 January after battling a series of health complications, his daughter Lynn Mellis Worthington confirmed yesterday.

Born in Inverness, Scotland, Mellis began his journalism career at The Scotsman, where he started as a ‘copy boy’, taking newspaper copy from one section of the paper to another, at the age of 19.

Worthington said…

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