Editor Piet Rampedi said the veteran journalist literally took him by the hand and helped guide him to lead the Capital City's paper.
Pretoria - The Pretoria News family will always remember former editor Valerie Boje as an exceptional editor, mentor, friend, mother and the go-to social worker to everyone who walked through the newsroom doors.
Those were the few words that long term colleagues and the executive leadership of the Pretoria News, used to describe Boje and her contribution to the newsroom during their visit to her Garsfontein home earlier today. Pretoria News Editor Piet Rampedi alongside executive editor Kennedy Mudzuli and a handful of colleagues visited the family to officially pay their last respects to the paper's longest-serving editor.
Speaking of his own journey working alongside Boje since joining Independent Media in 2011 and taking over the baton earlier this year, Rampedi said the veteran journalist literally took him by the hand and helped guide him to lead the Capital City's paper."We want to say to the family your loss is our loss. Professionally I was still looking forward to her mentorship which she had dutifully played for the past six months.
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