Veteran media Journalist Catherine Kasavuli Dead
Catherine Kasavuli, the Veteran Kenyan media journalist is dead after battling cervical cancer for a while
Catherine Kasavuli, the Veteran Kenyan media journalist is dead after battling cervical cancer for a while.
The KBC news anchor has been hospitalized at the Kenyatta National Hospital battling cervical cancer for a while.
Catherine Kasavuli made public her illness on November 7, appealing for a blood donation.
The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) Managing Director Samuel Maina confirmed that Kasavuli died while receiving treatment on Thursday, December 29.
She passed away at the Kenyatta National Hospital aged 60 years after a battle with cervical cancer.
“Kasavuli passed on yesterday night. Her death related to the cancer ailment that she’s been bravely fighting in the recent past,” Maina told the media.
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Kasavuli first made public her illness on November 7, appealing for an urgent blood donation.
In November, colleagues and friends in the media industry mobilized people to donate blood for urgent transfusion after she was admitted at the KNH.
In her last post on December 12, Catherine Kasavuli shared that she was visited by her nephew who had lost his mother to cancer, promising to fight the disease.
“Five years later it strikes again, but this time round, we are well prepared, courageous, optimistic, and thankful to every new day I get to hope courageously,” she wrote.
Kasavuli, who wears the crown of Kenya’s first female anchor had a stellar career spanning three decades. She began at KBC as a continuity announcer.
Her debut on TV was in 1985 before she was recruited to the team that idealized KTN, the first privately-owned TV station.
The veteran anchor also worked for Citizen TV before moving back to KBC when the station was relaunched in 2022.
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