There was a hushed shock about the mourners at Jeremy Gordin’s funeral as we walked up, up, up to the edges of the old Westpark Cemetery, where it skirts the Melville Koppies, to bury him on Wednesday, April 5.
Gruff, pugnacious, broad-chested and bearded, with a barrelling gait, he could be mistaken on the newsroom floor for an old merchant mariner, but his bark was far worse than his bite, and concealed a depth of compassion and a keen affinity with the underdog and a passion to right injustice.
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