Eusebius McKaiser Dies From Epileptic Seizure At 45
Eusebius McKaiser has died on Tuesday from a suspected epileptic seizure at the age of 45.
According to Jackie Strydom, his manager, McKaiser reportedly had an epileptic seizure. Numerous newspapers, including the New York Times, Mail & Guardian, Sunday Times, Sunday Independent, City Press, Newsweek International, and Financial Mail, regularly featured his analytical articles and columns.
McKaiser also presented on Interface on SABC3 and hosted chat programmes on Radio 702 and the chat at Nine Show. He was a vocal opponent of racism and a fervent supporter of the LGBT community.
On social media, South Africans expressed shock at his passing. The broadcaster was described as having “a brilliant mind” by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya.
Eusebius McKaiser biography and career
Eusebius McKaiser (was a South African political analyst, journalist, and broadcaster.[1][2] Among others, he wrote for the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Business Day, for which he wrote a weekly column.
In Grahamstown, Cape Province, where his working-class family resided in a coloured township, Eusebius McKaiser was born on March 28. He went to Graeme College, where he graduated in 1996, and St. Mary’s Primary School. He started attending Rhodes University in 1997 and earned a bachelor’s degree in law and philosophy, an honors degree, and a master’s degree in philosophy in 2003 with a thesis on moral objectivity.
He did it with distinction. He received a Rhodes Scholarship between 2005 and 2006[9] and studied at the University of Oxford, where he conducted unfinished PhD research in moral philosophy under the supervision of Ralph Wedgwood and John Broome. He was a scholar from the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust.
He started off as the host of Power Talk, a three-hour weekday morning talk show, when Power FM debuted on June 18, 2013.
He departed Power FM in October 2014, citing irreconcilable differences with the station, and returned to Radio 702 in July 2016, replacing Redi Thlabi with a weekday morning chat slot. The Mail & Guardian claims that by 2013, McKaiser had “etched himself on the national psyche” thanks to his radio work.
Later, Pumla Dineo Gqola claimed that his morning program on 702, the Eusebius McKaiser Show, “shaped everyday dialogue and, with it, the culture of our time,” and praised McKaiser’s “heartbreaking, illuminating, and often joyful intellectual work.”
