International News Safety Institute

22 February 2009

Steve Dlamini

Incident

Steve Dlamini

Cause of death

Road accident

Details

The motoring editor of City Press newspaper Steve Dlamini was killed in a head-on collision on Sunday just before 11:00. 

Dlamini, 32, was on his way to the A1 Grand Prix when the accident happened on Allandale Road just outside the Kyalami race track.

Little detail is yet available about the crash but according to sources Dlamini, who was travelling on a motorbike, was passing a line of traffic when he crashed into a BMW which was busy making a u-turn.

Dlamini was killed instantly. He is survived by his wife, Berenice, and two children.

Dlamini still attended a Renault product launch with fellow motoring journalists on Saturday.

Wheels24 editor Wilmer Muller said on Sunday that Dlamini’s death is a shock and a loss to our industry.

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