Dudley Saunders, renowned South African cameraman (45), died on 31 December
2013 while filming in Soweto, Johannesburg.
According to news sources, the veteran filmmaker was shooting cut-away footage
for British company Arrow Media’s production of World’s Most Extreme when he
was hit by a train.
Saunders had an illustrious career spanning more than two decades and worked
extensively for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on the
investigative journalism programmes Special Assignment and 3rd Degree; as well
as Carte Blanche, the long-running magazine show on pay channel M-Net on DStv.
Busisiwe Ntuli, executive producer of Special Assignment, said: “The son of SABC
journalist Cliff Saunders, and already an SABC news veteran in his 20s, Dudley was
one of the principal cameramen for Special Assignment from its inception in 1998.
The love and respect he showed both for his craft and colleagues was exemplary
and he was dedicated as much to the joy of life, as he was to the discipline of
work.’
