'Dinner With Mugabe' author dies at 64

Police say author Heidi Holland, who chronicled the rise of President Robert Mugabe, has been found dead. She was 64.

Lieutenant Colonel Katlego Mogale said a gardener found Holland's body at her home in Melville, a suburb of Johannesburg, on Saturday.

Mogale said it appeared Holland had killed herself and there were no signs of foul play or a robbery.

Holland wrote the 2008 book Dinner With Mugabe, which included her interviews with friends and family members of Zimbabwe's president. The book also includes her interviews with Mugabe, once as a freedom fighter, then later as president after years of unrest in his nation.

Holland had been published in a number of newspapers as a freelance journalist and had an occasional column with Johannesburg newspaper The Star.

She also recently published a book on the ANC's history: 100 Years of Struggle - Mandela's ANC

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