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Goodbye Annesley
Annesley Ferreira, former Sports Editor of The Sunday Times passed away on Friday after a brief illness and his remains were laid to rest at the Borella Cemetry (Catholic Section) yesterday.

Annesley cut his teeth into journalism at the Sun and in no time he became one of the top most sports journalists in the country. His specialty was covering swimming events. With the closing down of the Sun he joined The Sunday Times.

He continued to do his good work working with total dedication to meet the deadlines and very often left late in the night after finishing his work.
Subsequently he was appointed Sports Editor of The Sunday Times.

Annesley had a keen sense for sports news and often collected exclusive stories from his wide-range of contacts in the field. He wrote without fear or favour often earning the wrath of errant-officials. He was an early critic of several Sporting Bodies, the decline of which is there for all to see today.

But bad health dogged him towards the latter years and two years back he retired from active service contributing to The Sunday Times from home.
He leaves behind his wife Loretta and children Fiona, Marlon, Andreen and Wilabe.

May the turf lie lightly over him.

– Rangi Akbar

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