Paul Nyathi|Veteran Zimbabwean writer Charles Mungoshi has died.

A family notice to the media indicates that Mungoshi died this morning at Chitungwiza hospital after a long illness.

He suffered a stroke in April 2010, which nearly paralysed him and pushed him into a two-month long comma and never fully recovered ever since.

Mungoshi married actress, Jesesi Mungoshi, who played the title role in the 1993 Zimbabwean film Neria which featured the late Oliver Mtukudzi.

Details are still coming through and ZimEye.com will be giving a full coverage of the sad passing on of the veteran writer in the course of the day.