Arthur Goldstuck

Arthur Goldstuck born 1959 is a South African journalist, media analyst and commentator on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Internet and mobile communications and technologies. Contents   1Life 2Published books 3References 4External links Life Arthur Goldstuck was born and raised in Trompsburg, Free State, South Africa and resides in Johannesburg, South Africa. Goldstuck led early research into the size

Frene Ginwala

Frene Noshir Ginwala born 25 April 1932 is a South African journalist and politician who was the Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa from 1994 to 2004. Ginwala is an Indian South African from the Parsi-Indian community of western India. She studied for a DPhil at Linacre College, Oxford. Ginwala was appointed as the first chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in April 2005. She is one

John Charles Daly

John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991, generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly, was a South African-born American radio and television personality, CBS News broadcast journalist, ABC News executive and TV anchor and a game show host, best known as the host and moderator of the CBS television panel show What’s My Line? In World War

Robyn Curnow

Robyn Curnow is a South African journalist and news anchor. She currently anchors CNN Newsroom at 6 pm and 7 am on Friday. During the coronavirus pandemic, she has also anchored the program at 2 am. The program is a fast-moving news show that showcases CNN’s global reach by going live to CNN’s reporters around the world and tracks

George Claassen

George Claassen is a South African journalist who was the head of department of journalism at Pretoria Technikon and Stellenbosch University. Claassen was the first academic in the field of journalism to develop a course in science and technology journalism and can rightly be called the “father of science communication in Africa” In 1997 he developed and established the

Jani Allan

Jani Allan born 11 September 1952 is a South African journalist, columnist, writer and broadcaster. She became one of the country’s first media celebrities in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1980, Allan became a columnist for the centrist newspaper, the Sunday Times, South Africa’s biggest-circulating weekly newspaper. She was the newspaper’s best-read columnist over the next decade, publishing

Stephen Watson (poet)

Stephen Watson 6 November 1954 – 10 April 2011 was a South African poet. Most of his poetry is about the city of Cape Town, where he lived most of his life. He was a professor in English at the University of Cape Town. He was also the Director of the Writing Centre there, and one of

N. P. van Wyk Louw

XNicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw 11 June 1906 in Sutherland, formerly Cape Province, now Northern Cape Province in South Africa – 18 June 1970 in Johannesburg, almost universally known as N.P. van Wyk Louw, was an Afrikaans-language poet, playwright and scholar. He was the older brother of Afrikaans-language poet W.E.G. Louw. One of the Dertigers, or “Writers of the

Thomas Pringle

Thomas Pringle 5 January 1789 – 5 December 1834 was a Scottish writer, poet and abolitionist. Known as the father of South African poetry, he was the first successful English language poet and author to describe South Africa’s scenery, native peoples, and living conditions. Contents   1Life 2Books 3Sources 4Notes 5References 6External links Life Born

Eugène Marais

Eugène Nielen Marais /ˈjuːdʒiːn mɑːˈreɪ/; 9 January 1871 – 29 March 1936 was a South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer. He has been hailed as an intellectual genius and an Afrikaner hero. Contents   1His early years, before and during the Boer War 2After the war 3Theft of his work 4Death 5Legacy 6Die Wonderwerker 7Cultural