Judy Croome born Judy-Ann Heinemann on 16 December 1958 is a South African novelist, short story writer, and poet, who was born in Zvishavane, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She received a Master of Arts (English) degree from the University of South Africa. She currently lives in Johannesburg. Croome was married to South African tax law scholar, Advocate
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell – better known as Roy Campbell 2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957 – was a South African poet, literary translator, war poet, and satirist. Born into a prominent White South African family of Scottish, Huguenot, and Scotch-Irish descent in Durban, Colony of Natal, Campbell was sent to the United Kingdom in the immediate aftermath of World War I. Although his family had intended
Max du Preez born 3 March 1951 is a South African author, columnist and documentary filmmaker and was the founding editor of Vrye Weekblad. Vrye Weekblad Online or Vrye Weekblad II was launched on 5 April 2019 again with Max du Preez as editor. Contents 1Beeld 2Vrye Weekblad 3Dismissal from the SABC 4“Womaniser” remark 5Awards 6Further
Aggrey Zola Klaaste 6 January 1940 – 19 June 2004 was a South African newspaper journalist and editor. He was best known for being editor of the Soweto-based newspaper, the Sowetan, from 1988 to 2002. He introduced the concept of “nation building” while editor of the Sowetan and spent much of his time and energy promoting
John Tengo Jabavu 11 January 1859 – 10 September 1921 was a political activist and the editor of South Africa’s first newspaper to be written in Xhosa. Contents 1Background 2References 3Sources 4External links Background In 1876, Jabavu took over editorship of the Isigidimi samaXhosa (“The Xhosa Messenger”), and by the early 1880s had become an important
Dirk Daniël Hammann, known as Niel Hammann born 6 September 1937, is a retired South African senior journalist. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Afrikaans weekly family magazine Huisgenoot and its sister publication You (English). Hammann took the helm at Huisgenoot in 1978. At that stage, as it is still today, the magazine was the oldest published Afrikaans
Laurence Owen Vine Gandar 28 January 1915 – 15 November 1998 was a South African journalist and newspaper editor. He is best known as an editor of South African newspaper The Rand Daily Mail. Contents 1Early life 2Career 3Honours 4Death 5References Early life Laurence Gandar was born on 28 January 1915 in Durban, Natal, South Africa. After high school,
Khanyi Dhlomo born 17 December 1972 is a South African journalist and magazine editor. Contents 1Early life 2Career 3Awards 4References 5External links Early life Dhlomo was born in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, the daughter of Oscar Dhlomo She went to school at Durban Girls’ College, in Durban, while there she won the Thandi Face Cover Girl competition at the age of
Frank Kojo Baffoe Jr. known as Kojo Baffoe is a writer, poet, blogger, media consultant (television and print), producer, columnist, editor of Destiny Man, and is currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Contents 1Early life 2Back to South Africa 3Poetry 3.1Poetry Performance 4Print and digital media 5See also 6References 7External links Early life Kojo was born 10 April 1972 in Munich,
Rachel Zadok is a South African writer and a Whitbread First Novel Award nominee (2005). She is the author of the novels Gem Squash Tokoloshe and Sister-Sister. Contents 1Life 2Works 3See also 4External links 5References Life Zadok was born in South Africa in 1972 to a South African mother and an Israeli father and grew up in Kensington, a white