- Barry Streek
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name = Barry Streek
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caption = "Barry Streek" (on the right) shaking hands with then presidentNelson Mandela .
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birthdate = birth date|1948|8|30
birthplace =Port Elizabeth ,South Africa
deathdate = death date and age|2006|7|21|1948|8|30|mf=y
deathplace =Cape Town ,South Africa
occupation = Journalist, Author, Parliamentary Media Manager
nationality = South African
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genre = Non-fiction
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website =Barry Streek (
August 30 1948 –July 21 2006 ) was aSouth Africa n political journalist and anti-apartheid activist.Barry Streek was educated at
Michaelhouse and then studied journalism atRhodes University inGrahamstown from 1967 to 1970. In Rhodes he joined the anti-apartheidNational Union of South African Students and was involved in many anti-apartheid activities in the university for which the then South African government put a banning order on him. It was reveled in later years that the secret police, with direct assistance from the university, had compiled a substantial file on Streek's anti-apartheid activities.In 1984 he founded the
Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT), a non-profit organisation that works to assist and help develop poor rural communities in South Africa.25 years of Streek's long career as a political journalist was spent in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in
Cape Town . He became Parliament's media manager in 2001 before returning to the press gallery as a correspondent for theMail & Guardian newspaper. After which he became editor-in-chief for publishing houseJonathan Ball .He died of
cancer in 2006. In March 2006 SCAT renamed SCAT House, the organisation's head quarters in Cape Town city center, Barry Streek House and initiated a series of awards in honour of him.It is known that at the time of his death he was working on biographical book on the life and times of
Sir David Graaff, 1st Baronet .List of books
*cite book
year = 1981
title = Render Unto Kaiser: A Transkei Dossier
publisher =Ravan Press
id = ISBN-10: 0869752065
*cite book
year = 1984
title = The Rural Crisis in South Africa: Some Issues
publisher = SALDRU, School of Economics,University of Cape Town
id = ISBN 0-7992-0840-XReferences
*Mail & Guardian: [http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=278367&area=/obituaries/]
*Rhodes University News: [http://www.ru.ac.za/news/wordpress/archives/100]
*SCAT: [http://www.scat.org.za/downloads/1168582893_scat_ar05.pdf]
*Cape Times: [http://www.capetimes.co.za/general/print_article.php?fArticleId=3236880&fSectionId=279&fSetId=520]
*African Sociological Review (CODESRIA); 9,1,2005 [http://www.codesria.org/Links/Publications/asr_9_1_2005.pdf]
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