Ferial Haffajee

Ferial Haffajee

Ferial Haffajee is the editor of the Mail & Guardian newspaper and was the first black woman editor of a major newspaper in South Africa.

Early career

Haffajee was a cub reporter at the Mail & Guardian and has acted as its associate editor, media editor and economics writer at various times. Before taking up the editorship she held jobs at state broadcaster the SABC, as a radio producer and television reporter [cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1318_africa_radio_aw/page12.shtml|title=The Africa Radio Awards|publisher=BBC|accessdate=5 July|accessyear=2008] , and at the Financial Mail magazine, where she was a senior editor responsible for political coverage and the managing editor. [cite web|url=http://www.theglobalist.com/dbweb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=876|title=Biography of Ferial Haffajee|publisher=The Globalist|accessdate=5 July|accessyear=2008]

Mail & Guardian editorship

Haffajee was appointed editor of the Mail & Guardian in February 2004 [cite web|url=http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=139&art_id=qw1074165121483B253&set_id=1|title=New editor for the Mail and Guardian|publisher=Independent Online|accessdate=5 July|accessyear=2008] , two years after control of the paper was acquired by Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube. [cite web|url=http://www.news24.com/News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_1251903,00.html|title=Barrell to leave M&G|publisher=News24|accessdate=5 July|accessyear=2008] In 2005 the paper became one of the few publications, after the regime change of 1994, interdicted from publishing specific stories [cite web|url=http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050527062404848C272388|title=Fact or fiction, this paper has been pulped|accessdate=5 July|accessyear=2008] . In 2006 the paper was again interdicted, and Haffajee threatened, after republishing controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4685040.stm|title=SA editor threatened over cartoon|publisher=BBC|accessdate=5 July|accessyear=2008]

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