Alec Hogg is the editor of Moneyweb.

Amanda Patterson is the CEO, and founder, of Writers Write. She has written three novels, a memoir, a non-fiction writer’s diary and 17 writing courses. 20 000 fans, friends and group members follow her on Facebook and Twitter. She is also the ...

Barbara Cooke was the general manager of research and marketing at National Magazines, the magazine division of the Nasionale Pers Publishing Group (now Media24) for over 13 years. She was also the director of research and planning at J. Walter Thompson ...

Beth Shirley is currently the account manager at Stone
Soup. Before this she wrote prolifically for numerous publications.
She likes media matters, coffee, current affairs, books and cats.

Caroline is writer, proofreader and editor. She has over nine years experience as a copywriter, the last two as a full time freelancer. She is one half of the team behind The Word Station, a writing and communications service provider ...

Caroline Hurry is editor-in-chief of Travelwrite (www.travelwrite.co.za) and the only South African to have won the Tourism Authority of Thailand Award for International Media Reporting beating writers from 57 countries. She has 30 years experience in writing and editing ...

After studying languages at UCT and law at UNISA and Cambridge, Caryn Gootkin practised as a lawyer for nine years before realising that her true passion was for words and the way they are used and abused. She has recently ...

Celia Fleming is based in Cape Town and is a freelance business writer and editor specialising in marketing copy for the financial services industry. She also edits books and has a keen interest in education, having once been a teacher ...

Charisse White joined Provantage in 2006 as national campaign manager. She has been involved in hundreds of experiential marketing campaigns all over the country and can tell you a thing or two about campaigns that really engage with the target audience. ...

Chris started his life in media when he was a student at the University of the Free State. He ran the local campus radio station (RSFM) and was the proud presenter of the sport show. When The MediaShop won the ...

Damon Freeman is the Design Director of Brand inc Sport, a dedicated sports design and advertising division of the Brand inc Creative Group (www.brandinc.co.za). He has ten years experience in sports-related advertising and design, and is passionate ...

After more than 40 years in sports journalism and broadcasting, Dan Retief took time out and has just completed a book about his experiences covering the Springboks in the Rugby World Cup. He expects The Springboks and the Holy Grail to ...

Daniel Munslow is a director at Talk2Us and strategist, trainer and facilitator. He works closely with clients to develop their leaders' communication, review stakeholder engagement practices, enhance internal communication methodologies, measure employee engagement, and align group communication strategies between ...

According to his Twitter profile, David Bullard is SA's best loved celebrity racist. He has one final ambition in life...to become Julius Malema's valet.

Desmond Thompson has 12 years’ experience in the media – as Nairobi Bureau Chief of Media24 Newspapers, Managing Editor of Adam and Drum East Africa (Kenyan magazines), Senior Reporter with Beeld and Senior Researcher with Carte Blanche, and as a sub-editor with ...

As managing director of Acceleration Media, Diane Charton oversees the growth of South Africa's leading strategic digital media strategy, planning and buying consultancy, and helps clients to maximise their use of the Internet. She brings extensive sales, marketing and management ...

Dion Chang is an innovator, creative thinker and visionary. He is a sought-after trend analyst, and while his feet remain firmly planted on African soil, he uses a global perspective to source new ideas, gauge the zeitgeist and identify cutting ...

Dominique joined Text 100 in August 2003 as an account manager and, in February 2004, she joined the onsite Microsoft team and was promoted to account director. She returned to the agency in September 2006 when she was promoted to managing consultant. Dominique holds ...

Donna Rachelson, a branding and marketing innovator, is focused on South Africa's client service based businesses. She combines her contagious passion and 25 years' experience in strategy, marketing and change management to empower people, teams and businesses to achieve breakthrough results. ...

Blade Nzimande is the Minister of Higher Education and Training of South Africa. Nzimande served as director of the Education Policy Unit at the University of Natal. He is a member of the African National Congress and has served as ...

Duncan Guy is editor and founder of the South African Press Association's education newspaper Learn the News. He has been in journalism for 28 years in a career that has involved the newspaper, magazine, radio, television and internet mediums. The highlight ...

Elizabeth Joss is owner of Connect Write ~ Creating Inspiring Copy ~ (www.connectwrite.co.za), a copywriting and proofreading service in the Cape Town region. She is also a member of the Southern African Freelancers Association (Safrea).
Email: connectwrite@gmail.com
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Erica Webster is an independent writer, wife, mother of two girls and caretaker of three dogs, five cats and ten goldfish. Over the past 15-odd (very odd) years, she has written features for numerous publications, most notably Business Day and ...

Eugene Yiga is a writer, consultant, and coach based in Cape Town, South Africa. He covers personal development, lifestyle, entertainment, marketing, media, culture, and current affairs. Oh, and he's on a quest to read the 100 greatest books of all time ...

Evelyn Holtzhausen is CEO of HWB Communications in Cape Town.A former assistant editor of the Cape Times, he launched HWB with PR professional, Ann Wallis Brown, and specialises in crisis communicatio

Franz Kruger teaches journalism at Wits University, specialising in radio and ethics. He is the director of the Wits Radio Academy. He has worked in print and broadcasting in South Africa, Namibia and the UK. He was founding group editor ...

Gill Randall is Joint Managing Director of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau (NAB). The Newspaper Advertising Bureau – a division of Caxton & CTP Publishers & Printers – is responsible for the advertising, sales and marketing and administration of 150 community newspapers in South ...

Glenda Nevill is the editor of www.themediaonline.co.za
She is also a writer, communicator, media strategist, dog walker, mother, drinker of copious amounts of champagne, worshipper of Burmese cats. Loves rugby and beach walks. Hates bad grammar and ...

Africa's oldest surviving media strategist. Author of Media Planning - Art or Science. Mostly harmless!

With over 25 years experience in the media industry, Gordon Patterson is Group Managing Director of The Starcom MediaVest Group and an active and outspoken media professional well-known for his passion for insight/strategy and creativity. He is currently deputy president ...

Grant Cyster is a freelance media provider and South African Freelancers' Association member specializing in the provision of professional writing and voice over services. His intrigue with the English language began at age 7 when he correctly spelled the word “badge” ...

One of South Africa's most experienced business, technology and lifestyle journalists. Worked for National Geographic, the Sunday Times, Business Day newspaper, the Financial Mail, Mail & Guardian, London Financial Times and others. Owner of The Media List, South Africa's premier ...

Professor Guy Berger is the new UNESCO Director of Freedom of Expression and Media Development. The Director of Freedom of Expression and Media Development at UNESCO is a job with a global remit, which will challenge Prof Berger to learn ...

Prior to entering politics, Helen made a name for herself during the apartheid era as a political journalist. She joined the party in the mid-1990s. Helen served in the Western Cape provincial legislature between 1999 and 2004 (including as MEC for ...

Howard Thomas has worked in the entertainment industry in South Africa for nearly 40 years. He is an award-winning TV producer, and has worked in radio, theatre, film, magazine and interactive media. He has been writing about the industry for over 10 ...

Irna van Zyl founded New Media Publishing (NMP) 12 years ago following an award winning newspaper career. NMP publishes titles such as Visi, Eat In, Eat Out and various custom publications. Van Zyl cites being appointed as the first female chief ...

Isis joined InMobi in February 2011 to lead business expansion in Africa. With over nine years of business development, marketing and sales experience, Isis is responsible for the overall growth on the continent.
Isis joins InMobi from Google where she led ...

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Professor Jane Duncan is Highway Africa Chair of Media and Information Society, School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University. Jane is a prominent media activist and former executive director of the Freedom of Expression Institute. She has three ...

With 24 years of experience in mainstream print and broadcasting media as a South African journalist, Janine Lazarus focuses her Media Training Consultancy on developing and facilitating superior and interactive training experiences that leave delegates with confidence and knowledge to engage ...

Janine Stephen is an independent journalist and editor with both newspaper and magazine experience. She has written for titles ranging from the Sunday Times and the late-lamented Weekender to Art South Africa, Marie Claire and Horizons. Magazine experience includes a ...

Janine is a Senior Associate in Bowman Gilfillan’s Intellectual Property Department. She obtained her LLB degree from the University of Kwazulu Natal in 2004. She was admitted as attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2007 and is a ...

Deputy Minister of Transport since 2009. Member of Parliament since 1999; and Deputy General-Secretary of the SA Communist Party since 1995. Cronin was politically improsoned for seven years (1976-1983) at Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, and Cronin's first poems collection, Inside (1983), reflects on this. ...

John Ginsberg is chief marketing geek at Ensight in the UK. The Ensight eCRM Suite integrates web, mobile, social and email marketing – fused perfectly with a comprehensive audience profiling engine. You can manage these channels through one intuitive, easy-to-use interface ...

on Foster-Pedley is the Dean and director of Henley Business School South Africa, a school of Henley Business School UK. With his team, and in close collaboration with Henley Business School in the UK and its parent the University of ...

Dr Julie Reid is based at the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa (Unisa). She is a media analyst and her research interests include semiotics, myth, identity politics, media policy and regulation, as well as media ...

HaveYouHeard is South Africa's first specialist Word-of-Mouth Marketing agency. Owned and operated by Jason Stewart and Ryan McFadyen, the agency believes strongly in the value of an honest recommendation (from a trusted friend), which has led them to build a ...

Rachel Irvine is the Managing Director of Irvine Bartlett, one of the most sought after marketing and public relations firms in South Africa.
She has more than 15 years experience working as a communications professional. She spent the first years of ...

Rachelle Jaques became Sales Manager of The Media Connection in November 2010. She provides a sales and administration function for radio and TV stations that have limited experience with, and access to, the national advertising industry in South Africa.

Prior to ...

Connector, businessman, lobbyist, propagandist, strategist and media trainer. Follow him on Twitter @Mr_Kingmaker.

Raymond Joseph is a journalist, media strategist, newsroom consultant, and journalism trainer.

After completing his degree and Archeology and International Politics from the University of Cape Town. In 2003 Rick joined TBWA as MD of TBWA\G1 looking after the Nissan Business. In 2006 he took over responsibility for TBWA’s Africa operations. His ...

Rivak Bunce is the managing director of United Stations, or, as he calls himself, the 'chief mission controller'. United Stations is a specialist RADIO sales house. We use our distinctive method of marketing and selling RADIO to maximise the revenue ...

Robert teaches economics journalism, media histories, media law and ethics and media economics. He has published in the fields of media law and journalism practice, and is working on his Phd, a social and political history of South Africa’s ...

Robert Mahoney is CPJ’s deputy director. He has worked as a reporter, editor, and bureau chief for Reuters throughout the world. Mahoney has led CPJ missions to global hot spots from Iraq to Sri Lan

Robin founded Open Mind Strategy in 2010 to provide marketers with strategic insights that provide a foundation for brand building. Recent assignments have included projects for Yahoo!, The Food Network, Travel Channel, VNSNY, PBM, USA, USA Today, several non-profits and advertising ...

Roxanne Reid is a freelance writer, blogger, editor and proof-reader based in Cape Town. Winner of about a dozen Pica Awards for editing and journalism, she has been happily her own boss for 13 years. She has edited and proofread books ...

When it comes to mobile, Ryan Gandalf van Jaarsveld’s got the passion, the drive and years of experience in the industry under his belt. He cut his teeth in companies like Wizzit bank (SA’s first mobile bank), and ...

Ryland Fisher is a former Editor of the Cape Times and has more than 30 years of experience in the media industry. He has served several newspapers in senior positions, among them the Sunday Times where he was assistant editor. He ...

Karl Reed kicked off his working career as a Contact Centre Agent at Multichoice, with great perseverance he worked himself up to Supervisor and later became the National Trainer for the DSTV product launch. He then moved on to become ...

Landi Groenewald heads up Online Reputation Management and Social Media at digiVOX. Having a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing coupled with a Bachelor’s Degree in Drama, Landi understands brand communication and media monitoring. Landi is an avid performer and ...

Creating digital strategies for engaging and building audiences, understanding the impact of digital trends on making media and business, devising content strategies for websites, online reputation tracking and management, creative thinking, writing, editing, teaching, managing projects, and maintaining a sense ...

Louis Eksteen is managing director of Twisted Toast Digital (Pty) Ltd

On 1 April 2011 Louis Eksteen launched South Africa's first full service owned media, brand content and strategy agency with long-term business partner Kim Browne as Chief Executive Officer, Erik Verster (...

Lyn Davis, marketing director and co-owner of PocketMedia® Solutions and Z-CARD® Africa, India, Middle East and Turkey (ZAMI) has spent numerous successful years in marketing. Her research of the African market continually ensures new growth for the company, with offices ...

When you ask Lynn Madeley where she comes from, she says she is not sure, not because she has amnesia but because she has lived on four continents and in seven countries. She has been in South Africa since 2004 and ...

Megan Hall has been publishing dictionaries for Oxford University Press Southern Africa since 2003, including the winners of two prestigious awards and a new edition of the best-selling South African dictionary. In her private capacity, she won the Ingrid Jonker Prize ...

Melany Bendix is the editor of The Big Issue South Africa.

Michael Schmidt is the executive director for Institute for the Advancement of Journalism.

Professional name-dropper. South African in NYC who collects interviews, concert ticket stubs & air-miles for a living. Also known as Journalist.

Niki Moore has freelanced for most of her working career and can’t even conceive of working office hours ever again. With a background in journalism, broadcasting, media production, PR, marketing, project management and communications consulting, she finds the job ...

Odette van der Haar is CEO of the Association for Communication and AdvertisingThe ACA is the recognised industry body and self-regulator of the South African advertising and communications profession representing approximately 100 agencies that contribute approximately 95% of total ad spend in ...

Some people can bend it like Beckham. Others write best-selling novels or paint coveted masterpieces. People make fortunes in thousands of different ways. Living saints take long walks to freedom.
Me? I’m the wild card. My brain is wired ...

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My name is Palesa Mokomele and I grew up in Nyanga in Cape Town. After high school at Immaculata Girls High I went to UCT where I studied a BA degree in Film Studies and Media and Writing. I fell ...

Winner of more than 40 journalism awards, including MPA/Mondi Premier Award for Magazine Journalism (twice); Sanlam Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism (four times); Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year; Vodacom Journalist of the Year (print feature); Checkers Consumer Journalist ...

Paul has worked in publishing for over thirty years alongside some of the best talent on top magazines; working up-market, middle-market and down-market; on publications aimed at men, those aimed at women, and at executive level on the world's leading ...

Awarded as the first black Mr South Africa in 1994, Paul Phume is a recognised public figure, modelling for commercials such as Sales House, Telkom and Appeltiser in the 90s. He established a marketing agency titled Blackmagic Communications in 1996 while branching ...

Paula Fray has worked in media for over 22 years ­ the last four in the field of media training and development. She is currently the Regional Director for IPS Africa, with management responsibilities for the news
service and related media and ...

Peta Krost Maunder is editor of The Media magazine.

PLAYBOY SA Editor-in-chief Peter Piegl cut his professional teeth as a photojournalist and earned his stripes as picture editor for men’s glossy FHM in 1999, becoming the magazine’s Managing Editor in 2007. Piegl, who holds a B.A degree from ...

Peter Stewart is Managing Director of leading South African search and conversion agency, Clickthinking. Clickthinking enjoys global accreditation with Google, Omniture and ClickTale. Amongst the many awards it has garnered are included several awards at the New York Webbys in 2009 ...

Dr Pieter Streicher graduated from WITS with a BSc-Eng(Civil) in 1991 and he received his PhD from UCT in 1996. After working as a civil engineer at HHO Africa, Dr Streicher, along with Richard Simpson, (BSc-Eng(Civil), MBA), established Celerity Systems ...

Prince Ndlovu is a junior media strategist at Starcom MediaVest.

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teven Friedman is a political scientist whose has specialised in the study of democracy. During the 1980s, he produced a series of studies of reform apartheid and its implications for a democratic future. He researched and wrote widely on the ...

Sam Sole is managing partner of the M&G's investigative unit, amaBhungane. Sam has been a journalist since 1986. He has worked for the investigative magazine Noseweek, served as political editor of the Sunday Tribune, and joined the Mail & ...

Newsletter Editor at The Writer's College
Blogger at SA Writers College
Junior Lecturer and Teaching Assistant at University of Pretoria

Watt Communications is an owner run and managed PR, integrated marketing and communications agency. Watt Communications has a 18 year pedigree in public relations and specialises in the information technology sector. Sister company to design-arm G Watt Design, the agency provides ...

San Reddy is the MD of award-winning PR agency marcusbrewster (www.marcusbrewster.com). A former journalist and broadcaster, Reddy advises the firm’s top commercial and corporate clients on PR strategy, reputation management, crisis communication, public affairs and media training. ...

Sandra Gordon is the CEO of the Iconic Group of companies, which includes several print and online publications covering the marketing and media industries, including TheMediaOnline and The Media magazine. She has wide experience in media, marketing, advertising and public ...

Stephen Grootes is a reporter with Eyewitness News.

Tamara is a freelance writer based in Johannesburg. She is passionate about exploring great stories and enjoys the variety that freelancing offers. She has worked in advertising, public relations, copy writing and journalism, tackling a broad range of subjects from ...

Tom Eaton lives in Cape Town, and is the author of 'The De Villiers Code', 'Texas' and 'The Wading', and was a columnist with the Mail&Guardian for four years. He was co-founder and head writers of satire webstie ...

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Tracy Foulkes is regularly featured in numerous magazines, newspapers, on TV and radio. ...

Tshepo Moletsane is an expert in the field of Communication Science, having been involved in most of the media disciplines from branding, media sales, account management, research and development, brand marketing management and radio presenting over the past 10 years. He ...

Warren Moss is the founder of Demographica (www.demographica.co.za ), South Africa's largest digital email advertising company; they make use of email marketing as a way of branding, marketing, advertising, customer acquisition and sales.
As a natural born entrepreneur, ...

Yazeed started his career at a daily newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa, and has since worked as an editor of a national newspaper for teenagers, a freelance writer for various magazines and newspapers as well as Internet publications.

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Yusuf Abramjee is head of news and current affairs at Primedia Broadcasting, as well as heading the company's Crime Line project. He is also chairman of the National Press Club.

Zwelinzima Vavi is secretary general of COSATU, South Africa's major trade union organisation.