Anna Majavu is an MPhil journalism student in the School of Communication Studies attached to AUT's Pacific Media Centre. She studied undergraduate journalism at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa in the 1990s and since then has worked as a journalist, subeditor, researcher, advocacy officer, legal advisor and publicist for organisations such as the South African Municipal Workers Union, South Durban Community Environmental Alliance and Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce,

Majavu's most recent fulltime journalist position was as the Sowetan newspaper's parliamentary correspondent in South Africa, between 2008 and 2011, where she broke many front page stories.