South African women journalists

The list South African women journalists includes Lara Logan, Nicola Formby, Jani Allan, Charlene Leonora Smith and Paula Slier. The list consists of 35 members and 2 sublists.

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Lara Logan

South African journalist and war correspondent

Overview: Lara Logan (born 29 March 1971) is a South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent. She was a correspondent for CBS News between 2002 and 2018. In 2019, she joined the Sinclair B ...

Date of birth: 29 March 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Joe Burkett (Married)

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Women war correspondents 111T

South African war correspondents 6T

University of Natal alumni 118T
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Nicola Formby

South African model, actress and journalist

Overview: Nicola Elizabeth Formby (born 22 April 1965) is a South African journalist, company director, and food consultant, formerly a model and actress.

Date of birth: 22 April 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Editor

Gender: Female

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20th-century South African actresses 36T

South African emigrants to the United Kingdom 270T

People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire 423T
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Charlene Leonora Smith

South African, Journalist

Overview: Charlene Leonora Smith is a journalist, published author of 14 books, and is an authorized biographer of Nobel Peace Prize winner, and former South African President, Nelson Mandela. She is also a com ...

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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American women television journalists 565T

Sexual abuse victims activists 79T

South African journalists 145T
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Paula Slier

South African, Journalist

Overview: Paula Slier (born 26 March 1973) is a South African television, radio and print journalist, news editor, and war correspondent, who is based in the Middle East. She is the Middle East Bureau Chief for ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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RT (TV network) people 29T

South African war correspondents 6T

South African journalists 145T
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Jani Allan

South African journalist, columnist, writer and broadcaster (1952–2023)

Overview: Jani Allan (11 September 1952 - 25 July 2023) was a South African journalist, columnist, writer and broadcaster. She became one of the country's first media celebrities in the 1980s and 1990s.

Date of birth: 11 September 1953

Date of death: 25 July 2023

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

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South African women columnists 6T

2023 deaths 5,009T

Alumni of Greenside High School 9T
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Debora Patta

Broadcast journalist

Overview: Debora Patta (born 1 September 1964) is a South African broadcast journalist and television producer investigative journalist. She was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and has origins from Calabria ...

Date of birth: 13 July 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: South African

Occupation: TV News

Gender: Female

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South African women television presenters 15T

Women television presenters 1,277T

CBS News people 223T
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Heidi Holland

Zimbabwean journalist

Overview: Heidi Holland (6 October 1947 – 11 August 2012), also known as Heidi Hull (during her first marriage), was a South African journalist and author who had been involved in the journalism industry for over ...

Date of birth: 6 October 1947

Date of death: 11 August 2012

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Zimbabwean

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Zimbabwean women journalists 7T

2012 suicides 64T

21st-century Zimbabwean writers 35T
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Antjie Krog

South African poet, philosopher, academic, and writer (born 1952)

Overview: Antjie Krog (born 23 October 1952) is a South African poet, academic, and writer. In 2004, she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.

Date of birth: 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Afrikaner anti-apartheid activists 26T

Afrikaans-language poets 40T

White Left (South Africa) 114T
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Jeanne Goosen

South African poet (1938–2020)

Overview: Jeanne Goosen (13 July 1938, in Cape Town – 2 June 2020) was a South African journalist, poet and writer. She wrote short stories, children's books, plays and award-winning novels.

Date of birth: 13 July 1938

Date of death: 2 June 2020

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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South African women children's writers 19T

Afrikaans-language poets 40T

2020 deaths 11,737T
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Thokozile Masipa

South African judge

Overview: Thokozile Matilda Masipa (born 16 October 1947) is a judge in the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa. She was the presiding judge in the 2014 trial of Oscar Pistorius for the killing of ...

Date of birth: 16 October 1947

Age: 76

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Judge

Gender: Female

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South African women judges 13T

South African newspaper journalists 7T

People from Soweto 156T
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Noni Jabavu

South African writer and journalist

Overview: Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu (20 August 1919 – 19 June 2008) was a South African writer and journalist, one of the first African women to pursue a successful literary career and the first black South ...

Date of birth: 20 August 1919

Date of death: 1 June 2008

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Columnist

Gender: Female

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20th-century memoirists 804T

20th-century South African women writers 45T

20th-century South African writers 32T
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Stacy Hardy

South African writer

Overview: Stacy M. Hardy is a writer, journalist, multimedia artist and theatre practitioner. She is a founding member of the Venus Fly Trapeze Theatre Company, which has produced 8 original productions since 1995 ...

Date of birth: 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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South African journalists 145T

South African women writers 106T

South African artists 195T
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Lauren Beukes

South African novelist

Overview: Lauren Beukes (born 5 June 1976) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter.

Date of birth: 5 June 1976

Age: 48

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Female

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21st-century screenwriters 214T

21st-century South African novelists 32T

21st-century South African women writers 48T
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Dot Serfontein

South African writer (1925–2016)

Overview: Susanna Jacoba "Dot" Serfontein (30 April 1925 – 4 November 2016) was an Afrikaans writer from Kroonstad in the Free State. She rose to prominence as a short-story and novella writer in the 1960s, par ...

Date of birth: 30 April 1925

Date of death: 4 November 2016

Age: 91 (age at death)

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21st-century South African writers 25T

20th-century South African women writers 56T

20th-century South African writers 41T
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Kgopedi Lilokoe

South African radio personality

Overview: Kgopedi Oa Namane Lilokoe is a South African radio personality from Tembisa. She is the former Midday News and Africa Watch anchor on South Africa’s largest commercial radio station, Metro FM. She also ...

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Journalist

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Redi Tlhabi

South African, Journalist

Overview: Redi Tlhabi (née Direko; born 1978) is a South African journalist, producer, author and a former radio presenter. She presented The Redi Tlhabi Show on Radio 702 for over a decade. Her broadcasting ...

Date of birth: 5 May 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Women non-fiction writers 62T

Women radio journalists 157T

South African journalists 154T
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Leanne Manas

South African TV presenter at the SABC (born 1974)

Overview: Leanne Manas

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Journalist

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South African journalists 145T

Mass media in South Africa 6T

Rhodes University alumni 130T
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Joyce Sikakane

South African journalist and activist

Overview: Joyce Nomafa Sikakane, later Sikakane-Rankin (born 1943), is a South African journalist and activist. She was detained by the Apartheid South African government for 17 months for her anti-apartheid activism ...

Date of birth: 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Irma Joubert

South African author

Overview: Irma Joubert is a South African author and recipient of the ATKV Prize for Romance Novels. Her novel Anderkant Pontenilo has been recognised in South Africa as one of the 20 best books published in the ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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21st-century South African women writers 48T

Women romantic fiction writers 529T

South African women novelists 69T
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Khanyi Dhlomo

South African editor

Overview: Khanyi Dhlomo (born 17 December 1974 in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal) is a South African TV Host and the founder and CEO of Ndalo Media and Ndalo Luxury Ventures.

Date of birth: 17 December 1974

Age: 49

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South African women editors 4T

Women chief executives 132T

South African business executives 20T