Ferial Haffajee
Ferial Haffajee (born 20 February 1967) is a South African journalist and newspaper editor. Haffajee was editor of City Press newspaper from July 2009 until July 2016 and was previously the editor of the Mail & Guardian newspaper. Haffajee was awarded the 2014 International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists and was appointed to the board of the International Press Institute in 2011. Haffajee is currently Associate Editor at the Daily Maverick, and was previously editor-at-large at HuffPost South Africa until it ended its partnership with Media24 in 2018. Early life and career Haffajee, an Indian, grew up in Bosmont, a suburb of Johannesburg. Her father was a clothing factory worker. She is an alumna of the University of the Witwatersrand. Haffajee was a cub reporter at 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 SABC, as a radio producer and television reporter, and at the Financial Mail magazine, where she was a senior editor responsible for political coverage and the managing editor. Mail & Guardian editorship Haffajee was appointed editor of Mail & Guardian at