List of Daily Maverick Journalists and Reporters

Oct 31, 2025
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1. Amish Patel

Designation Writer Author Bio ????Canadian Screen Award Winner ???????? 2x Emmy Nomination (Applicant) ❤️❤️❤️Harvard* Certified Loving Kindness Coach
Twitter @wakebakemed Get Email Contact

2. Anna Southwell

Designation Intern Author Bio unc alum
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3. Anotida Chikumbu

Designation Opinion and Analysis Columnist Author Bio Teaching Associate, Ph.D. (Abd) Candidate, & Frederic Gilbert Bauer-Graduate Research Fellow @ the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Twitter @ConstantineChi9 Get Email Contact

4. Bheki Simelane

Designation Reporter Author Bio Daily Maverick reporter since time immemorial.
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5. Branco Brkic

Designation Founder and Editor Author Bio An accidental traveller through space/time continuum. Editor-in-Chief of Daily Maverick, South Africa. RTs are endorsements.
Twitter @brankobrkic Get Email Contact

6. Brooks Spector

Designation Associate Editor Author Bio Assoc. Editor, The Daily Maverick; interim CEO, the Market Theatre Foundation; freelance commentator for radio /TV
Twitter @parkhurst1 Get Email Contact

7. Chris Bateman

Designation News Editor Author Bio 56, married, 2 daughters (2008 and 2006), news ed, SA MedJourn. 34 yr newspaper career, fluent in Zulu. Angler. Lapsed Catholic + hang-glider. MKP, M2Life, BioD
Twitter @stumfcrystal Get Email Contact

8. Chuma Nontsele

Designation Journalist Author Bio Passionate writer ???? Journalism student Melomaniac & phoenix????????????????
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9. Des Erasmus

Designation Contributor Author Bio Christian; wife to the brilliant @JonathanErasmus; Journalist; sea lover. Frequent abuser of semi colons. It's an endorsement if I say it is.
Twitter @IcikoMedia Get Email Contact

10. Elsabe Brits

Designation Freelance Science and Health Journalist Author Bio Freelance Science & Health journalist. Biographer of #EmilyHobhouse - feminist, pacifist & humanitarian during the South African War & WW1
Twitter @elsabebrits Get Email Contact

11. Emilie Gambade

Designation Editor, Maverick Life Author Bio Editor • Journalist
Twitter @EmilieGambade Get Email Contact

12. Estelle Ellis

Designation Senior Journalist Author Bio Journalist for Maverick Citizen at Daily Maverick. Proud aunt. World changer. Word activist. Wired for compassion and kindness. Living with world's best cat.
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13. Ethan Van Diemen

Designation Journalist Author Bio Covers everything climate for @DailyMaverick | @WitsUniversity , @Rhodes_JMS alumnus. Part of the @Risj_Oxford Climate Journalism Network | Opinions are my own
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14. Ferial Haffajee

Designation Associate Editor Author Bio Yogi ????‍♀️
Twitter @ferialhaffajee Get Email Contact

15. Georgina Crouth

Designation Associate Editor Author Bio Business Maverick. I write about retail, food, alcohol, motoring, tourism and consumer issues. Mail me: ****@dailymaverick.co.za
Twitter @GeorginaCrouth Get Email Contact

16. Glen Retief

Designation Columnist Author Bio Writer: "The Jack Bank." Columnist @dailymaverick "Letter from Trumpland." Teaches @SU_Writers. 2021-22 #FulbrightScholar
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17. Greg Nicolson

Designation Journalist Author Bio Journalist. Attempted photographer.
Twitter @gregnicolson Get Email Contact

18. Heather Robertson

Designation Editor Author Bio Afro-optimist, feminist, mother, writer, journalist, editor, media trainer, earth lover, star gazer, bullshit-buster.muck-rack.intercom-clicks.com/via/e
Twitter @HeatherR168 Get Email Contact

19. Janet Heard

Designation Journalist, editor and columnist with special focus on parliament Author Bio Proudly South African journalist, Rhodes alumni, Nieman Fellow
Twitter @janetheard Get Email Contact

20. Jillian Green

Designation Managing Editor Author Bio Truth seeker, deadline slayer. Managing editor at Daily Maverick @dailymaverick
Twitter @jfgreen1 Get Email Contact

21. Jim Mohlala

Designation Journalist Author Bio Journalist with Daily Maverick | Email: ****@dailymaverick.co.za
Twitter @jim_mohlala Get Email Contact

22. John Stupart

Designation Newsletter Editor Author Bio Unicorn apologist. Defence Analyst. Newsletters.
Twitter @jrstupart Get Email Contact

23. Judith February

Designation Columnist Author Bio lawyer, columnist, author, lover of words. Latte drinker, Classicist & cricket fan. editor: ‘Judith's Prudence’, Freedom Under Law: Executive Officer.
Twitter @judith_february Get Email Contact

24. Kevin Bloom

Designation Senior Reporter Author Bio Co-founder/inv. journ: Our Burning Planet @ Daily Maverick. Author: Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's Changing Fortunes (2016); Ways of Staying (2010).
Twitter @KevBloom Get Email Contact

25. Kristin Engel

Designation Journalist Author Bio ‘n vrou met planne (she/her) -???????????? Journalist | Illustrator | Designer ???? ****@dailymaverick.co.za ????opinions are my own
Twitter @_kuristina Get Email Contact

26. Leila Dougan

Designation Journalist and Photographer Twitter @leiladougan Get Email Contact

27. Malibongwe Tyilo

Designation Writer Author Bio almost never tweets. not really worth following tbh.
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28. Marianne Thamm

Designation Associate Editor Author Bio Artisanal journalist/writer/author/ columnist. Earthling. Pessimistic optimist. Trash recycler, keeper of condoms....100 % organic
Twitter @MarianneThamm Get Email Contact

29. Mark Heywood

Designation Writer Get Email Contact

30. Michelle Banda

Designation Journalist Author Bio Juby Mayet Rising Star #SBSJA2023 #VJOY2022 Young Journalist General News Reporter at ****@dailymaverick.co.za She/Her Rhodes University Alumni
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31. Neesa Moodley

Designation Business Journalist Author Bio Business Maverick. Money Cents with Neesa Personal finance, consumer, healthcare, financial services, investing. Opinions are my own ****@dailymaverick.co.za
Twitter @neesasez Get Email Contact

32. Onke Ngcuka

Designation Environmental Journalist Get Email Contact

33. Pauli van Wyk

Designation Journalist Author Bio I am an African. Journalist with @DailyMaverick's investigative team, Scorpio. A Daily Maverick reader named their pet after me. Mail: ****@dailymaverick.co.za
Twitter @PaulivW Get Email Contact

34. Peter Fabricius

Designation Freelance Journalist Author Bio Foreign affairs journalist
Twitter @PFabric Get Email Contact

35. Pieter-Dirk Uys

Designation Writer Twitter @TannieEvita Get Email Contact

36. Queenin Masuabi

Designation Senior Political Journalist Author Bio Senior Political Journalist• fashionista in the making •God’s favourite daughter •Instagram: Personal account @queenin_m
Twitter @Queenin_M Get Email Contact

37. Ray Mahlaka

Designation Financial Journalist Author Bio Daily Maverick journalist. Business news updates on SAfm. Kindness matters – now more than ever.
Twitter @RayMahlaka Get Email Contact

38. Raymond Suttner

Designation Professor, Journalist Author Bio Researcher, analyst. Emeritus Prof. Books include ANC Underground, 2008, Recovering Democracy in SA,2015, Inside apartheid's prison, rev ed 2017. Next Memoirs.
Twitter @RaymondSuttner Get Email Contact

39. Rebecca Davis

Designation Writer Author Bio 40-something writer, dreamer, lover, lemur. I write things, mostly for @dailymaverick. Author of 'Best White' & 'Self-Helpless'
Twitter @becsplanb Get Email Contact

40. Richard Poplak

Designation Editor at Large Author Bio Journalist, filmmaker, graphic novelist, doggeralist (so this should rhyme, but nah.) Editor at large @dailymaverick.
Twitter @Poplak Get Email Contact

41. Stephen Grootes

Designation Writer Author Bio Host of SAFM Sunrise on @SAfmRadio. Presenter on @Newzroom405. Politics addict. Writer at DailyMaverick.co.za. Alleged cyclist. Email: ****@SABC.co.za
Twitter @StephenGrootes Get Email Contact

42. Sune Payne

Designation Journalist Author Bio Eye-rolls for a living. Piscean. Cape Town. Writer. Journalist with @dailymaverick : ****@dailymaverick.co.za
Twitter @SunePayne Get Email Contact

43. Tevya Shapiro

Designation Film Critic Get Email Contact

44. Tony Jackman

Designation Writer, Columnist and Chief Sub-Editor Author Bio Writer, columnist, chief sub-editor for Daily Maverick, author of foodSTUFF. singer at braai parties, devoted dad to my Rebs and Jess and life partner to my Di.
Twitter @JackmanWrites Get Email Contact

45. Vincent Cruywagen

Designation Multimedia Journalist Author Bio Multimedia journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. @vcruywagen Email me at ****@gmail.com
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46. Velani Ludidi

Designation Journalist Author Bio Ikasi made me| Intatheli yodumo????|Award winning journalist| Multimedia Reporter @dailymaverick ????****@dailymaverick.co.za
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