Ferial Haffajee (Class 2 Fellow) is an Associate Editor, Daily Maverick. She covers cities and runs several award-winning newsletters. She is former Editor-In-Chief of the Mail&Guardian and City Press and a Moderator at the Africa Leadership Initiative.
She has served on the boards of the International Press Institute and the World Editors Forum. She chaired the SA National Editors Forum’s ethics and diversity committee. She is an Associate Member of Gender Links, an NGO geared toward improving the media’s coverage of development and gender empowerment. She has received the Shoprite-Checkers Woman of the Year Award; The Media magazine’s Women in Media Award; a Sanlam financial journalism award and Naspers group’s most prestigious internal prize, the Phil Weber Award.
She is a Fellow of the 2nd class of the Africa Leadership Initiative-South Africa, as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is also a previous winner of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) International Press Freedom Awards. She is the CNN MultiChoice African Journalism Awards’ judge. She is the author of a book titled: “What If There Were No Whites in South Africa?” published by Pan McMillan in 2015 and also of the book Days of Zondo, an account of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.