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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand

Anton Harber is Caxton Professor of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and executive director of the Campaign for Free Expression. He was a founder and editor of the anti-apartheid newspaper, The Weekly Mail (now The Mail & Guardian). He is the author of Diepsloot (Jonathan Ball, 2011), The Gorilla in the Room (Mampoer Shorts, 2013) and So, for the Record: Behind the headlines in an era of state capture (Jonathan Ball, 2020).

Experience

  • –present
    Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand

Honours

Pringle Award for Press Freedom; Missourri Medal of Honour; Recht Malan Literary Prize (for Diesploot)