Writer. Journalist. Analyst. Communications. Editorial Director - https://teapawt.net/t.co/cKRWjmeh3S Formerly @WaterAidPress + @bbcafrica + @bbcworldservice 📻 📺 📱
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My brilliant former-BBC colleague @KathyHarcombe and I have launched TopCast, our digital video, podcast and production training company. Between us, we have over four decades of editorial and production experience and we want to share that! topcastmedia.co.uk/
For me, Graceland is a masterpiece - certainly the greatest album of the 1980s. So this is a difficult and challenging listen. Necessarily so.
Four decades later Paul Simon’s Graceland is still the first encounter most international audiences had with South African music. But can you divorce the sound from the politics of the time?
My first radio outing on BBC Radio 4 is live
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bhx…
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[LISTEN] So, what now? Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi reflects on future of GNU
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📣 Some news about me:
Yesterday (Wednesday) I was detained by police in Istanbul, held for 17 hours and then deported from Turkey to the UK. Told I was “a threat to public order”. In the country I lived in - and love.
Journalism is not a crime.
Here’s the BBC’s statement:
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Democracy dies in darkness.
Grim days.
BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests bbc.com/news/articles/cly34r…
BBC's Mark Lowen deported from Turkey after covering protests bbc.com/news/articles/cly34r…
Athol Fugard caught the impact of apartheid’s full-on attack on humanity theguardian.com/stage/2025/m…
Mishal Husain to join Bloomberg after leaving BBC Radio 4 Today - BBC News. She really is the best of the best bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8n…
S.Africa's Breyten Breytenbach, writer and anti-apartheid activist france24.com/en/live-news/20…
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ALERT: Two South African journalists, Bongani Siziba and Sbonelo Mkhasibe, working @NewsCentralTV are missing in Mozambique. They were apparently detained while covering the protests in Maputo, and have since been incommunicado.
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This is on today @BBCRadio4 at 1600 BST; an extraordinary story about the lost archives of the Great #JamesBaldwin in the Côte D’Azur and the woman who has lovingly taken care of them. Made and narrated @tonyphillips40 (who is also great!) 📻📚bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021vy…
It's so interesting to read analysis/commentary on what it took for JZ to be expelled from the party. Up to this point since he left office, not much talk about state capture. It's disloyalty that did it. A master strategist
As Jacob Zuma’s expulsion from the ANC was confirmed on Monday, a top official from his former party accused him of frustrating the process so as to make as big a spectacle as possible.
“Jacob Zuma wanted a movie,” said Fikile Mbalula: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr4…
