Ferial Haffajee is Editor-in-Chief of City Press. Previously she held the same position at the Mail & Guardian. She is also an alumni of the Africa Leadership Initiative, a project of the Aspen Institute.

 

Haffajee sits on the board of Gender Links which is geared to improving the media’s coverage of development and gender empowerment. She is a previous winner of the Shoprite-Checkers Woman of the Year Award, The Media magazine’s Women in the Media Award, a Sanlam financial journalism award and the Naspers group’s most prestigious internal prize, the Phil Weber award. In 2008, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She is also the winner of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) 2014 International Press Freedom Awards. Haffajee has also worked at Financial Mail and at the SABC in both radio and television. She sits on the boards of the International Press Institute and the World Editors Forum. In addition, she chairs the SA National Editors Forum’s ethics and diversity committee.