Ferial Haffajee is the editor of the City Press

City Press

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 newspaper and previously the editor of the Mail & Guardian

Mail & Guardian

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 newspaper. She was the first Coloured

Coloured

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 woman editor of a major newspaper in South Africa

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Haffajee is a Board Member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).

Early career

Ferial was appointed to the board of the International Press Institute on 7 October 2011.

Haffajee was a cub reporter at the Mail & Guardian and has acted as its associate editor, media editor and economics writer at various times. Before taking up the editorship she held jobs at state broadcaster the SABC

South African Broadcasting Corporation

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, as a radio producer and television reporter, and at the Financial Mail

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 magazine, where she was a senior editor responsible for political coverage and the managing editor.

Mail & Guardian editorship

Haffajee was appointed editor of the Mail & Guardian in February 2004, two years after control of the paper was acquired by Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

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an publisher Trevor Ncube

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In 2005 the paper became one of the few publications, after the regime change of 1994, interdicted from publishing specific stories. In 2006 the paper was again interdicted, and Haffajee threatened, after republishing controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad

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In March 2009 the Mail & Guardian announced Haffajee's resignation, saying she would take up the position as editor of City Press

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 in July.
Previous speculation had identified her as a potential appointee as head of news at the SABC.