Essays

Childhood

This edited essay is taken from a book entitled: Childhood: South Africans recall their past, by Adrian Hadland, which was published by Penguin books in 2005.

Kadar Asmal’s Formative Years

This essay is extracted from the memoir: Kader Asmal: Politics in my blood (Johannesburg: Jacana).

South African Journalism’s greatest scoop

From the ‘Introduction’ to the book, Changing the Fourth Estate: Essays on South African Journalism (HSRC Press, 2005),

Great Firewall of China

Great Firewall of China tasked with keeping Hong Kong conflagration in check. September 30, 2014

The Cassandra Protocol

So why haven’t they been in touch?

Risk and Journalism

This essay was published in the journal African Journalism Studies in 2015:

The VAR debacle and photography

Tearsheet about the VAR debacle, in which five goals were ruled out by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and two players were sent off, the world of football is beginning to realise what many photography scholars have known for years: the photographic (or video) image is inherently unreliable