Kaizer's Musing Part of the SiteThirty years into our democracy, it is common cause that South Africa today stands dangerously poised on a steep precipice. The country is at a strategic inflection...
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South Africa’s first African Editor of a mainstream, non-racial (as opposed to black) newspaper, Kaiser Nyatsumba was born in white River in Mpumalanga and started his journalism career as a freelance reporter while still at secondary school.
He has been political Editor and Executive Editor of the star in Johannesburg, Deputy Editor of the mercury in Durban and funding Editor of KwaZulu-Natal’s the independent on Saturday , and is now Editor KwaZulu-Natal’s The Independent on Saturday, and is now Editor of the Province’s biggest daily newspaper, daily News.
While studying at the University of Zululand, he wrote for theZululand Observer and while he studied at Georgetown Universityin Washington DC, where he obtained a BA Honours degree inEnglish, he wrote for the Georgetown Hoya. Nyatsumba, who laterobtained his Journalism Diploma through the Newspaper Instituteof America, received the Helen Suzman Leadership Award fromthe British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1992 and was aResearch Fellow at the European Institute for the Media thenattached to the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. In1996 he was one of seven senior South African journalists’ whowere chosen by Independent Newspapters fora specialLeadership and Management course offered jointly by the Harvard
Business School and the Nieman Foundation in Boston.
In addition to his popular nationally-syndicated weekly column, “One in Your Eye”, Nyatsumba is also a much-quoted politicalcommentator and is Radio Metro’s resident political analyst. He
Has published five books: When Darkness Falls (1990), A Vision of
Paradise (1992), In Love with a Stranger (1995), Umlozi (1996)
And ALL SIDES OF THE STORY: A Grandstand View of South Africa’s Political Transition.
He is married to Gugu and has three children, two girls and one boy.
