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Herbert Mabuza
From mediaman to farmer...
THOSE IN THE KNOW
MIGHT REMEMBER
HERBERT MABUZA AS
THE MUCH ACCLAIMED
JOURNALIST AND
PHOTOGRAPHER.
H
erbert has a long history
and joined the media
industry in 1982. He worked for
Sunday Express and then joined
the Star and Sunday Times. He became the Managing Editor of the
Star and later on the Sowetan and
Sunday World and handed over
the baton in June 2015. “I loved
what I did at the newspapers. I
worked my way up from the bottom to the top.”
But as outspoken as he is about
his career in media, he hardly ever
talks about the years preceding this
wonderful time in his life.
“The part of my life
I never talk about”
To understand him fully you need
to look at the earlier years. Herbert disappeared for a while as he
thinks back to the latter part of
his teenage life. “I was a guest of
the government, unwillingly for
a while. Whatever that means.”
This is how Herbert describes his
18 months of detention which
he spent in solitary confinement
when he was part of the Soweto
Uprising in 1976.
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WHY FARMING, AND WHY NOW?
The 57-year-old has been inte
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