Verashni Pillay's Profile

Verashni Pillay is the deputy editor of the Mail & Guardian Online.

When she's not answering emails and attending meetings she tries to sneak in as much writing as possible.

Her interests are race, politics, local issues and a bit of theology and social media here and there.

She grew up in an unnoticed corner of Pretoria, learned her trade at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, spent a spell in Cape Town as an online journalist, and now loves living in Jozi.

Instagram turns amateurs into artists

With her thumbs and a phone and despite zero artistic background, Verashni Pillay got her first exhibition.

Cope whizz kids boost ANC media

Seemingly out of nowhere, the ANC had social media savvy. The reason was not hard to find, write Verashni Pillay and Mmanaledi Mataboge.

It's tata ma chance to meet ANC bigwigs

The business tent in Mangaung saw a daily influx of powerful business people under its white canvas.

ANC Youth League's fate up in the air

President Jacob Zuma has come out strongly against his enemies aligned to Julius Malema, and has put the ANC Youth League's future in question.

One love: Zuma picks Motlanthe to lead ANC's political school

Jacob Zuma has announced that the ANC's former deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe will lead the party's new political school.

Nationalisation of mines dead and buried

The ANC has rejected mine nationalisation as an economic policy at the ruling party's elective conference in Mangaung, Free State.
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