Wally Mbhele has been appointed assistant editor at the Mail & Guardian. Mbhele (35), who hails from Bethlehem in the Free State, has been a political correspondent at the M&G since August last year.
Trained at The Weekly Mail, he has worked on a number of publications including Vrye Weekblad, New Nation and City Press and has distinguished himself as a political and investigative journalist. He recently won the Foreign Correspondents’ Association Media Award for outstanding journalism, together with the M&G’s Mungo Soggot.