The Mail & Guardian is pleased to announce the following appointments:
Hoosain Karjieker: Karjieker joins the M&G as financial director from MultiChoice Africa where he was finance manager.
Zanele Gumbi: Gumbi joins us as marketing manager from Avon World, where she was accounts executive. Before that, she was accounts executive at the Sowetan.
Barry Streek: A distinguished political and parliamentary writer, Streek joins the paper as a parliamentary correspondent. Until June, Streek was manager of the media liaison department in Parliament. From 1975 until 1996 he covered politics for the Daily Dispatch, the Cape Times and the South African Morning Group. He is the co- author, with Richard Wicksteed, of Render unto Kaiser, a critique of politics in the Transkei bantustan.
Matthew Krouse: Krouse is the M&G’s new arts editor. In the early Eighties he studied theatre at Wits University, later entering the performance spotlight with the play Famous Dead Man that, with its banning, caused a minor public furore. He is an award-winning stage actor and has written about culture for publications at home and abroad. He was formerly the M&G’s deputy arts editor.
l Loose Cannon columnist Robert Kirby is migrating to the television pages, where his television column Channel Vision appears, starting this week.
Modikeng Mokwena: Mokwena joins the M&G as administration manager. He was formerly manager of the public relations office of the Gauteng premier.