Niren Tolsi-Journalist
Episode 85, Sep 25, 2019, 02:05 PM
Niren Tolsi is an award-winning South African journalist,a former Ruth First Fellow and an avid cricket fan. He covers issues around social justice, the constitution, politics, and violence. He is a co-founder of the now defunct The Con, and and associate editor/writer for New Frame.
Our discussion focuses on a number of themes that emerge from some of his recent writing including a series articles about South African cricketing great Hashim Amla, his 2018 Ruth First lecture that focused on the state of the South African media landscape, his ongoing work about the families of the miners massacred at Marikana in 2012, and a current project looking at politics and violence in kwaZulu-Natal.
So during our chat we spoke about the lack of transformation in sport, the media and business as well as the structure and nature of the South African media, and the state of the ANC through the violence in kwaZulu-Natal.
Read The Rainbow Beauty of Hashim Amla here.
The Meaning of Hashim Amla
Niren's Ruth First lecture.
Marikana
Our discussion focuses on a number of themes that emerge from some of his recent writing including a series articles about South African cricketing great Hashim Amla, his 2018 Ruth First lecture that focused on the state of the South African media landscape, his ongoing work about the families of the miners massacred at Marikana in 2012, and a current project looking at politics and violence in kwaZulu-Natal.
So during our chat we spoke about the lack of transformation in sport, the media and business as well as the structure and nature of the South African media, and the state of the ANC through the violence in kwaZulu-Natal.
Read The Rainbow Beauty of Hashim Amla here.
The Meaning of Hashim Amla
Niren's Ruth First lecture.
Marikana