Shaun Johnson and Nelson Mandela, a match made in reality
The late founder of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation was a world-class writer and orator, and a fearless political player
26 February 2020 - 12:20
Shaun Johnson, who tragically passed away this week, was one of the finest journalists and most elegant writers I ever worked with. He was also, as Helen Suzman called him, a “brilliant commentator and perceptive political analyst” whose writings “rekindled our jaded hopes”.
He was my introduction to SA politics when I arrived from London to take over the running of the old Argus Newspapers group where he was the political editor of The Star, and I don’t think there was a senior minister in the new ANC government that he didn’t know intimately, all of whom looked up to him...
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