Haji Mohamed Dawjee

Born to a Muslim family in the apartheid township of Laudium, Pretoria, Haji Mohamed Dawjee came of age just as South Africa's democracy was finding its feet. She was Africa's first social media editor in a newsroom at the Mail Guardian, where she went on to work as deputy digital editor and afficher plus disrupted the peace through a weekly column. She now pursues her own writing full time, infuriating and delighting readers with columns for EWN, Women24 and the Sunday Times, and contributing freelance journalism and opinion to other publications. afficher moins