A recommendation from Digital Media and Marketing Association
"Khadija Patel who cuts her teeth on Daily Maverick, and who’s strong, distinctive style has made her a writer to watch."
Read MoreIncluded in the Mail and Guardian Book of South African Women 2011
I was included in the 2011 edition of the Mail and Guardian's Book of Women.
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Online pop culture magazine contacted me COUP interviewed me about my selection to the Mail and Guardian’s “200 Young South Africans”. You can read the article with Jason Elk and I as well as the rest of the issue here.
Read MoreOne among the Mail & Guardian’s “200 Young South Africans”
When I heard that I had been selected as one of the Mail & Guardian’s “200 Young South Africans” this year I laughed in comic disbelief. Minutes later I was crying, overwhelmed with gratitude. Like Isaac Newton, I have only made it so far by my perch on the shoulders of giants. As much as it has been an honour and a privilege it has also been a profoundly humbling experience. How do you distinguish yourself in a noisy media landscape of wannabe writers? Invent your own platform if you can’t get anyone to publish you and keep writing. That’s what...
Read MoreLinked by Wikipedia baby
Trawling through Wikipedia for links on the history of service delivery protests in South Africa, I was well chuffed to find my column on service delivery protests as an expression of the discontent of the poor linked under “Further Reading” on the “Protest in South Africa” page on the vaunted, free encyclopaedia. And I’m in the company of the likes of Jane Duncan, Richard Pitihouse and Steven Friedman too! I’ll take that.
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