Nwabisa Makunga (born 1982) is a South African journalist and newspaper editor. She is editor of The Sowetan.[1]
Life
editMakunga was born in Uitenhage. Her mother was a high school pupil at the time, and she was raised by her paternal grandparents, a school principal and a blue collar worker in car manufacturing. As a child, she was inspired to want to become a journalist by the news presenter Noxolo Grootboom's narration of the 1993 funeral of Chris Hani.[2]
In 2004, Makunga became a volunteer at The Herald. After six months, they employed her on a stipend contract, and a year later gave her a permanent contract.[2] In 2016, she became deputy editor of the Herald and its Saturday publication, the Weekend Post, and in July 2018, became editor of the Herald and Weekend Post.[1]
She left the Herald and Weekend Post at the end of February 2020, to take up a job a editor of the Sowetan on 1 March 2020.[1] Immediately after arrival she had to cope with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, changing technological processes and managing the pandemic's economic and political impact on the newspaper.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Nomazima Nkosi (11 February 2020). "Nwabisa Makunga to edit the Sowetan". Sowetan Live. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ a b Lincoln Mali (15 February 2019). "A Conversation with Nwabisa Makunga – Editor, The Herald". Leadership Conversations. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "Sustaining the team during a pandemic is critical". Fray International. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
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