Arthur Maimane

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John Arthur Mogale Maimane (born October 5, 1932 in Pietersburg , † June 28, 2005 in London ) was a South African journalist and writer.

Life

Maimane's father was a Setswana -speaking Anglican priest, his mother an Xhosa . Arthur Maimane grew up in Lady Selborne near Pretoria . He attended St Peter's College in the Johannesburg district of Rosettenville , which was directed by the British Anglican priest Trevor Huddleston . His math teacher was Oliver Tambo , who later became chairman of the African National Congress . Maimane planned to study medicine, but Huddleston persuaded him to work for Drum magazine , which was founded in 1951 as a lifestyle magazine mainly for blacks. He was considered the magazine's most versatile journalist; he conducted interviews with athletes and beauty queens and wrote the series The Chief under the pseudonym Arthur Mogale , in which a Philip Marlowe- style detective investigates crimes in the townships . Around 1955 he became editor of the Johannesburg tabloid Golden City Post, which was also aimed at blacks.

In 1958 he moved to Ghana to lead the West African drum edition. He also worked there for the radio. In 1961 he got a position with the Reuters intelligence service in London , while his wife separated from him and returned to South Africa with their three children. Maimane was stationed in Dar es Salaam as the East Africa correspondent . There he met his second wife, a British woman. After criticizing the Tanzanian government, he was expelled; he returned to London with his wife. There he was the first black man to be employed as a producer and editor at the BBC Africa Service before moving to the ITN broadcaster . In 1976 his novel Victims was published in Great Britain , which is set in contemporary South Africa and is about the rape of a white woman by a black man and their further life together. The novel was banned in South Africa , but received the South African Pringle Award for Creative Writing from the English Academy of South Africa in 1978 .

In 1990 Maimane returned to South Africa and was hired as an editor for the weekly newspaper Weekly Mail . After another stay in London, he worked from 1994 to 1997 as managing director and media consultant for the daily newspaper The Star . His play Hang On In There, Nelson was performed in Johannesburg and Pretoria in 1996 . In 2001 he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He returned to London again, where he died in a hospital in 2005.

Works

  • The Opportunity. 1968.
    • German as: The opportunity. Drama. In: The lion and the pearl. People and World, Berlin 1973.
  • Victims. Novel. Allison & Busby, 1976, ISBN 0-85031-162-4 .
  • Hang On In There, Nelson. Around 1995. Play.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Obituary in The Guardian , accessed March 28, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e portrait at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on March 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Maimane, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maimane, John Arthur Mogale (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Pietersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2005
Place of death London