Moosa Ismail Sea

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Moosa Ismail Meer (* 1897 in Surat , British India , † September 11, 1972 in Durban ) was an Indian-born journalist and newspaper publisher in South Africa .

Life

In Surat Moosa sea grew in the environment of a Sunni Bohra Association of up and went to school there. When his parents immigrated to the Natal colony , he came to Durban. However, he subsequently studied at the Bombay Technical Institute and at an Indian St. Xavier's College , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts . With the help of a US government scholarship, Meer completed a journalism degree in the United States .

In his first professional years he gained experience in retail. In 1926, Meer began to work as an editor for the weekly newspaper The Indian Views , whose management he took over in 1929 and became its owner and publisher in 1934. Under his leadership, it developed into a major newspaper for the Indian diaspora in the Union of South Africa .

Moosa Meer died after a heart attack at St Aidan's Mission Regional Hospital in Durban and was buried there in Brook Street Muslim Cemetery .

He was also the editor of Newscope and Sportscope .

family

Moosa Meer was married to Khatija from a Muslim family in India and later to the younger Rachel Farrel, a Jewish-Portuguese orphan. He had four children. Fatima Meer , a South African sociologist and anti-apartheid activist , came from this family. His eldest son Ismail Moosa Meer took over the management of the Indian Views newspaper until the end of its publication.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Devi Rajab: Fatima Meer (1928-2010) . In: Natalia, Vol. 40 (2010), Natal Society Foundation, 2010, p. 151. at www.natalia.org.za (English)
  2. ^ Ismail Moosa Sea. Publisher & Journalist - Indian Views. 1972 . on www.scnc.ukzn.ac.za (English)
  3. ↑ Dhanee Bramdaw et al .: The South African Indian who's who and Commercial Directory, 1936-37 . Pietermaritzburg 1936, p. 98. on www.scnc.ukzn.ac.za (English)
  4. ↑ Thembisa Waetjen, Goolam Vahed: The Diaspora at Home: Indian Views and the Making of Zuleikha Mayat's Public Voice . In: Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 81 (2011), pp. 23-41, abstract. at www.muse.jhu.edu ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / muse.jhu.edu
  5. ↑ Fatima Sea. on www1.durban.gov.za ( memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.durban.gov.za
  6. ^ Villa-Vicencio, Charles: The spirit of freedom: South African leaders on religion and politics . Berkeley 1996, p. 176. at www.publishing.cdlib.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sea, Moosa Ismail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sea, MI
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African journalist and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Surat , British India
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1972
Place of death Durban , South Africa