Primary Job Title Caxton Professor of Journalism Primary Organization 
University of the Witwatersrand
Location Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Anton Harber is the Caxton Professor of Journalism at Wits University and chair of South Africa’s Freedom of Expression Institute. He was a founding editor of the Weekly Mail (now the Mail & Guardian) and an executive director of Kagiso Media.
He wrote Diepsloot (Jonathan Ball, 2011), winner of the Recht Malan Prize, and co-edited the first
two editions of The A–Z of South African Politics (Penguin, 1994/5), What is Left Unsaid: Reporting the South African HIV Epidemic (Jacana, 2010) and Troublemakers: The best of SA’s investigative journalism (Jacana, 2010).
