The Campaign for Free Expression

CFE Team

Director

Adriaan Basson

Adriaan Basson is the editor-in-chief of News24, South Africa’s biggest website with an average of 7m UBs per month. Before that, he edited Netwerk24 and the daily newspaper Beeld. He is an award-winning investigative journalist who has reported for Beeld, the Mail & Guardian and City Press. In 2010 he co-founded the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism, nicknamed amaBhungane. Adriaan has authored four non-fiction books, the latest being Blessed by Bosasa: Inside Gavin Watson’s State Capture Cult Adriaan Basson (Jonathan Ball Publishers).

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