Zubeida Jaffer has been a journalist for the past 27 years.

She works independently from her home in Wynberg,

Cape Town and is a Honorary Research Associate at the

University of Cape Town’s Centre for African Studies.

She holds an MSc degree in Journalism from

Columbia University in New York and Bachelor

Degrees from Rhodes University and the

University of Cape Town.

She started her career at the Cape Times in 1980 and also spent a short stint at the

Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg.

She has written for a wide-range of publications in South Africa and abroad(see her full CV).

Her work has earned her numerous local and international awards.

These include the Muslim Views Achiever Award as well as the Honor Medal for Distinguished Service

to Journalism from the University of Missouri in the USA.

She is also the first woman in Africa to have won the coveted foreign journalist award from the

National Association of Black Journalists in the USA.

Ms Jaffer is known too for her community activism which has earned her atleast two spells in apartheid

South Africa’s notorious detention centres. Her memoir, Our Generation, eloquently tells the story of

her emotional journey through the years of South Africa’s turbulence into a new democracy.

Her latest book, Love in the Time of Treason, has been described as a tour de force.

Denis Goldberg & Zubeida Jaffer :-

Denis Goldberg’s Memoir The Mission Launched at the Book Lounge

Writing after Apartheid & the Berlin Wall

Fred Khumalo and Ingo Schulze

Readings and Talks

Sunday, 1 August 2010 at 2pm

Cape Town Book Fair

CTICC, Room 1.62

What roles do writers play in periods of transition and transformation? Are the literary approaches in

Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall and in South Africa after the end of Apartheid similar?

How does fiction reflect the relationships between people who have experienced the same historic

period, but from opposing sides? How do writers contribute to issues of identity and nation-building?

Please meet two distinguished authors:

Fred Khumalo

author, journalist and editor of

Sunday Times, South Africa

Ingo Schulze

author and director for literature of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Zubeida Jaffer, journalist and author, will facilitate the event.

Please note that there will also be a reading by Ingo Schulze in German language from his book

“Handy - 13 Geschichten in alter Manier”:

Saturday, 31 July at 6pm

Goethe-Zentrum Kapstadt, 155 Buitenkant Str., Gardens 8001, Tel. 021 4651317

RSVP: Ms. Tania Steincke, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it