Zubeida Jaffer — South African History Online biography

South African History Online's biography of Zubeida Jaffer: born 1958; Rhodes journalism degree in 1979; detained for two months in 1980 after exposing police killings, held in solitary confinement, tortured and beaten; detained again in 1986 while pregnant; head of the University of the Western Cape's media department 1987–1989; Columbia master's in journalism in 1996; group parliamentary editor of Independent Newspapers from May 1997. The record was updated on 23 November 2020.