In Jon’s own words before the TRC

BLACK journalists are denied training and promotion, veteran journalist Jon Qwelane tells the TRC hearings in 1997.

I have been one (a journalist) since my first days as a freelance reporter on the Mafikeng Mail back in 1972. At present I am the Editor In-Chief at Mapuga Publishing which is a black-owned publishing house.

I joined the full-time staff of The World newspaper in 1975 and since then I have worked for just about every major newspaper in Johannesburg. In the time that I have worked as a journalist, the media did render themselves guilty of human rights violations and I have