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“Then, it was a big disgrace – skandaal! – for a young girl to get herself pregnant outside of marriage. I was already a very focal point of community gossip: I was doing something no Malay girl had ever done before me […] I was a reporter on a ‘naytiff’ paper, and I was seen all over the place in the company of ‘naytiffs’ – eating with them, walking and talking with them, partying with them and jislaai! coming home with them in open-top Cadillacs!”

The late, great Juby Mayet passed away in April 2019 at the age of 82. The New Age. Drum, Golden City Post, Voice – some of the greatest publications of an era – were elevated by Juby’s voice. Her hepcat, jazz-inflected writing is thrilling, and all the more so in this, her memoir. Mayet was a writer and a fighter, for whom media freedom was sacred, and being a writer was the greatest thing a person could do.

Susanne M. Klausen’s afterword is an essential and elegant contribution to Juby’s life and times, and an urgent call for Juby Mayet  to receive the recognition she so deserves.

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Weight 029 kg
Dimensions 215 × 155 × 30 mm
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Juby Mayet

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Juby Mayet, (1937–2019) was born in Fietas, Johannesburg. She began writing at a young age, working first at the Golden City Post, moving to Drum, and joining Voice in 1977. Juby was a founding member of the Union of Black Journalists and a member of the Writer’s Association of South Africa. She was detained in 1979 and, following that detention, was served with a five-year banning order. Her career spanned five decades, and although not always working as a journalist (she worked as a cleaner and a secretary), she cleared the path for black women journalists, and inspired generations of South African journalists.

Susanne M. Klausen is the Julia Grigg Brill Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University and Senior Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Johannesburg.

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9781431429370

Year of Publication

2022

Month of Publication

August

Language

English

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Jacana Media

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Paperback

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