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Max du Preez

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South African writer

South AfricaWritersBorn 1951 · age 75
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Max du Preez is a South African journalist and author. He is known as the founding editor of Vrye Weekblad (1988-1994), and Vrye Weekblad Online or Vrye Weekblad II (2019-2025), and for opposing apartheid.

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2014Alan Paton Award

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Max du Preez is a South African journalist and author. He is known as the founding editor of Vrye Weekblad (1988-1994), and Vrye Weekblad Online or Vrye Weekblad II (2019-2025), and for opposing apartheid. He was also editor and executive producer of a series of television documentaries about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the end of the apartheid era.

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South Africa
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1951 · age 75
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6 languages

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