Phillip de Wet is a South African journalist and the foreign editor of News24, where he publishes a weekly column on world events.[1]
He is the author of Nkandla: The Great Unravelling.[2]
In October 2017, he won a national journalism award for a column about wine gums.[3]
De Wet was the founding deputy editor of daily online newspaper Daily Maverick, which credited him with much of its initial personality.[4] He was also a founder of that website's defunct predecessor magazine,[5] Maverick.[6]
In October 2015 he was appointing as acting deputy editor of newspaper Mail & Guardian.[7] Five years earlier that newspaper had described him as a "journalism school dropout".[8]
In February 2017 police sought to question De Wet about the leak of a draft government report he had written about.[9]
In February 2018 De Wet was appointed as associated editor of Business Insider South Africa.[10]
After Business Insider South Africa closed down with De Wet as acting editor,[11] he was appointed writer-at-large for News24 (website).[12]
References
