She started her career at the Cape Times in 1980 and also spent a
short stint at the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg.
She has written for a wide-range of publications in South Africa
and abroad(see her full CV).Her work has earned her numerous local
and international awards.These include the Muslim Views Achiever Award
as well as the Honor Medal for Distinguished Service to Journalism from
the University of Missouri in the USA. She is also the first woman in Africa
to have won the coveted foreign journalist award from the
National Association of Black Journalists in the USA.
Ms Jaffer is known too for her community activism which has earned her
at least two spells in apartheid South Africa’s notorious detention centres.
Her memoir, Our Generation, eloquently tells the story of her emotional
journeythrough the years of South Africa’s turbulence into a new
democracy. Her latest book, Love in the Time of Treason,
has been described as a tour de force.
