Justice Malala

Justice Malala’s new book is The Plot To Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation. He is an award-winning South African journalist, television host, political commentator, and newspaper columnist. He now lives in New York City, USA.

Malala is a regular contributor to the Guardian in London and his work has been published in The Washington Post, the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Times of London, and others. He also writes regular weekly columns for the Financial Mail and TimesLive in South Africa. He is a political consultant to Lefika Securities.

His last book, We Have Now Begun Our Descent, reached number one on the South African best-seller lists in 2016 and was nominated as one of the top five non-fiction books of 2015 by the influential Jenny Crwys-Williams Book Club.

Malala was formerly presenter and executive producer of the longest-running weekly political talk show in South Africa (The Justice Factor on eNCA). He was general manager of Times Media Group’s magazines division and the Publisher of the iconic Sowetan and Sunday World newspapers. In 2003 he was the co-founder and editor of ThisDay, a quality, upmarket South African daily newspaper.

Malala was the resident political analyst for eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) between 2007 and 2015. He was rated among the top five political / economic analysts of 2016, 2017 and 2018.

He has given talks and rendered political advisory to international financial institutions such as JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Liberty, Old Mutual, Investec, Nedbank, and many others.

Malala was a judge on SA’s most prestigious investigative journalism award, the Taco Kuiper Awards for Investigative Journalism, for ten years. He was awarded the Foreign Correspondents Association Award for Courageous Journalism in 1997. He was named by the New Yorker magazine as one of the eight most fascinating Africans of 2012 along with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Malawian president Joyce Banda.