Finally we have a senior black journalist we can trust not to be a token

I must say that I am very happy for the decision taken by the Independent Group of newspapers to appoint such a hard working and intelligent journalist. Makhudu Sefara has basically done it all, and while other media groups that claim to be very transformed are busy recruiting people who will listen and do as they say in editorial positions, the Independent Group took in a young and hardworking black journalist who surely had nothing to prove anymore as a reporter.

Today we lack good and journalistically aggressive black journalists because a few good ones are ready and willing to be spokespeople to their white masters, and I am glad Makhudu avoided that in taking up such a challenging position at the Independent Group. As a black journalism student in South Africa I have always wanted to see change in South African journalism, especially change torwards black people in terms of being in positions of influence in journalism.

Finally my prayer has been heard as a role model has been made an Editor-In-Chief of such a great paper as the Sunday Independent, and that makes me and others like me want to work even harder knowing that it is possible out there. Unfortunately SA journalism, just like business, is still very white-male-owned, and most blacks who seem to work within the media campanies that are still so white seem to be comfortable in token roles.