Phillip de Wet
Nationality South Africa
OccupationJournalist

Phillip de Wet is a South African journalist and the author of Nkandla: The Great Unravelling.[1]

In October 2017, he won a national journalism award for a column about wine gums.[2]

De Wet was the founding deputy editor of daily online newspaper Daily Maverick, which credited him with much of its initial personality.[3] He was also a founder of that website's defunct predecessor magazine,[4] Maverick.[5]

In October 2015 he was appointing as acting deputy editor of newspaper Mail & Guardian.[6] Five years earlier that newspaper had described him as a "journalism school dropout".[7]

In February 2017 police sought to question De Wet about the leak of a draft government report he had written about.[8]

In February 2018 De Wet was appointed as associated editor of Business Insider South Africa.[9]

After Business Insider South Africa closed down with De Wet as acting editor,[10] he was appointed writer-at-large for News24 (website).[11]

References

  1. ↑ Wet, Phillip de (28 March 2014). Nkandla: The Great Unravelling. Mail & Guardian. ISBN 9780620601856.
  2. ↑ "Winners of Standard Bank 2017 Sikuvile Journalism Awards announced". Media Update. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "Op-Ed: What made Brain Porn alive? | Daily Maverick". www.dailymaverick.co.za. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "New local news website launches". Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "Branko Brkic guards the gate of the higher mind | IOL Business Report". Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Mail & Guardian appoints new editor-in-chief". Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  7. ↑ Pampalone, Tanya. "The site your mom warned you about". The M&G Online. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Police mum on 'concerning' visit to M&G over Public Protector 'leak'". CityPress. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "First editor of Business Insider SA appointed". Fin24. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  10. ↑ "Business Insider South Africa is closing down. Goodbye". Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  11. ↑ "A new page for Phillip de Wet at News24 after Business Insider SA closure". Retrieved 7 March 2023.
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