When you can’t afford to invest in a new hobby, or buy a new car, or take a life-changing trip because you’re a bitter journalist…
Posts published by “Haji Mohamed Dawjee”
Although Haji Mohamed Dawjee should be putting her degree in music to better use she suffers from stage fright so instead she spends her time at the Mail & Guardian as the social media editor. Besides pushing the M&G's stories on Facebook, Twitter, Google + and Instagram, Haji also throws together social media news and views for our readers and keeps an eye on our competitors' social media stats. Her other eye is used for cat-naps and her ears are on the ground so she can hear the buzz around the latest trend. She's a little funny, slightly quirky and she smells good most of the time. Pigeons are her Kryptonite and she shoots apostrophes.
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I can’t believe I’ve done it again. I’ve gone ahead with the not-so-good old hand slam. Flipped the bird to every fibre of my not-so-absolute…
Here is my wish for women everywhere this Christmas. That by all means, they should have a lot of eat, a lot of pray and…
I arrived back from a holiday in India to tragic news. Nelson Mandela had died. The next few days at work were laced with jet…
Let’s talk about the front page of the Beeld newspaper today and the way journalists need to be held accountable for the kind of conversation…
My sister has this theory: She refuses to settle for anyone in the limited cess-pool of Indian Muslim men from small communities that sort of…
Oh, the president’s wit. The president’s wit. What is it, about the president’s wit? Let me just try get a few things out the way:…
I tagged along with a fellow newspaper journalist to a magazine event the other night. A women’s beauty magazine no less, but obviously the word…
I always wondered about that phrase, “a fish out of water”. To me, it always seemed like a chosen emotion. That is, you can only…