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Haji Mohamed Dawjee

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.

Follow her on Twitter: @sage_of_absurd

Posted inGender violence, Media

David Bullard, do not pass begin, do not collect R200

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 4 February 201411 February 2014

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 who’s basically ragged on every publication they have ever worked for … then the next best thing to do is obviously start trolling people on Twitter. A public space, where […]

Posted inMedia, Tech

Forget cyberbullying, I suffer from hit remorse

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 7 January 201414 January 2014

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 sense of morality and reared the ugly head of the secret monster. Immediately post-contact, post-hit, post-click, click, click boom I find my heart starts to beat a bit faster. It […]

Posted inLifestyle

A Christmas of eat, pray, love (for beginners)

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 18 December 201318 December 2013

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 a lot of love. Because wow, they are mad. They are mad about a lot of things and I take nothing away from that. Social injustices, gender discrimination, patriarchy, being […]

Posted inNews/Politics

The hunt for the Mandela gene

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 13 December 201313 December 2013

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 lag, sleep deprivation and constant news updates. Many of them, no, most of them involving the verbose sentiments of the current government which spews forth the notion that everyone needs […]

Posted inEquality, Media

Beeld’s irresponsible journalism leads to irresponsible conversation

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 5 November 201314 November 2013

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 they inspire. The cover story in the paper is about a father who was upset about the relationship his daughter was having — he then went ahead and shot his […]

Posted inGeneral, Lifestyle

Hipster Muslim desperately seeks marriage

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 31 October 20135 November 2013

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 Indian Muslim women are limited to when they come from families where one of the parents is rather overly traditional when it comes to stuff like that. Mostly because she […]

Posted inMedia, News/Politics

When Uncle Mac gets spun

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 24 October 201330 October 2013

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: Is there something about his lack of delivery that gets us all riled up instead of laughing? Is it timing? Is it that he does not know his audience well […]

Posted inLifestyle

Thoughts of an outsider at a beauty magazine event

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 17 October 201318 October 2013

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 smart is somewhere in the tag line, you know? Just to balance it all out. In all honesty, I can’t even remember what the title of the affair was. Fragrance […]

Posted inEquality, Lifestyle

An Afrikaans arts festival and fish out of water…

Haji Mohamed Dawjee by Haji Mohamed Dawjee 1 October 20131 October 2013

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 be a fish out of water if you chose to be one. In my head, any situation can be accommodated by opening yourself up to it, learning about it and […]

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