CORPORATE NEWSMAN, a life of integrity

292pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9780624094241

Autobiography by journalist and commentator turned senior business executive Dr Kaizer Nyatsumba.

Kaizer Nyatsumba was born on a farm at White River in Mpumalanga in 1963. He studied at the University of Zululand, Georgetown University, USA, and the University of Hull, UK. He began his journalistic career in 1988 as a junior reporter at The Star in Johannesburg, and rose to become the first black editor of a mainstream newspaper, The Independent on Saturday, in 1997. He went on to work as a senior business executive on listed and non-listed companies in South Africa, including Anglo American, Coca-Cola South Africa, Sasol and PetroSA. He is currently Managing Director of KMN Consulting.

"We meet many Kaiser Nyatsumbas in this revelatory book. Not an ordinary life." Peter Sullivan, The Star, former editor-in-chief