A Rumour of Spring

Max du Preez is one of South Africa's foremost investigative journalists. After working as a political correspondent for various newspapers, he founded Vrye Weekblad, South Africa's first anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper, in 1988, and in the 1990s he launched the television programmes Special Report on the Truth Commission and Special Assignment. Max's documentary ?lm on King Moshoeshoe, The Renaissance King, aired on South African television in 2004. His books include Pale Native, Of Lovers, Warriors and Prophets, Oranje Blanje Blues and Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats. He is currently a political columnist for various newspapers and websites. Among his awards are the Pringle Award from the South African Society of Journalists, the Louis M Lyons Award from the Nieman Fellows at Harvard University, and the Excellence in Journalism award from the Southern African Foreign Correspondents Association. He was the 2006 Yale Globalist International Journalist of the Year and the 2008 recipient of the Nat Nakasa Award for integrity and courage in journalism. He is a fellow in Applied Leadership Values at the University of Fort Hare, an honorary research associate at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, and Extraordinary Professor at the School of Communications at North-West University.