David Beresford

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Beresford
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 1, 1947(1947-07-01)
Age	77
Date Of Death	April 22, 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa
Birthplace	Johannesburg
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Cancer

David Beresford Biography

David Beresford is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 1, 1947 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

He attended the University of Cape Town, studying English and law, but left before the end of his second year. In 1968, he married Marianne Morrell, whom he met at university.

Dreaming of working on Fleet Street, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1974 with his wife, leaving their young child with her mother. Working on a three- month visa, he worked as a cub reporter for the South Wales Echo and The Argus in Sussex. He started up a “long process of pestering The Guardian editor for a job” and moved to London to work for the South African Morning Group bureau. After many more letters, he finally secured a job with The Guardian, for which he wrote the rest of his life.

David Beresford Net Worth

David Beresford is one of the richest Journalist from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Beresford 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Ross St John Beresford (1 July 1947 – 22 April 2016) was a South African journalist who was a long-time correspondent for The Guardian newspaper. Posted to Belfast at the height of the Troubles, he was the author of Ten Men Dead (1987), a book about the 1981 Irish hunger strike in Maze prison in Northern Ireland, which has been called one of the best books ever written about the Troubles. He was later The Guardian’ s correspondent in Johannesburg, where he became noted for his coverage of the end of apartheid, breaking the news of some of the most significant events and scandals in the 1980s and ’90s. Beresford was among the most prominent figures in South African journalism, and played a significant role in rescuing The Mail & Guardian in the early ’90s.

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Beresford was among a trio of journalists who brought about the “Inkathagate” scandal in 1991 at the height of the war between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and African National Congress (ANC). Beresford helped expose that the state security police had been secretly funneling money to IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Their reports led to the resignation of two key apartheid figures, Louis le Grange, the Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, and Adriaan Vlok, the Minister of Law and Order, and “forever tainted” Buthelezi.

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Clifford Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. David Beresford celebrates birthday on July 1 of every year.

In 1994, Beresford wrote in The Guardian that Justice Richard Goldstone ran a “much vaunted” judicial commission of inquiry that “failed dismally”, and that was a “rubbish bin” used by the South African government. He discussed Goldstone’s “disturbing” practice by which he acted with “overt political ‘sensitivity”, including his being “at pains to involve the politically distinguished in the conduct of his inquiry”; and of harboring such ambition to succeed Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s post as UN Secretary-General, that Goldstone’s legal colleagues gave him the nickname of “Richard-Richard”.