Gwen Lister

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gwen Lister
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 5, 1953(1953-12-05)
Age	71
Birthplace	East London
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Eastern Cape
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Gwen Lister Biography

Gwen Lister is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 5, 1953 in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Growing up under the apartheid system, Lister resolved to fight it as an adult, and concluded that Namibia would be a more effective place to do so than South Africa. She attended University of Cape Town in 1975, receiving a bachelor’s degree. After graduation, she went to work as a journalist at Namibia’s Windhoek Advertiser as a political correspondent. She later left the paper after interference in her reporting by her editors.

She and fellow journalist Hannes Smith began the independent weekly Windhoek Observer in 1978. As political editor, Lister wanted to give SWAPO, Namibia’s liberation movement, “a ‘human face’, showing the people, including whites, that they were not the ‘terrorists’ and ‘communists’ and the ‘black threat’ that the colonial regime made them out to be through their blanket propaganda.” She also criticised South Africa’s apartheid practices in Namibia, drawing the government’s anger. The Observer was officially banned in May 1984 after Lister travelled to Zambia to report on Namibian independence talks. Though the ban was lifted after an appeal to Pretoria’s Publications Appeal Board, Observer management demoted her for having brought it on, triggering Lister’s resignation and a walkout of the newspaper’s staff.

Gwen Lister Net Worth

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

Gwen Lister (born 5 December 1953 in East London, South Africa) is a Namibian journalist, publisher, apartheid opponent and press freedom activist.

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In 2000, IPI named her one of 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the previous fifty years. In 2004 she received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Gwen Lister celebrates birthday on December 5 of every year.