Word: journalistic
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Born in 1924 in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Brutus was raised in South Africa by his white father and Black mother, both of whom were schoolteachers. After graduating from college, he worked as a teacher, journalist, and anti-apartheid activist until his arrest in 1963 for violating a government "banning order" that prohibited him, among other things, from attending any meetings. He had gone to a gathering of the South African Olympic Committee as part of his long effort to isolate the country in the sports world...
...Black South African journalist banned by the South African government last week became the first foreign journalist to win the Nieman Foundation's Louis M. Lyons Award for "conscience and integrity" in journalism...
...What has happened to Joe is symbolic of the plight of Black South African journalists," current Nieman Fellow Ameen Akhalwaya said yesterday. "More than any other journalist, he has shown the courage that the award stands for." Akhalways is a political reporter for the South African Rand Daily Mail...
...banned citizen, Thloloe will not be allowed to travel to Cambridge to accept the non-monetary award from the independent journalist foundation. He is currently living in Soweto and studying by correspondence at the University of South Africa in Pretoria...
Past winners of the annual award include Joe Alex Merris '49, who was killed while covering the Iranian revolution, journalist and author David L. Halberstam '55, and consumer activist Ralph Nader...