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Arthur Maimane

Died in 2005

Arthur Maimane was born on 5 October 1932 in Pietersburg and grew up in the township of Lady Selborne. A pupil at St Peter's College in Johannesburg, he joined Drum in the early 1950s, where he wrote, under the name Arthur Mogale, a crime series about a detective called “the Chief”. He left for Ghana in 1958, joined Reuters in London in 1961, was expelled from Tanzania, then worked for the BBC and for ITN. Back in South Africa after 1990, he was editor of the Star from 1994 to 1997 and died in London on 28 June 2005.

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