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Gavin Evans on fathers, faith and fearless reporting in South Africa | SA News

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When I meet Gavin Evans on a Friday morning, it’s to talk about his memoir Son of a Preacher Man, which he’s visiting South Africa to promote. 

But I’m more interested in hearing what it was like to report for the Mail & Guardian in the dying days of apartheid. Evans was one of the first reporters hired by the paper.  

It was the mid-Eighties, and Evans had just started his career in Gqeberha, then known as Port Elizabeth. “My journalism career started at the Eastern Province Herald in ’84,” he recalls.

“There was a company then called South African Associated Newspapers. They had a three-month…

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