Leading Political Analyst
Justice Malala is one of the country’s most respected Political Analyst.
He is a political commentator, newspaper columnist and writes regular weekly columns for The Times newspaper and the Financial Mail magazine. Justice also presents a weekly political talk show (The Justice Factor on the independent eNews Channel, Sundays at 9.30am and 12.30pm). He is the resident political analyst for e.tv and eNews Channel Africa.
Between 2007 and September 2011 Malala was general manager of Avusa Media (now Times Media Group)’s stable of 44 magazines and, following that, general manager of the Sowetan and Sunday World newspapers.
Justice is a regular contributor to the Guardian in London and his work has been published internationally in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Independent, Forbes, Institutional Investor, The Age and The Observer. He has also contributed to BBC Online and Deutsche Welle.
He has given talks and rendered political advisory to international and local institutions such as JP Morgan, Liberty, Lehman Brothers, Old Mutual, Investec and Edcon.
Justice is a judge on the country’s most prestigious investigative journalism award, the Taco Kuiper Awards for Investigative Journalism. He was awarded the Foreign Correspondents Association Award for Courageous Journalism in 1997. His collection of satirical Financial Mail columns, Let Them Eat Cake, is available at all good bookshops.
He was named by the New Yorker magazine as one of the eight most fascinating Africans of 2012 along with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Malawian president Joyce Banda.
Justice is also the author of “We Have Now Begun Our Descent”.