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Arthur Maimane (John Arthur Mogale Maimane) was born on 5 October, 1932 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a South African journalist and novelist (1932–2005). Discover Arthur Maimane's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As John Arthur Mogale Maimane
Occupation Novelist, journalist
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 5 October 1932
Birthday 5 October
Birthplace Pretoria, South Africa
Date of death 28 June, 2005
Died Place London, England
Nationality South Africa

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1932

John Arthur Mogale Maimane (5 October 1932 – 28 June 2005), better known as Arthur Maimane, was a South African journalist and novelist.

Maimane was born in Pretoria, South Africa, growing up in the black township of Lady Selborne.

He was educated at St Peter's College, Johannesburg, also known as the "Black Eton" of South Africa (Oliver Tambo was his mathematics teacher before becoming a lawyer and president of the African National Congress).

Maimane was originally intending to study medicine, when a young priest, Trevor Huddleston (who was involved in the Sophiatown forced removals), persuaded him to take a vacation job at Drum magazine.

As a result, Maimane choose journalism as his life career.

He was a versatile journalist for Drum, covering a wide spectrum of subjects, including writing sports reports, thriller and interviews with beauty queens and other celebrities.

1950

Joining Drum in the early 1950s, he was mentored by Henry Nxumalo.

1956

The photograph of Maimane in Anthony Sampson's 1956 book Drum: A Venture into the New Africa, "trilby on back of head, cigarette dangling", is an amusing take-off of the Hollywood "newshound" image, but conceals his innate seriousness as a reporter and analyst of the world around him.

Under the pseudonym Arthur Mogale, he wrote a regular series for Drum entitled "The Chief", in which he described gangster incidents he had heard about in the shebeens.

Don Mattera, a leading Sophiatown gangster, took exception to this: "The gangsters were pissed off with him and there was a word out that we should wipe this guy off."

Maimane moved to Golden City Post, Drum magazine's sister daily paper, as the news editor but he did not stay long.

1958

In 1958, the year after his friend Nxumalo was murdered by unknown assailants, Maimane moved to Ghana to work on the West African edition of Drum.

1961

Moving to London in 1961, the young editor accepted a position at Reuters and was posted to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as its East African correspondent.

There Maimane met his second wife, Jenny, and, when he was deported from Tanzania, after refusing the founding editorship of TANU's new daily and for critically reporting political events, they both returned to London, England.

He worked for the BBC African Service at Bush House for a while, and then moved to ITN.

1976

In 1976, Maimane's novel Victims was published in London by Allison and Busby but was banned in South Africa, although the English Academy of South Africa awarded Maimane its Pringle Award for Creative Writing in 1978.

1994

After the 1994 elections in South Africa, he returned and was appointed Features editor of the liberal Weekly Mail.

He also wrote a column for the Sunday Independent.

After a brief return to England, he was appointed editor of the Star, South Africa's biggest daily newspaper (1994–97).

1996

His post-apartheid play, Hang On In There, Nelson, was performed at the Windybrow Theatre in Johannesburg and at the State Theatre in Pretoria, in 1996.

2000

His novel Victims was republished in 2000 as Hate No More.

2001

In 2001, Maimane and his wife returned to London.

2005

Maimane died in 2005 in London, aged 72.