Justice Malala writes regular opinion columns for Bloomberg (global), and for the Financial Mail and TimesLive in South Africa. Malala’s work has been published in the Financial Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Times of London, and many others. In 2023, The Economist magazine said he is “perhaps the country’s [South Africa] most astute political commentator." Malala was the founding editor of the South African newspaper ThisDay and between 2007 and 2012, was general manager of TimesMedia’s (now Arena Holdings) stable of 44 magazines. He has also been the general manager of The Sowetan and Sunday World newspapers.
Malala is the author of four books. The latest, The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation, was published in Canada, the UK, the U.S.A., and South Africa in 2023. It reached number one on the South African best-seller list in April 2023 and was a finalist for the Sunday Times Alan Paton non-fiction book award 2024. It was also hailed as “gripping and important” by The Guardian, “trenchant” by Foreign Affairs, “masterful, compelling, fast-moving” by The Conversation, and the Financial Times said it “wonderfully captures the spirit of the time.”
At MacDowell, Malala worked on a coming-of-age novel, This Is My Last Summer Here, set in Los Angeles.
