Tanya de Vente-Bijker is a freelance journalist and executive committee member of the National Press Club which honours Qoboza annually on October 19. The 1970s were a turbulent time. Not an easy place for a journalist in South Africa. Reporters faced the possibility of being arrested, interrogated, assaulted,…
The information about the club’s history was compiled by Tanya de Vente-Bijker. She is completing her master’s degree in Journalism on the history of the National Press Club. Today, 12 July 2018, the National Press Club celebrates its 40th anniversary. On 12 July 1978, the Pretoria Press Club…
Tanya de Vente-Bijker is a freelance journalist and radio presenter, executive member of the National Press Club for the past ten years and busy doing her master’s degree in Journalism on the history of the National Press Club. In 1978 late journalist Bernadi Wessels, then at the Rand…
