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Phillip de Wet
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Writer at Large, News24
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Biography
Phillip de Wet is a British-South African journalist, editor, and columnist. He is the former foreign editor of News24, where he publishes a weekly column on geopolitics and foreign affairs. De Wet was the founding deputy editor of daily online newspaper Daily Maverick, which credited him with much of its initial personality. He was also a founder of that website's defunct predecessor magazine, Maverick. In October 2015 he was appointing as acting deputy editor of newspaper Mail & Guardian. Five years earlier that newspaper had described him as a "journalism school dropout". In February 2018 De Wet was appointed as associated editor of Business Insider South Africa He remained at Media24, the publisher of Business Insider South Africa, first as a writer at large for News24 and then its foreign editor, until January 2025.
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News24
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
+91 12039 11444
Founded: 2007