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Garreth Bloor: Staff reporter

Garreth is an international journalist based in Cape Town. He has an Honours degree from the UCT Department of Film and Media Studies and served as a researcher in the department. After an active role in student media, he began at British Sky Broadcasting writing for Sky News and locally has served Avusa Media and a range of local and international publications. In 2007 he worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC and has to date conducted work on three continents, receiving a Culture of Enterprise Award from former US Attorney General Edwin Meese III for his work on “enterprise and a humane economy”. He has contributed to over a dozen South African publications, including exclusive interviews with political and business leaders and regularly addresses conferences at home and abroad. Garreth is passionate about the development of future journalists. In 2008 founded Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) at UCT, which currently runs an online platform for budding journalists, amongst the other initiatives.

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