Veteran investigative journalist Marianne Thamm, currently Associate Editor of the Daily Maverick, presents an evening of conversation celebrating the strengths of South Africa’s democracy.
Marianne Thamm is a South African journalist, author and stand-up comedian. She has written several books, including the memoir 'Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me'.
Thamm was born in England where her German father had been a prisoner of war and met Thamm's mother, a Portuguese domestic worker. Thamm describes herself as a “half-Portuguese, half-German, recovering Roman Catholic atheist lesbian immigrant”.
