Phillip de Wet
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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 world events.[1]
He is the author of Nkandla: The Great Unravelling.[2]
De Wet was the founding deputy editor of daily online newspaper Daily Maverick, which credited him with much of its initial personality.[3] He was also a founder of that website's defunct predecessor magazine,[4] Maverick.[5]
In October 2015 he was appointing as acting deputy editor of newspaper Mail & Guardian.[6] Five years earlier that newspaper had described him as a "journalism school dropout".[7]
In February 2018 De Wet was appointed as associated editor of Business Insider South Africa.[8]
He remained at Media24, the publisher of Business Insider South Africa, first as a writer at large for News24 (website)[9] and then its foreign editor, until January 2025.