Cape Town Press Club
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The Cape Town Press Club is the oldest press club in South Africa. Founded in 1975 as a voluntary association of journalists, it has since become a non-profit organisation supporting freedom of the press. It is based in Cape Town, South Africa and hosts public and private gatherings with invited speakers from public life.
Abbreviation | CTPC |
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Formation | 1975; 49 years ago (1975) |
Type | Press club |
Location | |
Chairpersons | Brent Meersman Twanji Kalula |
Secretary | Lalage Maurer |
Website | capetownpc |
The Press Club is a popular venue for speeches by South African politicians and also for speeches by prominent figures in academia and business. It has hosted all five post-apartheid South African presidents.[1] Foreign visitors have included Dick Clark in 1977,[2] David Aubrey Scott in 1977,[3] Jesse Jackson in 1990,[4] David Blunkett in 2008,[5] and Annie Lennox in 2013.[6] Since 2007 the Press Club has held the Barry Streek Memorial Lecture on an annual basis.