Birgit Schwarz is Communications Manager Africa at Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Based in Johannesburg, she is responsible for media advocacy and outreach in Southern, Central and West Africa.

Before joining HRW in 2011, she held positions as editor, host and reporter with Germany’s biggest public broadcaster WDR, opened and managed the first German Press Agency office in South Korea.

She worked as an investigative reporter and editor for Die Zeit and as Asia editor and foreign correspondent for Der Spiegel, Europe’s major investigative news magazine.

A German national, she came to South Africa in 1997 as Der Spiegel’s Africa Correspondent.

Birgit Schwarz is Communications Manager Africa at Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Based in Johannesburg, she is responsible for media advocacy and outreach in Southern, Central and West Africa.
Before joining HRW in 2011, she held positions as editor, host and reporter with Germany&rsquo;s biggest public broadcaster WDR, opened and managed the first German Press Agency office in South Korea.
She worked as an investigative reporter and editor for Die Zeit and as Asia editor and foreign correspondent for Der Spiegel, Europe&rsquo;s major investigative news magazine.
A German national, she came to South Africa in 1997 as Der Spiegel&rsquo;s Africa Correspondent.

The programme discusses current issues pertaining to South Africa and the continent as a whole. The talk show hosts various experts on interesting and important issues affecting Africa and the globe.

The programme discusses current issues pertaining to South Africa and the continent as a whole.