About Jacques Pauw

Jacques Pauw author of Little Ice-Cream Boy, is one of Africa’s most prominent and decorated journalists. He has spent most of his twenty-four years in journalism at the forefront of South Africa and the continent’s most telling developments, whether it was exposing Apartheid’s death squads in South Africa, making television documentaries about the genocide in Rwanda, telling the story of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, crossing the Sahara in search of the fabled Timbuktu manuscripts or covering South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In the late eighties he was a founder member and assistant editor of the anti-Apartheid Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad (Free Weekly). Afterwards he became the investigations editor of The Star newspaper, a founder member of the SABC’s Truth Commission Special Report and founder member and head of Special Assignment, the SABC’s premier current affairs show. He resigned from the SABC in September 2007 and is currently a freelance journalist.

He has been named as South Africa’s Journalist of the Year and was twice CNN’s African Journalist of the Year. Pauw has written several non-fiction books. Little Ice Cream Boy is his first work of fiction.