James Styan

James Styan has been the Media Liaison Officer for the Western Cape Minister of Local Government and Environmental Affairs since 2014. Previously James was a senior political correspondent for Media24 in Parliament, after working as a financial reporter in Johannesburg for a number of years. His first book Blackout: The Eskom Crisis was published in 2015.

James studied at the universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch, and qualified as an accountant before becoming a journalist.

Author's books

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Heartbreaker

Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant

In this biography of Chris Barnard we not only learn about the life of South Africa’s most famous surgeon– but James Styan also examines the impact of the historic heart transplant on Barnard’s personal life and South African society at large.

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