Eusebius McKaiser explained

Eusebius McKaiser
Birth Date:1978 3, df=y
Birth Place:Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa
Death Place:Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Nationality:South African
Alma Mater:Rhodes University
St Antony's College, Oxford University

Eusebius McKaiser (28 March 1978 – 30 May 2023) was a South African political analyst, journalist, and broadcaster.[1] [2] Among others, he wrote for the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The New York Times, and Business Day, for which he wrote a weekly column.[3] [4] He gained prominence as a Radio 702 talk show host, and also wrote three books about South African politics and society.

Life and career

Eusebius McKaiser was born on 28 March 1978,[5] in Grahamstown, Cape Province, where his working-class family lived in a coloured township. He attended St Mary's Primary School and Graeme College, and matriculated from the latter in 1996.[6] From 1997, he attended Rhodes University, graduating with distinction with a bachelor's degree in law and philosophy, an honours degree, and, in 2003, a master's degree in philosophy, with a thesis on moral objectivity.[6] [7] [8] Between 2005 and 2006,[9] he attended the University of Oxford (St Antony's College) on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he received a BPhil[10] and did doctoral research – never completed – under Ralph Wedgwood and John Broome, also in moral philosophy.[6] [11] [12] He was also an Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Scholar.

McKaiser later worked as an associate consultant at McKinsey & Company, and by 2012 was a political and social analyst at the Wits Centre for Ethics and at the University of Johannesburg Centre for the Study of Democracy. The first radio show he hosted at Radio 702 was a weekly late-night talk show called Politics and Morality.[1] He hosted the SABC 3 current affairs programme Interface until 2011,[13] [14] and later anchored 702's Talk@9 show on week nights.[15]

When Power FM launched on 18 June 2013, he began as host of Power Talk, a three-hour weekday morning talk show.[16] In October 2014, he left Power FM – according to the station, due to insoluble disagreements between him and the station[17] – and returned to Radio 702 in July 2016, taking over from Redi Thlabi with a weekday morning talk slot.[18] [19] According to the Mail & Guardian, through his radio work, McKaiser had "etched himself on the national psyche" by 2013. Pumla Dineo Gqola later said that his morning show on 702, the Eusebius McKaiser Show, "shaped everyday dialogue and, with it, the culture of our time," and compliment McKaiser's "heartbreaking, illuminating and often joyful intellectual work."[20]

McKaiser left Radio 702 in June 2020,[21] [22] because the station had not been prepared to dedicate adequate resources to the production of his show.[23] He then hosted a podcast called In the Ring and, on YouTube, an Exclusive Books show about books called Cover to Cover.[24] [25]

McKaiser died due to a suspected epileptic seizure on 30 May 2023, at age 44.[26] [27]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faull. Lionel. 14 June 2010. 200 Young South Africans: Civil Society. 19 January 2022. The Mail & Guardian. en-ZA.
  2. Web site: 2020. Public Life: Past, Present and Future. 19 January 2022. Archive & Public Culture Research Institute. University of Cape Town. en. 17 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210917141659/http://www.apc.uct.ac.za/news/public-life-colloquium. dead.
  3. Web site: Zmomuya. Percy. 20 June 2013. Eusebius McKaiser: Presenter pumps up the power. 19 January 2022. Mail & Guardian. en-ZA.
  4. Web site: Kings. Sipho. 5 August 2011. My Cultural Life: Eusebius Mckaiser. 19 January 2022. Mail & Guardian. en-ZA.
  5. 1376072424853225472. Eusebius. Thanks for your birthday wishes so early in the day already!. Eusebius McKaiser. 28 March 2021. Sandton, Johannesburg.
  6. Web site: 27 January 2011. He's clever, talented and famous... and he's ours. 19 January 2022. Grocott's Mail.
  7. McKaiser. Eusebius. In defence of moral objectivity. 2002. Master's. Rhodes University.
  8. Web site: 2 May 2013. Mr Eusebius McKaiser (Emerging Old Rhodian Award). 19 January 2022. Rhodes University. en-US.
  9. Web site: Eusebius McKaiser. 19 January 2022. The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust.
  10. Web site: 2023-06-05 . Eusebius McKaiser: a tribute to a much-loved and brilliant Antonian . 2023-09-20 . St Antony's College . en.
  11. Web site: McKaiser. Eusebius. 20 March 2015. Degrees of excellence: Eusebius vs Godzille. 19 January 2022. The Mail & Guardian. en-ZA.
  12. Web site: 20 March 2015. I never claimed an Oxford degree – Eusebius McKaiser. 19 January 2022. Politicsweb. en.
  13. Web site: 17 July 2011. SABC axes two over 'politics'. 19 January 2022. Citypress. en-US.
  14. Web site: Zvomuya. Percy. 5 October 2012.
    1. AngryBlacks: Seeking out the Bantu in his bathroom
    . 19 January 2022. The Mail & Guardian. en-ZA.
  15. Web site: Ndlovu. Andile. 9 May 2013. McKaiser turns down Power FM. 19 January 2022. Sunday Times. en-ZA.
  16. Web site: Nicholson. G.. Eaton. J.. 5 June 2013. Power FM to the people. 19 January 2022. Daily Maverick. en.
  17. Web site: 18 December 2014. Power FM Radio Host Azania Mosaka resigns. 19 January 2022. The Mail & Guardian. en-ZA.
  18. Web site: Oberholzer. Gary. 10 July 2016. Listeners can tune in to new voices on 702. 19 January 2022. 702. en-ZA.
  19. Web site: Smith. David L.. 24 June 2020. An honest look back at radio amid Eusebius McKaiser storm. 19 January 2022. Daily Maverick. en.
  20. Web site: Dineo Gqola. Pumla. 2 July 2020. The cultural impact of The Eusebius McKaiser Show. 19 January 2022. New Frame.
  21. Web site: Morkel. Graye. 11 June 2020. Eusebius McKaiser leaves Radio 702. 19 January 2022. News24. en-US.
  22. Web site: Jordaan. Nomahlubi. 11 June 2020. Eusebius McKaiser to leave 702. 19 January 2022. Sunday Times. en-ZA.
  23. Web site: Jika. Thanduxolo. 20 August 2020. 702: Vitriol dims the radio's star. 19 January 2022. The Mail & Guardian. en-ZA.
  24. Web site: In The Ring With Eusebius McKaiser. 19 January 2022. Apple Podcasts. en-GB.
  25. Web site: 16 February 2021. 'Cover to Cover': Jonathan Jansen to talk about his new book. 19 January 2022. The South African. en-ZA.
  26. Web site: Eusebius McKaiser dies from suspected epileptic seizure .
  27. Web site: Bhengu . Cebelihle . BREAKING Author, broadcaster Eusebius McKaiser has died . 30 May 2023 . News24 . en-US.