Pretorius, Charl

CHARL PRETORIUS (43) is South Africa's most accredited horseracing journalist and an award-winning writer in mainstream journalism. In a stretch of over 24 years in newspapers, magazines and electronic media he has served on most major dailies in Johannesburg. He started his career at the Afrikaans Newspaper Beeld followed by stints at Sunday Times, Business Day and The Citizen, where he was instrumental in launching the popular tabloid, Racing Express as founding editor in 2003. Pretorius also edited Computaform, contributed to SA Horseman and still writes on occasion for its successor, Parad...