Branko Brkic is the founder, publisher and editor of The Daily Maverick and iMaverick.co.za.

He has edited magazines on business and politics, technology, and wildlife. He has also published fiction and non-fiction books, most of them in Serbian. Though he has never pretended to be a reporter, his wide knowledge of politics (especially in America), combined with his experiences in a disintegrating Yugoslavia, gives him an unusual outlook on events in South Africa.

Despite the vowel-poor surname, he tells anyone who asks that he hails from Hyde Park, Johannesburg, having spent most of his adult life in South Africa.

Email him at az.oc.kcirevamyliadeht@oknarb and follow him on Twitter at @BrankoBrkic.