Karima Brown

Karima Brown (1967 – 4 March 2021) was a South African journalist. She worked in a variety of positions, being the political editor for national daily magazine Business Day and launching Forbes Women Africa. She was also known for a court case she took against the Economic Freedom Fighters.

She died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on 4 March 2021 at the age of 54 and she was buried on the same day according to Islamic religion. The South African government paid tribute to her saying that "her contribution to the journalistic profession and fearlessness in carrying out her job will sorely be missed."

As a member of the ANC, as well as a journalist, she occasionally attracted controversy. In October 2006 an internal commission at the SABC agreed with veteran journalist John Perlman that the broadcasting corporation had an arbitrary blacklist of political commentators. The commission of inquiry, headed by Zwelakhe Sisulu and Gilbert Marcus, found that Brown had been blacklisted alongside Aubrey Matshiqi, William Gumede, Paula Slier, Sipho Seepe, Moeletsi Mbeki, Elinor Sisulu, and Trevor Ncube. In 2019 she won a court case against the Economic Freedom Fighters, suing after she received threatening messages when Julius Malema published her cellphone number on social media. The Johannesburg High Court found that the party contravened the electoral code and Brown welcomed the ruling as a “victory for media freedom, a victory against sexism, and [a] victory for women in journalism and protection and freedom of the media”.