Barry Streek

Barry Streek was educated at Michaelhouse in Kwazulu-Natal where he wrote for and was a member of the board of the Beacon, a student run journal. After which he completed his mandatory national service in the South African Navy in 1966. From 1967 to 1970 Streek studied politics and law at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, while contributing to the Daily Dispatch and other publications. ==Anti-apartheid activities==

At Rhodes he joined the anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students In 1984 he founded the Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT), a non-profit organisation that works to assist and help develop poor rural communities in South Africa. In 1999 Streek co-founded the Ditikeni Investment Company to help fund non-profit civil society organisations that had declined due to a lack of donor funding in the post-apartheid era. ==Career as a journalist==

25 years of Streek's long career as a political journalist was spent in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Cape Town. In that role he was especially noted for his ability to find and legally publish news about the apartheid government that the government wanted to keep hidden from the public. For most of this time Streek worked for South African Associated Newspapers which at the time included the Cape Times, the Eastern Province Herald, the Rand Daily Mail, the Sunday Express, and the Sunday Times. Streek was, at different times, chairperson, vice chairperson and president of the Cape Town Press Club. He became Parliament's media manager in 2001 before returning to the press gallery as a correspondent for the Mail & Guardian newspaper. After which he became editor-in-chief for publishing house Jonathan Ball. ==Death and legacy==

He died after an 18-month battle with brain cancer in 2006. In March 2006 SCAT renamed SCAT House, the organisation's headquarters in Cape Town city center, Barry Streek House and initiated a series of awards in honour of him. The Cape Town Press Club initiated a scholarship for people from previously disadvantaged backgrounds to study journalism at Rhodes University.{{cite web ==List of books==

• {{cite book • Survey of Race Relations in South Africa, 1983. Carole Cooper, Muriel Horrell, Barry Streek. South African Institute of Race Relations. • {{cite book ==References==