Rashid Seria is a veteran journalist, editor, activist, and businessman. His journalism career spanned more than 50 years at several major newspapers. He has spent decades championing justice in South Africa through journalism for which he has been detained and instrumental in the founding of a breakaway from the racist SA Society of Journalists SASJ, the revived Union of Black Journalists, the Writers Association of SA and the Media Workers Association of SA. Founding member of alternative newspapers during apartheid, such as Grassroots and South. In the 1990s, he co-founded black empowerment companies such as Brimstone and Sekunjalo. Today, he manages a successful property portfolio grown from a small salon he and his wife, Avril, opened in 1978. Ebony Hair Salon grew into one of the country’s biggest.