Graham Ferreira

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Graham Ferreira is a South African journalist and film maker. After leaving school in the early sixties he joined the South African Police Force but, dissatified with this career, he resigned and opted for journalism instead. He was for many years with the Cape Times. He was always keenly interested in environmental issues and, as society "greened" in the sixties and seventies, became the first journalist in South Africa to be designated "an environmental reporter" for a major newspaper. He took this role seriously and reported on issues relating to the environment and ecology. This brought him into conflict with various vested interests and lead to a personal spat with the Prime Minister, P. W. Botha.

Ferriera was one of the journalists involved in the experiment that lead accidentally to the creation of the myth of the Submarine Shark in False Bay in the seventies.

In his early years Ferriera was a very accomplished rock climber and SCUBA diver and he later used his talents and his knowledge of the outdoors in southern Africa to make a number of documentary movies. Some were made on the reefs of Mozambique and others in the deep caves of northern Namibia. The latter films included the first underwater footage shot in famous sinkholes and caves such as Harisib and Guinas.

Ferriera currently lives in Durban and works in public relations.