Marlan Padayachee GreenGold Africa Communications

At GreenGold Publishing, publishing editor Marlan Padayachee commissions titles, develops manuscripts, liaises with authors, manages publishing programmes, negotiates with printing houses and potential sponsors, networks with academic institutions and established and emerging publishers and booksellers, works closely with marketing and branding teams, arranges pre- and post-publicity in the print and electronic media and co-ordinate book launches.
Marlan Padayachee Media provides a full-house service of conceptualising a media and communication product to the final stages of printing and publishing, including editorial copywriting, editing, photography, imaging and design and layout. The following publications were produced: Greyville Gazette (In house newspaper for Independent Newspapers KZN), PwCpeople (In house newspaper for PricewaterhouseCoopers KZN), DDP Diary (ocassional publication for the Democracy Development Program, Durban), Alumni & Anecdotes (occasional publication for the University of KwaZulu-Natal), and corporate business profile and brochures for Dream-Plus and Firecheck.
Marlan Padayachee, media adviser and communications consultant to PricewaterhouseCoopers, created and conceptualised PwCpeople as an internal staff magazine, and contributes editorial and photographic service to this quarterly publication produced by PwC Durban's Marketing Department.
Marlan Padayachee writes a regular commentary on a changing South Africa in his column, Left of What's Right, for Juluka, an American-based Magazine Embracing South Africa and her People, edited by Charlene Avis and aimed at a readership of more than 20 000 South Africans living and working abroad.
Editorial and photographic contributors to the following publications: UKZN Indaba and UKZN In Touch alumni magazine for the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa-India Independence Day supplement for Media Com published in the Sunday Tribune
Publishers of PwCPeople for PricewaterhouseCoopers, DDP Diary for the Democracy Development Programme, Alumni & Anecdotes for the University of KwaZulu-Natal, contributor to the UKZN Alumni and UKZN Indaba.
. THE INDIAN ANNUAL – Focusing on South Africans of Indian descent
SINCE the 1990s, Marlan Padayachee has contributed a series of articles, features and commentary and photography on leading personalities, high-achievers and a changing South Africa in the Indian Annual, a national publication that focuses every year on South Africa’s 1,3-million strong Indian community.
Some of the features include a series entitled Wordsmiths and Lensmen, a focus on journalists and photographs of Indian descent; The End of An Era which highlighted the careers of anti-apartheid campaigners and critics like Judge Hassan Mall, Ismail Meer, Appiah Saravan Chetty, a Pietermaritzburg activist and South Africa’s first Chief Justice of colour, Ismail Mahomed; followed by the 1946 Passive Resisters, a catalogue of the struggle by Indian and African people who were imprisoned for resisting a plethora of apartheid laws; the publication of a rare interview with President Thabo Mbeki at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1987, when Mbeki was the ANC’s Director of Foreign Affairs; and an insight into a visit to Robben Island in 2001.
Photographic coverage includes Marlan Padayachee’s foreign assignment for Independent Newspapers South Africa with President Nelson Mandela to India in 1995, including a visit to Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram in India.
NOTE: Copies of the Indian Annual catalogue are available from Marlan Padayachee Media and GreenGold 083 796 7162/083 792 1762/031 266 1762/ greengold@telkomsa.net or mapmedia@telkomsa.net