Phillip de Wet
Phillip de Wet is a South African journalist and the author of .
In October 2017 he won a national journalism award for a column about wine gums.
De Wet was the founding deputy editor of daily online newspaper Daily Maverick, which credited him with much of its initial personality. He was also a founder of that website's defunct predecessor magazine, Maverick.
In October 2015 he was appointing as acting deputy editor of newspaper Mail & Guardian. Five years earlier that newspaper had described him as a "journalism school dropout".
In February 2017 police sought to question De Wet about the leak of a draft government report he had written about.
In January 2018 De Wet was appointed as associated editor of Business Insider South Africa.
