He has won numerous awards for his journalism,[1] and activism, and serves as a social cohesion ambassador for the South African government.
Abramjee's family was the last to leave Lady Selborne, in 1984, as a consequence of the Group Areas Act, moving to Laudium, an Indian township in Pretoria.
[2][4] After graduating in 1985, Abramjee taught Afrikaans at Laudium Secondary School, before taking a job with the House of Delegates as a spokesman, and then joining the SABC.
[1] Among his many accolades, Abramjee added a feather to his cap when he became the first non-white person to be elected chairman of the National Press Club (NPC) in its 22-year history.
Fisher was responding to a controversy involving Abramjee when he penned an open letter to then-president Jacob Zuma, calling for the government to act on the crime problem in South Africa.