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Hills, William
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William Hills (1869-1959)
William Hills came to South Africa in 1895 as reporter for the "Port Elizabeth Advertiser", and thereafter worked on several newspapers in Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Durban. He served as special war correspondent in the last campaign against the Zulu in Magatoland 1898 and interviewed Cecil Rhodes after the Jameson Raid. Later he formed the Amalgamated Press in 1921, and was the editor of 6 Rand papers. He undertook extensive tours overseas which were reported in his chain of newspapers. William Hills was interested in matters of education, religion, labour movement.