South Africa: Alide Dasnois Exemplifies Quiet Integrity and Commitment to Quality Media

8 December 2013
editorial

Alide Dasnois has been fired from her position as editor of the Cape Times.

This follows the publication in Friday's Cape Times that the "public protector found Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson guilty of maladministration, improper and unethical conduct in the irregular awarding of an R800-million tender to the Sekunjalo consortium to manage the state's fishery vessels." Sekunjalo has recently bought Independent Newspapers which publishes the Cape Times.

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