Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois was fired by Iqbal Surve, executive chairperson of the Sekunjalo Consortium, the day after Mandela's death.
The same day the paper led with a story about irregularities in the awarding of an R800 million tender to a Sekunjalo subsidiary by Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
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