South Africa: Rent a Crowd Protest - an Attack On Media Freedom

18 December 2013
opinion

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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