Paper Tiger: Iqbal Surve and the downfall of Independent Newspapers - Alide Dasnois, Chris Whitfield

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First Impression, Tafelberg, 2019, Medium-format Paperback - Journalism - 238pp. ISBN 9780624087175.
Johannesburg Late on Friday night, Iqbal Survé phoned Mandla Mandela, the ailing statesmans grandson: Tell Madiba, Independents coming home, he said. If theres one thing that will make him get better faster, its this, the younger Mandela responded. This is how one of Independent Newspapers titles told its readers in April 2013 that it had been bought by Iqbal Survés Sekunjalo Independent Media Consortium for R2 billion.
The journalists of South Africas biggest newspaper firm, which counted 'The Star', 'Cape Times' and 'The Mercury' among its titles, were optimistic that new, local ownership would mark an end to the callous management of its Irish overlords of the previous two decades. But the day after Nelson Mandela died, a storm engulfed the group when Survé fired 'Cape Times' editor Alide Dasnois amid accusations of disrespect towards Mandela although many pointed to a 'Cape Times' story about one of his companies as the real reason for his ire.