OPINION: The book ‘Paper Tiger’ lacks teeth as it only details editors’ bitterness and anguish, writes Unathi Kondile.
Five years after the death of Nelson Mandela, the Cape Times did exactly what Alide Dasnois had done the night he died. They produced a wraparound to celebrate the life and times of Madiba. Except this time, according to Dasnois, no one got fired. That, in a nutshell, sums up the book, Paper Tiger.
Paper Tiger begins by outlining how Dasnois lost her job, in her own words, and is co-written by Chris Whitfield, who once headed Independent’s editors. You can feel the entitlement gleaming through this book’s pages as it tries to position the authors as the victims or prey, in this instance, of the Paper Tiger they identify as “Mr” Iqbal Survé.
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