'What a 40 years!' Cape Times editor Aneez Salie celebrates 4 decades at Indy
Cape Times editor Aneez Salie is celebrating 40 years at Independent Media. Cape Times editor Aneez Salie is celebrating 40 years at Independent Media.
Cape Town - This month Cape Times editor Aneez Salie celebrated 40 years of service at Independent Media, a treacherous journey in a wilderness of white liberals towards the promised land of Independence!
"What a 40 years! We've lived through a couple of revolutions... our one, of course, led by our founding president Nelson Mandela," says Salie.
"But also in terms of production. When I started, we used typewriters and hot lead printing," Salie says.
"And from there we moved to computers, which was a massive change, and of course today we are digital - multi-platform, multimedia - so it's a very, very far cry from the typewriter."
And then there's social media.
Watch as the award-winning journalist reflects on his career and witnessing first-hand the dark days of apartheid, the birth of a democratic South Africa and the evolution of Independent Media.