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Bring together a French explorer, a Scottish engineer, a New
Zealand-born TV presenter, a murderer, a medical writer, an
international tennis star, a professor, a judge, an Australian-born
farmer, an Afrikaans playwright, a Jewish diamond prospector, a
frantic mother, two famous African writers, a variety of white and
black novelists, editors and journalists, not forgetting a
San/Bushman mother - and something amusing should result. These men
and women of different races, different centuries, different
cultures (ranging from American-Irish to Zulu), have one
distinction in common - each has been identified as among the most
entertaining writers of English-language humour in South Africa in
the last 200 years.
The book is part follow-on of Tyson’s easy to read and fascinating
autobiography The Other Side – Behind the News 1 where the reader
is taken on a vicarious, and often humorous, journey through the
landmark South African and world events he witnessed on his watch.
But it is much more than that, too. Unpacking the history of the
printed press – and its imminent demise, hence the book’s title –
and the challenges that have and always will face the Fourth
Estate, this book is a must-read for any journalist or student of
journalism. Tyson also expounds on his vision of the future of
credible online journalism and stresses the importance of online
news portals and content providers subscribing to the
tried-and-tested credos and ethics of leading printed newspaper
brands such as The New York Times.
He wrote on politics and racism before the word ‘apartheid’ ever
made headlines. He has questioned southern African leaders from
Drs. Malan and Verwoerd to Vorster, PW Botha, FW de Klerk to the
first president of Zambia, Kenneth Kuanda, and President Mugabe;
including global leaders such as President Mandela, General Smuts,
President Gerald Ford and Britain’s Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan. Why The Other Side? In part one of Tyson’s remarkable
autobiography he encourages views that are different to the fixed
positions which most people hold on both sides of the political
divide. He writes lightly about his most dangerous moments, and
sympathetically about those who struggle to help others. He invites
you to look at the situation from ‘the other side’ – wherever
confrontation arises.
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