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Gasant Abarder

 

Gasant Abarder served as editor of both the Cape Time and the Cape Argus over a career in mainstream media spanning 21 years. His debut book, ‘Hack with a Grenade – An Editor’s Back Stories of SA News’, was published in December 2020 by Best Red – an imprint of HSRC Press. Abarder graduated with a BTech Journalism Degree from Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He served as Deputy Editor of the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) in 2009. Abarder was featured in the media category of the Mail & Guardian’s prestigious Young South Africans publication in 2013