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People of Note - Tony Heard

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This Rodney Trudgeon and my guest on People of Note this week is the distinguished editor and author TONY HEARD whose latest book called 8000 Days – The Inside Story of an Editor in the Corridors of Power. The book traces the career of Tony after he’d been invited to be a special advisor to Mandela and Mbeki as well as other prominent politicians. Tony Heard was famously fired as Editor of the Cape Times in 1985 after he published an interview with Oliver Tambo who was banned at the time. The book is a fascinating record of how the government works from the inside and I invited Tony into the PoN studio to talk about the book and about his career.
10 Jul 2022 English South Africa TV & Film

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