HIS entry into the world of journalism might have come shortly after a random July 1967 meeting with a newspaper editor at an eatery in Durban’s Casbah.
But by the time Dennis Pather retired in 2010, the imprint he had made on the profession – mostly on broadsheets – was plucky, purposeful, and pronounced.
Swatches from Pather’s lengthy journalism career are weaved into Copy Boy: Journey from Newsroom Gofer to Award-winning Editor, a memoir he penned, which will be launched at the Durban International Book Fair on August 12.
Having started as a cub reporter with the old Golden City Post newspaper after bumping into its editor, GR Naidoo, at