as in knowing how to play the game. and the game is called cover your *ss. he doesn't impress as an editor - maybe from a business point of view - protect the profit line - but not from an editorial one. did he even read the column before it went to print?

I'm sorry but his decision is all but professional. The sad truth is that the Afrikaner community is still very much in backward thinking mode! Tim does not have the balls to address a much larger issue - educating the masses.

Du Plessis is editing a newspaper for his readers, the majority of them. And not the minority. The readers are the consumers of whatever the newspaper publishes, but if they find any column in the paper to be out-of-line or not what they have been expecting- then- they have a write to complain. And an editor who hears his readers is one who is heard by his readers.