Mampara of the week: Iqbal Survé
WHAT'S UP, DOC?
To staff at Independent Media, he's the "Doc" who's made the company a laughing stock and wants to get rid of scores of them in his latest wave of retrenchments.
To Dan Matjila, he's defender-in-chief, which in most reasonable minds reinforces suspicions about the probity of the PIC chief.
To Dougie Oakes, who wrote a rude blog post about his former boss this week, he's someone "neck-deep in a hole which he dug for himself - and slowly, but surely, it is filling up with s**t".
To columnist Chris Roper, he's the "apparent love-child of a strutting peacock and a cheap piñata".
To the bewildered remaining readers of his titles, he's the creepy dude who hijacks front pages to send personal hate mail.
And to us, Iqbal Survé is a skelm with three degrees who's a third-degree mampara...
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