Obituary

Raymond Louw: SA's greatest newspaper editor and fighter for a free press

Ex-Rand Daily Mail editor stood up to the Nats, the ANC - and his own board

09 June 2019 - 00:00 By CHRIS BARRON

Raymond Louw, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 92, was arguably SA's greatest newspaper editor and champion of media freedom...

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