Esteemed editor mourned
RETIRED Cape Times Business editor and Cape Town editor of Business Report Audrey D’Angelo died in her sleep at the age of 87 yesterday.
“She was a brave, perceptive and clever woman, a good reporter, with a wealth of experience, who could pick new things up quickly for herself without having to be taught them. The world is poorer for her passing,” said her son, Alexander D’Angelo.
D’Angelo, who was born in Glasgow, began her career as an intern on a London newspaper in the 1950s. She furthered her career in South Africa at the Cape Argus, the Cape Times and Business Report.
She covered struggles relating to poverty in South Africa and England. Once D’Angelo stood, gagged, alongside colleagues in Burg and Adderley streets in protest against the bannings of the press during the Botha-era of apartheid, at the time when then Cape Times editor Tony Heard was awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom for his part in the anti-apartheid struggle.
D’Angelo had also worked for a Nottinghamshire newspaper as a contemporary of British journalist John Pilger.
Cape Argus editor Aziz Hartley said: “I knew Audrey as a writer who covered aviation matters. She was always on the go to get the next story, and always meticulous when it came to detail. She was one of the friendliest people I had the privilege of interacting with during my time at the Cape Times. May she rest in peace.”