Hack with a Grenade: An Editor’s Backstories of SA News
  • 2020/151 pages
  • Distributed for Best Red, an imprint of HSRC Press

Hack with a Grenade:

An Editor’s Backstories of SA News

Gasant Abarder
Paperback: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-928246-38-1
Hack with a Grenade offers a newspaper editor's perspective on the characters that shape South Africa's psyche.

In a book that is one part humor and one part social commentary, Gasant Abarder draws on his broad experiences as a journalist to tackle such issues as religion, prejudice, and injustice. Sharing tales of his encounters with people from all walks of life, he slyly encourages readers to leave behind their preconceptions and focus on the traits that are common to all humanity.


Gasant Abarder, currently the media, marketing, and communications manager for the University of the Western Cape, worked for more than two decades as a reporter and editor in print, radio, and television newsrooms in Cape Town and Johannesburg.