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with each other. They believed understanding was needed for tolerance, which could in future avert the horrors of World War 2, which they had just lived through.John had been shipping editor of the Cape Argus for 20 years and had written a best-selling book called Skeleton Coast, a factual account of the human drama surrounding the wreck of the Dunedin Star off the coast of Namibia during the war. He wrote his first news report for The Argusat the age of 14 when a ship called the Vestr i s, which he had photographed after school one day, sank after leaving Cape Town. He was passionate about the dramas that played out at sea. He built up a collection of photographs of some 10 000 ships that had called at the Cape, including almost every ship between 1928 and 1942. Many became war casualties, and in his retirement he tracked down the histories and stories of many of them in his maritime research centre.John founded our freight media, but he was very inventive, pursuing inventions like patenting rail-on rail-off container trains, or a harbour for supersized bulk carriers off Robben Island. I was left to develop the weekly freight media with Joy and the team. Like Anton after me, I was immersed in the activities of the organisation from an early age. Anton is now CEO of the company, which publishes mainly freight and travel media. His first business was in IT and that is a good skill to have in the age of digitisation. Eugene Goddard has taken over the editorship of Freight News from Joy, and Liesl Venter, who is a 15-year veteran of FTW, works out of Cape Town as the editor of Freight News Features.
