Nigel Louw

6 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Mike Loewe |Nigel Louw

Respected media veteran at forefront of SA’s digital transition Premium By MIKE LOEWE - 02 June 2025 Andrew Trench had an all-South African educational start to journalism — he left his journalism diploma studies at Durban Technical due to financial difficulties — and went on to have a soaring 35-year career, unlikely to be matched for its creativity, breadth and depth...

6 days ago | dailydispatch.co.za | Mike Loewe |Nigel Louw

Andrew Trench at the Daily Dispatch in 2008. SA media innovation and thought leader and former Daily Dispatch editor Andrew Trench, 54, has died, finally struck down by a vicious throat cancer. Loved for his warm, thoughtful nature and precise decision-making, the journalist passed away in Cape Town at 7pm on Friday with his wife and best friend, Gill Moodie, and their daughter Gemma, by his side.