Alide Dasnois is a South African journalist and newspaper editor. Dasnois matriculated from Herschel Girls School and completed a Bachelor's degree in Economics at the University of Cape Town. She obtained a Masters degree at the Sorbonne (Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne) in Development Economics.[citation needed]

During the mid 1980s she worked as a translator in Paris. In 1988, she moved to Reunion Island to work for Témoignages. In 1992, she started working at The Argus in Cape Town where she edited the business section before becoming assistant editor for Personal Finance (Cape Town).[citation needed]

In 2001, she moved to Johannesburg and became the editor of Business Report,[1] before working as acting editor of the Pretoria News for a year in 2006. She worked as deputy editor of the Cape Times from December 2006 until April 2009, when she became first female editor of the Cape Times.[2][3] (Wikipedia)