Hennie van Vuuren's Apartheid Guns and Money - based on meticulous research - reveals the extent of the clandestine global and local structures including some white businesses that supported and defended apartheid.
Unsurprisingly, Van Vuuren's book is not a runaway success as it does not fit in with the view that corruption only emerged post-1994. This book serves as a discomfiting reminder to those beneficiaries of apartheid that they were willing participants in the subjugation of the masses.
Terrance Jeevanantham
Killarney
Uncomfortable reading for some
Two recently published books have exposed the covert corrupt networks that have blighted our country - both pre- and post-apartheid.
Jacques Pauw's exposè of the rapacious Comrade Cosa Nostra and his coterie of repugnant acolytes and puppet masters has resulted in a frenzy of sales of his book The President's Keepers.
Hennie van Vuuren's Apartheid Guns and Money - based on meticulous research - reveals the extent of the clandestine global and local structures including some white businesses that supported and defended apartheid.
Unsurprisingly, Van Vuuren's book is not a runaway success as it does not fit in with the view that corruption only emerged post-1994. This book serves as a discomfiting reminder to those beneficiaries of apartheid that they were willing participants in the subjugation of the masses.
Terrance Jeevanantham
Killarney