Zebra
Garden in Cape Town

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Our strength lies in our strong base of South African authors, the stories they have to tell or the advice they have to give. We are proud to be the link between them and the growing number of South African readers. Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa is a South African best-seller, and is on the short-list for Jenny Crwys-Williams Book of the Year. In the excerpt the author writes about his love of rugby and the Springboks that inspire him. In 1965 we as a family were having a meal in the Gordonia Hotel in Upington. Sitting on his own, there was an unknown man at his table. The investigative journalist started his career in 1975 and has worked at numerous newspapers, including the Sunday Times and Rapport. Colonel Eugene de Kock, commander of the state-sanctioned death squads at Vlakplaas, had already been incarcerated and was awaiting trial, while policemen and members of the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), the notorious covert unit operating under the South African Defence Force (SADF), had begun to sing like canaries backstage in an effort to save their own skins. He knew that those two rifles were the key to a horrible, bloody truth that would cost him and many other people dearly should they end up in the wrong hands. The ANC president, Nelson Mandela, accused De Klerks government of being behind the faceless third force allegedly responsible for the violence on the trains and in the townships. The growing crisis was driving a wedge between the two high-profile political leaders. Their relationship would never fully recover after that. De Klerk did not have the faintest idea of his security forces hand in the b