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    Into the Heart of Darkness: Confessions of Apartheid's Assassins

    By Jacques Pauw

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    Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The President’s Keepers, he spent years tracking down apartheid death squads. Into the Heart of Darkness, first released in 1997, was the result of this work.

    Despite official denials and cover-ups, the rumours of apartheid’s death squads have now been proved to be all too real. Hundreds of anti-apartheid activists were killed and thousands tortured by a group of bizarre assassins, the foot soldiers of apartheid’s secret war.

    Jacques Pauw has been more closely involved with apartheid’s killers than any other journalist. For more than seven years, he has hunted them down and become a witness to their secret and forbidden world.

    Into the Heart of Darkness will take you on a journey into the minds and lives of the men who went out to kill and kill again. What caused these souls to become so dark and guided them to so much evil?

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    PublisherJonathan Ball
    Release dateDec 14, 2017
    ISBN9781868428939
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    Into the Heart of Darkness: Confessions of Apartheid's Assassins
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    Jacques Pauw

    Journalist and author Jacques Pauw was a founder member of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper 'Vrye Weekblad' in the late 1980s, where he exposed the Vlakplaas police death squads. He worked for some of the country’s most esteemed publications before becoming a documentary filmmaker, producing documentaries on wars and conflicts in Rwanda, Burundi, Algeria, Liberia, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, among other countries. When he left journalism in 2014, he was the head of investigations at Media24 newspapers. He has won the CNN African Journalist of the Year Award twice, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting in the US, Italy’s Ilaria Alpi and the Nat Nakasa award for bravery and integrity in journalism. He is the author of five books: four nonfiction and one fiction. They are 'In the Heart of Whore', 'Into the Heart of Darkness', 'Dances with Devils', 'Rat Roads' and 'Little Ice Cream Boy'. Three of his books have been shortlisted for major literary awards.

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