Dances with Devils

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A JOURNALIST’S SEARCH FOR TRUTH Most of the stories in this book are the untold anecdotes, epics and narratives that lie behind my years as a television journalist. This is not an autobiography in the style or grandeur of Max du Preez’s Pale Native or Aidan Hartley’s The Zanzibar Chest, but rather a collection of events and encounters with extraordinary people in places where ‘ordinary’ people generally don’t go. The journey stretches from the last, dark days of apartheid and its aberrations to the apocalyptic events in several African states around and since the dawn of the new millennium. Juxtaposed between these cataclysmic developments are what I call the whores, hoods and hooligans – gangsters and their molls, con men and their rackets, opiates and their slaves. There are also tales of inyangas (black witches) concocting muti from human flesh and innocent girls being trafficked into prostitution.