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November 2017 Zuma Fights for His Political When Zuma Goes Life Following the 2017 Gupta R The President’s Keepers HUTTEN-BUCHDIENST J. Pauw Posbus 7234, Pretoria, 0001 Investigative journalist Vuurklipstr.541 Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Die Wilgers Jacob Zuma's compromised T & F: 012 807 0434 government: a cancerous ca- 072 229 2148 bal that eliminates the presi- dent's enemies and purges www.hutten.co.za [email protected] the law-enforcement agencies of good men and women. As November 2017 Zuma fights for his political When Zuma goes life following the 2017 Gupta R. Mathekga emails leak, this cabal - the The author has become one of South president's keepers - ensures Africa’s most respected political analysts that after years of ruinous because he is obsessed with the future. rule, he remains in power and out of prison. Journey with In this valuable book, Mathekga begins Pauw as he explores the shadow mafia state. It's a trail of lies to fill the void at the heart of our politi- and spies, cronies, cash and kingmakers as Pauw prises open cal discourse: how do we fix the web of deceit that surrounds the fourth president of the the damage of the Zuma years? democratic era. 352 p., SC R 280 available end of November ‘The questions are tough and the an- swers are not easy to find. Mathekga takes a hard look at our past, present and future, and, in his Enemy of the People usual, unflinching style, takes our hand and begins to show us A. Basson the path out of our current quagmire.’ – Justice Malala, Enemy of the People is the first defini- political analyst tive account of Zuma’s catastrophic When Jacob Zuma retires to Nkandla, what will be left be- misrule, offering eyewitness descrip- hind? South Africa has been in the grip of the ‘Zunami’ since tions and cogent analysis of how South May 2009: Scandal, corruption and allegations of state cap- Africa was brought to its knees – and ture have become synonymous with the Zuma era, leaving the how a people fought back. When Jacob country and its people disheartened. But Jacob Zuma’s time is Zuma took over the leadership of the running out. Whether he leaves the presidency after the AN- ANC one muggy Polokwane evening in C’s national conference in 2017, stays on until 2019, or is December 2007, he inherited a country forced to retire much sooner, the question is: what impact will where GDP was growing by more than his departure have on South Africa, its people and on the rul- 6% per annum, a party enjoying the support of two-thirds of ing party? Can we fix the damage, and how? the electorate, and a unified tripartite alliance. Today, South Ralph Mathekga answers these questions and more as he puts Africa is caught in the grip of a patronage network, the econo- Zuma’s leadership, and what will come after, in the spotlight. my is floundering and the ANC is staring down the barrel of a 224 p., SC, R 260 defeat at the 2019 general elections. How did we get here? Zuma first brought to heel his party, Africa’s oldest and most Zuma exposed revered liberation movement, subduing and isolating dissi- A. Basson dents associated with his predecessor Thabo Mbeki. Then saw This is the book President Jacob Zuma does not want you to the emergence of the tenderpreneur and those attempting to read. From Shaik to ‘The Spear’, award-winning investigative capture the state, as well as a network of family, friends and journalist Adriaan Basson reveals the truth business associates that has become so deeply embedded behind Jacob Zuma’s presidency of the that it has, in effect, replaced many parts of government. Zu- ANC and South Africa. From one bad ma opened up the state to industrial-scale levels of corrup- decision to another, this explosive, roller- tion, causing irreparable damage to state enterprises, institu- coaster account traces the unravelling of a tions of democracy, and the ANC itself. But it hasn’t all gone likeable but deeply flawed leader who Zuma’s way. Former allies have peeled away. A new era of came to power as victim, not visionary. activism has arisen and outspoken civil servants have stepped Basson forensically unpacks the charges forward to join a cross-section of civil society and a robust against Zuma and reveals a president media. As a divided ANC square off for the elective conference whose first priority is to serve and protect in December, where there is everything to gain or to lose, his own, rather than the 50 million people he was elected to award-winning journalists Adriaan Basson and Pieter du Toit lead. To be published on the eve of the ANC elective conference offer a brilliant and up-to-date account of the Zuma era. in Mangaung, this is essential reading for any South African who 338 p., SC, R 260 available end of November cares about the country they live in. 322 p, SC, R 210 The Story of a SARS’s Rogue Unit How to steal a City A. Lackay/ J. van Loggerenberg C. Olver The story of a ‘rogue unit’ operating The African National Congress is not so within the South African Revenue Service much a political party as a parasite – and (SARS) became entrenched in the public a parasite always kills its host. mind following a succession of sensation- That is what I glean from Crispian al reports published by the Sunday Times Olver’s new book How to Steal a City – in 2014. The unit, the reports claimed, The battle for Nelson Mandela Bay. An had carried out a series of illegal spook Inside Account. operations: they had spied on President Herman Mashaba will read this book Jacob Zuma, run a brothel, illegally with particular interest because he is bought spyware and entered into unlawful tax settlements. experiencing in Johannesburg what Chippy Olver experienced in In a plot of Machiavellian proportions, head of the elite Port Elizabeth just prior to the 2016 Local Government Elec- crime-busting unit Johann van Loggerenberg and many of tion. SARS’s top management were forced to resign. Van Log- 288 p., SC , R 275 gerenberg’s select team of investigators, with their impec- cable track record of busting high-level financial fraudsters and nailing tax criminals, lost not only their careers but also South Africans Constitution at Twenty-One their reputations. Now, in this extraordinary account, they J. Meiring finally get to put the record straight and the rumours to … in the new South Africa there is nobody, not rest: there was no ‘rogue unit’. The public had been de- even the president, who is above the law; that ceived, seemingly by powers conspiring to capture SARS for the rule of law generally, and in particular the their own ends. Shooting down the allegations he has faced independence of the judiciary, should be re- one by one, Van Loggerenberg tells the story of what really spected . '- Nelson Mandela happened inside SARS, revealing details of some of the In late 1996, South Africa’s Constitution acquired unit’s actual investigations. 288 p., SC, R 270 the force of law. Its Bill of Rights enshrined a range of fundamental As by Fire rights to which all South Africans are entitled. In a marked breach with J. Jansen the past, citizens’ rights would no longer depend upon the pigment of What are the real roots of the student their skin or other idiosyncratic features. Today, 21 years since its in- protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actual- ception, the Constitution has acquired an almost mythical status, both ly about fees? Why did so many pro- tests turn violent? Where is the gov- at home and abroad. Yet, crucially, its primary impact has been on the ernment while the buildings burn, and nuts and bolts of people’s lives. It means that the death penalty is no do the students know how to end the longer a sentencing option, and gays and lesbians can get married and protests? Former Free State University adopt. It affects directly the types of contracts and commercial arrange- Vice-Chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves ments the courts will countenance and on people’s rights to land. As into the unprecedented disruption of universities that caught South Africa by surprise. In frank interviews with such, it impacts on each and every South African’s daily life and shapes eleven of the VCs most affected, he examines the forces the country and society we live in. at work, why the protests escalate into chaos, and what 224 p., SC, R 220 is driving – and exasperating – our youth. This urgent and necessary book gives us an insider view of the crisis, tells us why the conflict will not go away and what it means for the future of our universities. 285 p., SB, R 280 A Simple Man R. Kasrils Ronnie Kasrils’s insights into Jacob Zuma in A Simple Man, both shocking and revelatory, are vividly illuminated through this story, from their shared history in the underground to Kasrils’s time as minister of intelligence and his views on South Africa now. Our understanding of Zuma the struggle hero, now perceived as having sold his soul to the devil, becomes clearer through this narrative. This fast-paced, thriller-style memoir outlines the tumultuous years that saw Mbeki’s overthrow and replacement by Zuma, Nkandlagate, the growing militarisation of the police and the Marikana Massacre, the outrageous appointment of flunkies to high office, the ‘state capture’ report and his relationship with the Guptas.
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