Gruesome: The crimes and criminals that shook South Africa
Oct 2015 · Penguin Random House South Africa
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In this book, investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter follows the trail of a number of criminals in South Africa’s history. These violent crimes, perpetrated from the late 1980s into the new millennium, vary from fanatical far-rightists who killed their innocent countrymen, to assassins who executed high-profile, state-sanctioned murders. He takes the reader behind the scenes of some of the most controversial events in our country and, with his fearless style of writing, pulls you right into the belly of the beast.
In Gruesome, he shares information that has never before been made public. What really happened on the night of 17 June 1992 in Boipatong? What motivated the horrific attack on Alison Botha? What caused the ostensibly conformist policeman André Stander to become an unscrupulous bank robber? Who was the first person to see the connection between Gert van Rooyen’s victims and a probable human-trafficking network?
Potgieter relates how, as a journalist, he went about reporting on each of these interesting, gruesome cases. This book takes you back to the bloody newspaper headlines of yesterday.
In Gruesome, he shares information that has never before been made public. What really happened on the night of 17 June 1992 in Boipatong? What motivated the horrific attack on Alison Botha? What caused the ostensibly conformist policeman André Stander to become an unscrupulous bank robber? Who was the first person to see the connection between Gert van Rooyen’s victims and a probable human-trafficking network?
Potgieter relates how, as a journalist, he went about reporting on each of these interesting, gruesome cases. This book takes you back to the bloody newspaper headlines of yesterday.
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About the author
De Wet Potgieter het sy joernalistieke loopbaan in 1974 by Oggendblad in Pretoria begin en het ʼn baie produktiewe en opwindende 38 jaar in die media beleef. Maar dit is nog geensins op ʼn einde nie.
Hy het onder meer ook by Beeld in die Pretoria-kantoor, Die Burger in Kaapstad en is later tot nuusredakteur van Die Vaderland in Johannesburg bevorder waarna hy vanaf 1986 tot 1993 tydens die interresantste en stormagtigste tye in die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika as ondersoekende joernalis en militêre korrespondent gewerk het.
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