Jacques Pauw. INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS.

2017. Softcover, 346 pages. Very good condition

For years the rumours persisted: the apartheid state was responsible for the continual disappearance and assassination of anti-apartheid activists. Then, in November 1989, former security policeman Captain Dirk Coetzee made the announcement: I was the commander of the South African police death squad. I was in the heart of the wh.... Despite official denials and cover-ups, the rumours of apartheids 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 apartheids secret war. Jacques Pauw has been more closely involved with apartheids 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?