Journalist Greg Ardé exposes a deadly nexus of politics, crime and the taxi industry. The ANC’s cadre deployment has inextricably entwined the ruling party and the state. In KwaZulu-Natal, the party’s powerhouse province, IFP-ANC warfare has morphed into an internal ANC battle that has created a monster of competing patronage networks. While leaders avert their gaze, comrades are killing each other for jobs and tenders.
Corruption, failed policing and the izinkabi hitmen of the taxi industry loom large as the author investigates the battlefield that is KwaZulu-Natal, which threatens to spread across the country. Travel with Ardé across the dusty towns of the provincial hinterland into the dark heart of South Africa’s ‘culture of blood’.
‘Read this book. Get angry. Get active.’ Sam Sole
About the author
Greg Ardé is the former deputy editor of the Sunday Tribune and KwaZulu-Natal bureau chief of the Sunday Times. In his 30year career in journalism, he has also worked as political reporter for the Daily News, business editor of The Mercury and for the South African Press Association in the run-up to 1994 democratic election.
War Party: How The ANC's Political Killings Are Breaking South Africa is published by NB Publishers
EMAIL THIS ARTICLE SAVE THIS ARTICLE ARTICLE ENQUIRY FEEDBACK
To subscribe email subscriptions@creamermedia.co.za or click here
To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here
