For more than a decade, Jacques Pauw has traversed his native continent in pursuit of warlords and drug traffickers, child soldiers and charlatans, adventure and anarchy. What he found was a rich array of personalities and a panoply of stories, ranging from the profoundly tragic to the intensely personal.
Pauw's stories range from South Africa to Rwanda, from Sierra Leone and the Sudan to Mozambique. Readers are taken behind the scenes of sensational news reports with compassion, humour and occasional cynicism and emerge in the knowledge that, even if it's true that there is nothing new out of Africa, the writer has found fresh ways to present time-honoured tales of love, life, misery and mortality.
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A story that is compulsively readable
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 | Review
by: Andrew
Jacques Pauw is one of SA’s most widely known investigative journalists. His magic lies in his ability to investigate and uncover information, and then turn it into a story that is compulsively readable. “Dances with Devils” is a look back over Pauw’s experiences as a journalist from roughly 1986 to 2006 and provides key insight into some of the darkest crimes and most wicked criminals in SA’s history.
Starting with the death squads in SA – remember Vlakplaas, Dirk Coetzee and Eugene de Kock? The merciless butchering of enemies of the Apartheid government that was funded by the selling of illegal drugs, the running of a brothel, and other gangsterism? Well, Pauw is the guy who first exposed the death squads. And his telling of the story ran shivers up and down my spine…
This is only one part of a book that looks back at murderers, con artists, drug sellers – in fact, just about any crime you may not care to mention. All meticulously detailed, all reported in an exciting narrative that has the reader shaking alongside Pauw as he speaks to some of the most terrifying criminals in SA, past and present.
“Dances with Devils” is so comprehensive that it looks at crime across the border as well. Some of this is a result of SA’s booming crime export market; some is as a result of such horrific crimes in other countries that even the ripples have a large impact in SA.
This is a book that will make you shudder and make you grimace. And it will take hold of you until long after you have finished it. Read it. Experience it.
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