Blood on Their Hands

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Blood on Their Hands

General Johan Booysen Reveals His Truth (Updated edition with postscript)

Memoirs True crime Street crime Organized crime Violent crimes Political parties and party platforms Political control and freedoms

Author: Jessica Pitchford

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Language: English

Published by: Pan Macmillan South Africa

Published on: 14th November 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781770108424


A courageous police chief takes on a sinister cabal in this gripping true story of crime and corruption in South Africa.

When Johan Booysen hears that the new Provincial Police Chief takes backhanders from a Durban businessman, he decides to give her the benefit of the doubt. But the evidence becomes impossible to ignore and he soon gets dragged down the corridors of power and politics into a web of intrigue, deceit and betrayal that, at times, he has trouble making sense of. Only when he is arrested, handcuffed and tossed into a cell does Booysen realise just how ruthless those opposed to him are – an opposition he comes to call the ''cabal'' – and whom he believes have more blood on their hands than the so-called Cato Manor Death Squad with which he is closely associated.

Blood on Their Hands

Traces Johan Booysen''s life and career – from patrolling the streets of Amanzimtoti in the 1970s to his rise in 2010 to major general and head of KZN''s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation unit, the Hawks. But his tenure is short-lived. When Booysen decides to take on those so determined to be rid of him, each legal battle he wins is met by hostility and further efforts to shut him out of the criminal justice system. But capitulating is not in his DNA…

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