Blood on their hands
Subtitle: General Johan Booysen reveals his truth
By: Jessica Pitchford
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South Africa
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781770104778
Subjects: Biography; Police; Corruption investigation; Police internal investigation
Other titles: General Johan Booysen reveals his truth
Description: 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 of the criminal justice system. But capitulating is not in his DNA... -- page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 206).
Table of contents: title: Cast of characters; title: 21 March 1960; title: Billy the Kid; title: Cops and robbers; title: Shobashobane; title: Highway heists; title: Cato Manor; title: The assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Chonco; title: Cele, Mdluli and the ground coverage report; title: Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Ngobeni and the connected businessman; title: '(2)' in the boot; title: The fifth column; title: The plot thickens; title: The racketeers; title: Arrested; title: The witnesses who weren't; title: The evidence that wasn't; title: Booysen vs Jiba; title: Rollmops and corruption busters; title: Suspended again; title: Round seven; title: Blood on their hands; title: Postscript; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgements.