Title: Dances with Devils
Description: A JOURNALIST’S SEARCH FOR TRUTH
Most of the stories in this book are the untold anecdotes, epics and
narratives that lie behind my years as a television journalist. This is not an
autobiography in the style or grandeur of Max du Preez’s Pale Native or
Aidan Hartley’s The Zanzibar Chest, but rather a collection of events and
encounters with extraordinary people in places where ‘ordinary’ people
generally don’t go. The journey stretches from the last, dark days of apartheid
and its aberrations to the apocalyptic events in several African states around
and since the dawn of the new millennium. Juxtaposed between these
cataclysmic developments are what I call the whores, hoods and hooligans –
gangsters and their molls, con men and their rackets, opiates and their slaves.
There are also tales of inyangas (black witches) concocting muti from human
flesh and innocent girls being trafficked into prostitution.