Learn about Johan Booysen’s story
Those who have heard the talk say it is utterly brilliant and completely spellbinding.
FRIENDS of Kloof Library Forum will host General Johan Booysen (former head of the KZN Hawks) and Jessica Pitchford (who co-authored his newly published book, Blood on their Hands) at its next meeting at Kloof Junior Primary School on Tuesday, 1 November at 6pm.
Pan Macmillans, the publishers of the book wrote: “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 who 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.”
So, this talk will be about Johan Booysen’s story. Those who have heard the talk say it is utterly brilliant and completely spellbinding. Copies of the book will be on sale at a discounted price of R255 each.
Tickets for the talk is already on sale at the Kloof Library at R50 each or R35 for those who are up to date paid members of Friends.
