South Africa: God, Spies and Lies - How Journalists, Spooks and Politicians Shaped South Africa

book review

While confirmation that the charismatic and influential former Sunday Times editor, Tertius Myburgh, was a voluntary spy for the apartheid government is one of the more sensational revelations in veteran journalist and editor John Matisonn's just-published book, the work is also a detailed and unflinching examination of the symbiotic relationship between business, journalism and politics. By MARIANNE THAMM.

(Disclosure: Marianne Thamm edited the manuscript of God, Spies and Lies)

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