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Working title:Elusive Spring

An award-winning journalist working for a British-owned newspaper, investigates a series of killings that appear to be politically-related; the more he does so, the more he and his associates are threatened, and he has to negotiate numerous attempts to undermine his credibility with the planting of fake news, large sums of money being transferred into his account, and the odd honey trap.

Mike Van Graan Mike Van Graan

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God, Spies and Lies: How journalists and politicians fought South Africa’s war of ideas, 1800-2015

In the light of the political impasse gripping the country, this study investigates the ideas that made democratic South Africa, through the largely unexplored interaction between its journalists and politicians.

John Matisonn John Matisonn
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