Dances with Devils: A Journalist's Search for Truth
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004Q9SRRE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 323 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Currently executive producer of the hard-hitting weekly television series Special Assignment, he has won numerous South African and international journalism awards, twice being named CNN’s African Journalist of the Year and also winning the Vodacom Journalist of the Year award. About the Author Jacques Pauw moved into the electronic media in 1994 after having cut his teeth on investigative journalism in print. Pauw has travelled the length and breadth of Africa to bring television viewers stories about conflict, corruption and human rights abuses. A founder member of Vrye Weekblad, he lifted the veil on ‘dirty tricks’ funded and authorized by the apartheid government. He has published two books on the subject: In the Heart of the Whore and Into the Heart of Darkness
A founder member of Vrye Weekblad, he lifted the veil on ‘dirty tricks’ funded and authorized by the apartheid government. . Currently executive producer of the hard-hitting weekly television series Special Assignment, he has won numerous South African and international journalism awards, twice being named CNN’s African Journalist of the Year and also
"Chilling + fascinating" according to A. Van Wyk. This is not a book for the faint hearted. Pauw does indeed "dance with devils". It cannot leave you untouched as it describes the human tragedy behind the atrocities committed in Rwanda and the apartheid regime in South Africa in grim detail. Excellent work from one of, if not the best, investigative journalist in South Africa. Highly recommended. Should be read by every budding journo.. Highly recommended! I got this book as a gift and found it a riveting and profound read. If you are interested in human behaviour and the nature of the human world, I would highly recommend this book.. Wow brilliant writing Katy Jacques Pauw knows how to craft a page turner. This book about the underbelly of African politics, criminals, reformers, do gooders, faith healers - the good & bad, the vivid rich mosaic of this continent. He writes with sharp insight and is honest about himself and the topic he reports on. The chapter titles are wonderful.
Readers are taken behind the scenes of sensational news reports with compassion, humour and occasional cynicism and emerge in the knowledge that, even if it’s true that there is nothing new out of Africa, the writer has found fresh ways to present time-honoured tales of love, life, misery and mortality.. Pauw’s stories range from South Africa to Rwanda, from Sierra Leone and the Sudan to Mozambique. For more than a decade, Jacques Pauw has traversed his native continent in pursuit of warlords and drug traffickers