About the Author

Max Du Preez is a South African author and the founding editor of Vrye Weekblad, the groundbreaking anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper that struck back against corrupt South African police. Preez worked for the South African Broadcasting Corporation before being dismissed for insubordination. In 2006 he was named the Yale Globalist Journalist of the Year and in 2008 he won the Nat Nakasa Award for his reporting.