The Unlikely Mr Rogue (and me) is the story of Ivan Pillay, the ‘Sars rogue unit’ and the damage wrought by rubbish ‘leadership’. Evelyn Groenink writes about the anger that inspired her book. Read it online here.
Evelyn was on The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener discussing The Unlikely Mr Rogue. Listen to it here.
Gutsy. The punches come straight from the shoulder, leaving a lot of blood on the floor.Mac Maharaj Pillay’s roller coaster journey from the trenches in exile to heading SARS to becoming Mr Rogue…captivating, unmissable and a prescribed read.Jacques Pauw Sympathetic, frank, with a keen eye and sharp pen, Comrade Groenink has no truck with privilege …
Synopsis The story of Ivan Pillay, who went from an enemy of the apartheid state to enemy of the State Capture brigade under Jacob Zuma, is told by his partner, Evelyn Groenink, whom he met in October 1990, in Lusaka, Zambia. Pillay, coordinator of Operation Vula, was then still a fugitive from the apartheid regime. …
In the midst of a pandemic, who wants to read about a life of the past?I regularly wonder if it’s still relevant, my story of the seventeen-year-old boy who desperately wanted to find freedom and the ANC; who walked over borders amid veld fires to go fight oppressors; and who, as an MK recruit, nagged …
15 May 2018. Trying to write about the first time I spent time with Ivan, on a visit to Lusaka at the end of 1990, I keep coming back to Operation Vula. Which is not very romantic, and therefore slightly annoying. I had just decided to put more romance into this thing, this book, but …
11 May 2018. Never mind the previous post. Doing his biography is still problematic. He doesn’t want this or that in it, why am I not interested in so- and -so, why don’t I do a bit more research into what Mozambique was like in 1974, because that is important too, and I must talk …
29 April 2018 Can one write a biography about one’s significant other? The journalistic answer would be no, since one is obviously too biased and personally involved. On the other hand many, including myself, would love to read what the spouse of someone who happens to be in the public spotlight would have to say …
Evelyn Groenink was interviewed on Argos (NPO radio) about Incorruptible. Listen here (in Dutch):
Evelyn Groenink spoke with RFI for the 30 year anniversary of Dulcie September’s assassination. Read it here (in French): Il y a 30 ans, Dulcie September était assassinée à Paris – RFI Il y a 30 ans jour pour jour, la militante noire sud-africaine Dulcie September était assassinée à Paris. Elle était la représentante en France …
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