Incorruptible was featured in City Press. Read it here: New light on anti-apartheid activists’ deaths An explosive book to be released this week shows the role of powerful foreign and local interests in the murders of activists and freedom fighters Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani.
Evelyn Groenink’s explosive revelations in her book “Incorruptible: the story of the murders of Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani” indicate that these political assassinations were motivated, rather than by racial ideology, by opaque military and financial dealings between former colonial powers and a South Africa in transition in the late eighties and early nineties. The book asks us to contextualise such …
It is often thought that Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani were assassinated by apartheid forces simply because they were freedom fighters. But ‘Incorruptible,’ a nail-bitingly thrilling reflection of Evelyn Groenink’s painstaking research over the past 30 years, shows the truth is different. All three tried to keep their organisations, the ANC and SWAPO, …
The following transnational pan-African investigations were coordinated and edited by Evelyn for the African Investigative Publishing Collective and ZAM in 2016 and 2017.
More than two decades after South Africa’s transition to democracy the country is in disarray. The ideals of a revolution – non-racialism, non-sexism, non-tribalism and a constitutional democracy – are being betrayed by an elitist faction under the leadership of president Jacob Zuma. New divisions are being sown to divert attention from greed, abuse of …
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How African oligarchs steal from their countries The Panama Papers revealed that numerous African politicians have stored wealth in off-shore accounts. But how did the money get there? A transnational team of reporters in seven African countries investigated looting by their rulers. WHO WE ARE: The team that did the investigation Click here to download the full …
Damn, I am missing out on the revolution. Where were all these teenage girls with their fists in the air, shouting and singing, when my daughters schooled at Pretoria High School for Girls (PHSG)? Even last year, all I ever saw on the school grounds were polite and quiet pupils in their green dresses and …
Dear Comrades who support President Zuma because of ‘white capital’, I agree with you. Well, not on the Zuma bit. That evil old mouse is friends with capitalists and gangsters of all colours and I fail to see how that helps anybody other than a few Russians, Italians and Indians living in mansions previously reserved …
Mistrust of ‘white capital’ feeds the South African president’s racial populism Originally published in ZAM Chronicle #21 “It’s a single minded onslaught,” says my friend Jakes with emphasis. “The whites in Cape Town. The Afrikaans millionaires. The (mainly white opposition party) DA. The media –they’re also still mostly white, you know that. And who do they want …
Nu Mandela weg is, is hij er juist weer wel. Dat was altijd al zo. Ook toen hij geheel en al levend, in de gevangenis zat, mocht de wereld hem niet zien, en zijn volk al helemaal niet. Het lied ‘Asimbonanga’ van Johny Clegg, gemaakt voor en over Mandela tijdens de periode van gevangenschap, betekent …