THE ANC SPY BIBLE, surviving across enemy lines
247pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2020
Former state security boss Moe Shaik writes about his relationship with The Nightingale, a Special Branch policeman turned secret agent whose files were so accurate Oliver Tambo named them The Bible. He discusses The Bible Project, the intelligence operation he led in the 1980s, supplying information to the ANC in exile and in South Africa, and sheds light on the role of Jacob Zuma, his brother Schabir Shaik and others.