255pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2020
Durban journalist Greg Ardé on corruption in KwaZulu-Natal, where competing patronage networks within the ANC, failed policing and the izinkabi hitmen of the taxi industry have led to people murdering each other for jobs and tenders.
"Beautifully written and impeccably researched. This book is so good, so important and so relevant that it left me speechless." Jacques Pauw, author of The President's Keepers: those keeping Zuma in power and out of prison
"Read this book. Get angry. Get active." Same Sole, researcher at the Mail & Guardian