246pp., illus., map, paperback, Johannesburg, 2024
In 1986, seven young men were shot and killed by police in Guguletu, Cape Town. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings Eugene de Kock's Vlakplaas unit were exposed for having planned and executed the killings.
Dr Beverley Roos-Muller is a journalist, broadcaster and former academic lecturing in humanities at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Bullet in the Heart: Four brothers ride to war, 1899-1902 and co-author with her late husband Ampie Muller of Vuur in sy vingers, about poet NP Van Wyk Louw.