INSIDE THE BELLY OF THE BEAST, the real Bosasa story

318pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2020

Whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi, former COO of Bosasa, describes how he and late CEO Gavin Watson built Bosasa into the leading logistics provider largely to government and state-owned agencies and won corrupt tenders worth billions of rands. Watson died suspiciously in a car crash in August 2019, with Bosasa in liquidation and at the centre of state capture investigations by the Zondo Commission.

Agrizzi is critically ill in hospital. He had a heart attack in prison a week after the Specialised Commercial Crime Court denied him bail. He faces fraud and corruption charges related to payments allegedly making to former ANC MP Vincent Smith.