BLACK BEACH, 491 days in one of Africa's most brutal prisons

290pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2022

In 2013, South African businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg travelled to Equatorial Guinea. When the aircraft brokering deal with the president's brother-in-law, Gabriel Mba Angabie, turned sour he was arrested by the local Rapid Intervention Force, detained without trial and then imprisoned in the notorious Black Beach Prison from September 2013. In 2016, he sued Equatorial Guinea's Vice-president, Teodorin Obiang, and was awarded damages by the Western Cape High Court. He lives in the village of Hoekwil in the Western Cape.

Tracey Pharoah has worked in advertising, marketing and publishing. She lives in Wilderness, where she co-owns an art gallery.