KATIZA'S JOURNEY Beneath the Surface of South Africa's Shame

Hardback. Katiza Cebekhulu left his home in the troubled township of Mpumalanga in Zululand in 1988 to go to Johannesburg. He was escaping a life of dire poverty, brutality and petty crime. But in Johannesburg, far from finding salvation, he was plunged into a world far more brutal than he could ever have imagined, and his introduction to that world came from the woman he thought would be his saviour: Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Mandela. Winnie Mandela took Katiza under her wing, making him a member of the now notorious Mandela United Football Club, having him to live in her house in Soweto and sending him to school. But the price of her patronage was high and Katiza soon found himself caught up in the terrifying death of Stompie Moeketsie, who, according to Katiza, was beaten to a pulp on Mrs. Mandela's orders and whose death was to lead to her being tried for kidnap and assault. What Katiza says he saw that day in December 1988 is evidence that the alibi which enabled Winnie Mandela to walk free was a lie and what he says he saw in the months following Stompie's death suggests her involvement in the violent deaths of several young black township activists. With Notes and Index. 299pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in F. dw.