Legal threats pile up against Jacques Pauw as Fraser family joins the fray
Author Jacques Pauw faces even more legal threats amid wide-scale outcry from those implicated in his book The President’s Keepers, as director-general of the State Security Agency (SSA) Arthur Fraser and his family indicated they were also seeking legal advice on it. Pauw’s book has resulted in anger from regular South Africans about the state of corruption and defiance against the threat by the SSA to have the books pulled and have parts of it retracted. Pushback and legal threats by the SSA, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and now the Fraser family, who are all implicated in the book, have all followed the release of the book. Fraser’s family said on Monday the book includes “a number of scurrilous and patently false allegations about the family, which has a distinguished record in SA’s struggle for democracy, equality and justice.” "In his enthusiasm to influence ruling party politics and the 2019 general election, Pauw has allowed himself to be manipulated by an aparth...
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