POINT OF ORDER
TIM COHEN: Bongo beats pointless drum over book
Glynnis Breytenbach says no case can be brought against The President’s Keepers author Jacques Pauw with any real prospect of success
It was my pleasure to interview DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach at the weekend about her book, Rule of Law, at the LeesFees book festival in my adopted home town of Prince Albert. The exploding topic on social media, though, was a different book. That different book was Jacques Pauw’s The President’s Keepers, which was in the news because the State Security Agency had just declared it would seek an injunction to have it removed from the shelves. But as it happens, the two books have a sequential feel about them, or at least they have distinct overlaps. In any case, it was interesting to ask Breytenbach, herself an experienced prosecutor, about her views on the capacity of the state to prevent the book from being in the public eye. Her view is that no case can be brought against Pauw with any real prospect of success. According to newly appointed State Security Minister Bongani Bongo, there are "lots of inaccuracies" and "certain information in the book is classified"."Certain information ...
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