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Jonathan Ball Publishers invite you to an evening with Crispian Olver, author of How to Steal A City, and Antony Altbeker‏ at La Tête Restaurant in Cape Town.

Olver qualified as a medical doctor in South Africa before joining government in 1994. In 2015 he headed up a regional task team set up by Pravin Gordhan with the aim of rooting out corruption in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro.

How to Steal a City is written as a gripping real-life thriller, taking the reader deeper and deeper into the rotten heart of the city. As a former senior government official and local government ‘fixer’, Olver was no stranger to dealing with dodgy politicians and broken organisations.

Yet what he found was graft that went far beyond the dodgy contracts, blatant conflicts of interest and garden-variety kickbacks he had seen before …

Click on the link above for more about the book!

‘There will be lots of books about the ANC this year. This is the best one.’ – Ferial Haffajee

Categories Non-fiction South Africa

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