Jacques Pauw

Jacques Pauw is the author of the bestselling book The President’s Keepers. He is an award-winning journalist, television documentary producer and the author of the Into the Heart of Darkness, Rat Roads, Dances with Devils and Little Ice Cream Boy.

He was a founder member and assistant editor of the independent and anti-apartheid Afrikaans weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad and wrote for several newspapers before becoming a current affairs television producer where he covered, amongst others, the civil war in Burundi and Rwanda.

Author's books

In the Heart of the Whore

The Story of Apartheid’s Death Squads

In the Heart of the Whore introduces the reader to the secret underworld of the Apartheid death squads. It explains when and why they were created, who ran them, what methods they employed, who the victims and perpetrators were.

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Into the Heart of Darkness

Confessions of Apartheid’s Assassins

Jacques Pauw has been more closely involved with apartheid’s killers than any other journalist. For more than seven years, he has hunted them down and become a witness to their secret and forbidden world.