Johann van Loggerenberg

Johann van Loggerenberg is the co-author of the bestseller Rogue (2016), Death and Taxes (2017) and Tobacco Wars (2019). After working as an undercover police agent, he joined SARS in 1998 and resigned as Group Executive: Tax and Customs Enforcement Investigations in 2015.

Since then he has been a registered tax practitioner and consultant and researcher to local and international law, auditing and forensic firms, academic institutions and anti-organised crime organisations. He is also regularly called upon by the media to comment on and contribute to content relating to organised commercial crimes.

Author's books

Cop Under Cover

Johann van Loggerenberg describes how, as a young policeman, he worked closely with the investigative team of the Goldstone Commission to uncover the ‘third force’ – apartheid security forces that supplied weapons to the Inkatha Freedom Party to destabilise the country.

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Cop Under Cover (Audiobook)

My Life in the Shadows with Drug Lords, Robbers and Smugglers

Johann van Loggerenberg describes how, as a young policeman, he worked closely with the investigative team of the Goldstone Commission to uncover the ‘third force’ – apartheid security forces that supplied weapons to the Inkatha Freedom Party to destabilise the country.

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Death and Taxes

How SARS made hitmen, drug dealers and tax dodgers pay their dues

Death and Taxes by tax sleuth Johann van Loggerenberg shows how SARS gained but, in recent years, increasingly lost the capacity to fight organised crime.

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Rogue

Rogue: The Inside Story of SARS’s Elite Crime-busting Unit is an exposé of national importance that identifies the dark forces at play in politics and the business world.

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