Death Flight

Apartheid's secret doctrine of disappearance

Michael Schmidt

ISBN:

9780624088608

Epub ISBN:

9780624088622

Publisher:

Tafelberg

Date Released:

August 2020

Price (incl. VAT):

R 335.00

Format:

Soft cover, 336pp


About this book:

In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was established, tasked with the murder of hundreds of ANC, PAC, and SWAPO members. Victims’ bodies were flung from aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the detailed analysis of flight logs and numerous interviews, Death Flight sheds shocking new light on one of apartheid’s darkest chapters.

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