Troublemakers: The Best of South Africa's Investigative Journalism, edited by Anton Harber and Margaret Renn (used)

This is the book that will keep Schabir Shaik up at night. And Carl Niehaus. And Barry Tannenbaum. And all South Africa's other crooks, scoundrels and scumbags. The powerful may lament it, but those excited by a new and lively democracy will love it: South Africa is enjoying an unexpected revival of hard-hitting investigative journalism. This has included exposés of:

• South Africa's biggest-ever fraud (and we have had some big ones)

• The prosecuting chief who plagiarised to get the president off the hook

• The shifty politician who used foreign aid money to help a community (and forgot to tell the community about it)

• Shoot-to-kill policemen

• The anti-apartheid hero and ruling-party spin doctor who turned out to be a fraud and a liar

• The horror of Zimbabwe's prisons (with film of dying prisoners)

This collection of finalists in South Africa’s biggest journalism prize, the Taco Kuiper Award for 2009, highlights the controversial role played by the country’s feisty reporters.

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