The author

Julian Rademeyer is an award-winning investigative journalist and Southern Africa editor of Africa Check.  He has written and worked for many of South Africa’s leading newspapers including City Press, Beeld,  the Sunday Times, Pretoria News and The Herald. He has been a stringer for Reuters and freelanced for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Associated Press. 

Until he resigned to write this book, he was chief reporter for Media24 Investigations. In a career spanning two decades, he has reported from some of the world’s most troubled countries including Somalia, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Niger, Togo, Belarus, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon.

In 2005 he won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year award for print news.  He was a recipient of the  2009 Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for hard news. He has twice been a finalist for the Taco Kuiper Award, South Africa’s leading investigative journalism prize.  His work has also been published  Troublemakers: The Best of South Africa’s Investigative Journalism.