An extended look at Malan’s first book since My Traitor’s Heart:
In a career spanning three decades, perhaps no other South African journalist has been equally as admired and reviled as Malan. Twenty years ago, after the publication of his memoir My Traitor’s Heart, the book every South African journalist at the time wished they had written, Malan was hailed for his courageous and brutally honest confrontation of the anxieties and uncertainties of white South Africa in the last days of apartheid and became a sought-after commentator on the state of the nation in international publications from Esquire to Rolling Stone and The Spectator.
But as far as the locals were concerned Malan quickly became a nay-sayer, an incompetent, a publicity whore, an amateur statistician and a mass murderer whose questioning of Aids statistics “strengthened those who would deny the acute nature of the Aids problem”.
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