As a follow up to the bestselling Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed (2010), the new book from Mandy Wiener, Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored, examines how organised crime, gangsters and powerful political figures have been able to capture the law enforcement authorities and agencies.

These various organisations have been eviscerated, hollowed out and left ineffective. They have been infiltrated and compromised and, as a result, prominent underworld figures have been able to flourish in South Africa, setting up elaborate networks of crime with the assistance of many cops.

The criminal justice system has been left exposed and it is crucial that the South African public knows about the capture that has occurred on different levels.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mandy Wiener is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. She reports for Eyewitness News in Johannesburg and covered Vusi Pikoli’s tenure in office, his suspension in 2007 and the testimony of the Ginwala Inquiry. Wiener’s first book Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed has sold over 80 000 copies.

Ministry of Crime: An Underworld Explored is published by Pan MacMillan South Africa