Total Onslaught. Apartheid's Dirty Tricks Exposed.

In Total Onslaught investigative reporter De Wet Potgieter reveals the truth behind some of the most enigmatic events in South Africa’s past.
Potgieter, De Wet
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Author: De Wet Potgieter
Publisher: Zebra Press
Cape Town, 2007
ISBN 9781770073289
Softcover, 15x23 cm, 344 pages, several bw and colour photographs

"Total Onslaught" (Afrikaans: Anschlag, Angriff) berichtet über die eskalierenden Geheimdiensttätigkeiten Südafrikas in den letzten Jahren vor der Unabhängikeit, unter anderem die Hintergründe der Ermordung von Olof Palme.


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For much of its time in power, the National Party government was shored up by the direct involvement of its security forces.

Ordinary citizens had no idea that their taxes were being used to fund unorthodox and even illegal operations, ranging from international propaganda campaigns to local death squads.

From the dreaded Security Branch, the sinister Civil Cooperation Bureau, the aptly named BOSS and the ubiquitous front companies set up to bypass an arms embargo and economic sanctions, South Africa was run by stealth.

It was the government’s Total Strategy against the enemy’s Total Onslaught.

Now, for the first time, investigative reporter De Wet Potgieter can reveal the truth behind some of the most enigmatic events in South Africa’s past, from what happened during PW Botha’s final cabinet meeting to the assassination of Olof Palme.

These, and many other news stories of the time, afford a rare
and fascinating glimpse into the behind-the-scenes machinations of South Africa’s security apparatus in the apartheid era.