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Guestspeaker- Jacques Pauw
Jacques Pauw
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Speaker, MC, Entertainment, Comedian
Location:
Riebeek Kasteel South Africa
Preferred Language:
Afrikaans, English
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Author,Entrepreneur,Journalist,Politics,South Africa,Writer
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In November 2022, Guest Speaker Jacques Pauw published Our Poisoned Land, his long-awaited sequel to The President’s Keepers, the biggest-selling non-fiction book in SA history and widely credited for playing a significant role in the downfall of former president Jacob Zuma.
 
Following its release, Our Poisoned Land has been South Africa’s best-selling book for weeks and has been hailed by critics like social commentator Eusebius McKaiser as “genuinely searing, factually detailed, fantastically analytical...” while former Constitutional Court judge Johann Kriegler said that a “masterful performance is but unforgettable”. 
 
While The President’s Keepers focused on top officials in law-enforcement that protected Zuma and kept him out of prison, Our Poisoned Land reflects on the first five years of Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency. Crime has sky-rocketed, most of the looters still walk free and the law-enforcement agencies are in shambles. What went wrong, and have we become a Mafia state? 
 
The book also deals with the debauchery of the man who has promised to be president one day: Julius Malema. He demanded that Our Poisoned Land be removed from the shelves – in much the same fashion that former spy boss Arthur Fraser attempted to ban The President’s Keepers.  
 
Jacques needs no introduction. He was named by Nelson Mandela as one of South Africa’s greatest journalists and has worked as a reporter, television documentary producer, commentator, author and columnist for more than 30 years.
He has twice been named as CNN’s African Journalist of the Year, has won the Daniel Pearl award in the United States for the world’s best cross-border investigative journalism, Italy’s Ilaria Alpi, South Africa’s Journalist of the Year Award and was the recipient of the Nat Nakasa Award for bravery and integrity in journalism. 
The President’s Keepers has won several literary awards, including the prestigious Association of American Publishers’ International Freedom to Publish Award and the Nielsen Booksellers Award.
 
He has been a public speaker since 2017 and has addressed, among other, Deutsche Bank, PSG Wealth, Investec, Old Mutual, ABSA, the South African-Italian Chamber of Trade and Industries, RGA Reinsurance, Smart Procurement Group, Strauss Daly Inc, Wilderness Safaris, The Jewish Board of Deputies, RMB/Stanley Morgan and several others. 
 
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In November 2022, Guest Speaker Jacques Pauw published Our Poisoned Land, his long-awaited sequel to The President’s Keepers, the biggest-selling non-fiction book in SA history and widely credited for playing a significant role in the downfall of former president Jacob Zuma.
 
Following its release, Our Poisoned Land has been South Africa’s best-selling book for weeks and has been hailed by critics like social commentator Eusebius McKaiser as &ldqu
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