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Plot thickens: Police and forensic investigators at the crime scene where Mark Minnie was found dead on Monday. (Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Lulama Zenzile)
MARK MINNIE

Police breathe new life into ‘cold case of over 30 years’

Police are investigating the allegations of a paedophile ring contained in the book ‘The Lost Boys of Bird Island’

  • Mxolisi Mngadi
3 min read
Lost Boys alleges that apartheid-era ministers Magnus Malan and John Wiley, among others, were paedophiles who trafficked children — mostly boys of colour. (Leon Botha/Beeld)
ADOLF HITLER

Self-loathing and self-repression lead to the suppression of the “other”

New guidelines for psychological work with queer people will advance everyone’s mental health

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
Plot thickens: Police and forensic investigators at the crime scene where Mark Minnie was found dead on Monday. (Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Lulama Zenzile)
MAGNUS MALAN

Minnie’s death raises questions

The author was probing new leads after linking apartheid-era ministers to a paedophile ring

  • Shaun De Waal
5 min read
Mark Minnie, a retired cop, was found dead this week. The murky circumstances of a possible suicide remain unclear. (John McCann/M&G)
CHRIS STEYN

‘The Lost Boys’ speaks to us all

In many ways the book exposes the psychosocial trauma that has been inherent since the founding of our country

  • Eusebius McKaiser
8 min read