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Author/Creator:Maseko, Themba, author.
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Title:For my country : why I blew the whistle on Zuma and the Guptas / Themba Maseko.
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ISBN:9781776190539
177619053X
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Publication:Jeppestown, South Africa : Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2021.
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Physical Description:232 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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Summary:"In 2010, government spokesperson Themba Maseko was called to the Gupta family's Saxonwold compound and asked by Ajay Gupta to divert the government's entire advertising budget to the family's media company. When Maseko refused to do so, he was removed from his position and forced to leave the public service. The life of this once-proud civil servant would never be the same again. Maseko, whose activism was forged in the Soweto uprising of 1976, is a product of the struggle, and has always been unfailingly loyal to the principles of the ANC. In 2016, when the party called on members with evidence of wrongdoing by the Guptas to step forward, Maseko was the only one to do so. For this courageous act of whistleblowing, he was ostracised, slandered and even threatened. As a former senior state official, with a distinguished record of public service, Maseko also offers a rare insider's view of the presidencies of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma and of the inner workings of government. Compelling and revelatory, For My Country shows what it takes to stand up for one's principles and defy the most powerful man in the country." ---Publisher's description.
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 222-226) and index (pages 227-232).
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Subjects:Maseko, Themba.
Gupta family.
Zuma, Jacob.
Mbeki, Thabo.
Zuma, Jacob.
African National Congress--History--21st century.
African National Congress.
Whistle blowers--South Africa--Biography.
Political activists--South Africa.
Business and politics--South Africa.
Corruption--South Africa.
Business and politics.
Corruption.
Political activists.
Political participation.
Politics and government.
Whistle blowing.
South Africa--Politics and government--21st century.
South Africa.
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Genre/Form:Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16048911