Life / Books BOOKS Journalist connects the dots in trail of assassinations Groenink is a tenacious journalist. She has carefully uncovered new truths that have withstood a barrage of threats. BL PREMIUM

Bitter experience teaches seasoned journalists that some of their best stories, often the ones that threaten people in power, may never see the light of day. Even in a democracy guided by a Constitution that guarantees press freedom, many important stories are vanished from view by court interdicts, and threats of harm to reporters and economic damage to publishing houses. Even the most tenacious journalists can fail to land a big story when they crash into the brick wall of a cover-up. Evelyn Groenink is a tenacious journalist. For 30 years, she investigated the assassination of Dulcie September, who at the time of her death on March 29 1988 was the ANC’s chief representative in France. That lead Groenink down a bloodied path to two other assassinations — those of Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani. The common thread between the three liberation heroes was that they were incorruptible and threatened the longstanding, lucrative arms trade between France and SA. Groenink heard the news of...