Episode 105 - TALKING BOOKS: JEREMY VEAREY'S MEMOIR IS MUCH MORE THAN A POLICE MEMOIR

I LOVED LOVED LOOOOOVED reading Into Dark Water - A Police Memoir by Jeremy Vearey. It is so much more than a police memoir. It is a memoir about his life as a political activist, and how that life segues from there into the role of career cop after returning from Robben Island, and following a stint as a Nelson Mandela bodyguard. But Jeremy is an activist, teacher, poet, intellectual, and so this book does not simply chronicle policing experiences - that alone would have been fascinating - rather, the book locates his police work within the social and political milieu of Cape Town, the Western Cape and indeed, and necessarily so, South Africa as such.I apologise, dear listener, that once or twice the sound quality meanders, because darn Eskom, our useless electricity supplier, cut off the power supply while I was working. But it should not spoil your enjoyment of the episode, overall. At any rate, PLEASE buy and read the book also. Enjoy!