Author Faces Criminal Charges For Exposé Of South Africa’s President

Jacques Pauw’s The President’s Keepers, an account of corruption, coercion and violence at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s administration, has become the fastest-selling book in South Africa since Nielsen began tracking sales there – thanks in no small part to the government’s Streisand-Effect attempts to suppress the book. Now the country’s State Security Agency has reportedly filed criminal complaints against Pauw for “unlawful publication of classified information.”