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!