Death, Detention and Disappearance: A lawyer’s battle to hold power to account in 1980s Namibia

In Namibia, the 1980s were a decade of human rights abuses by South African forces. Justice David Smuts’ gripping memoir details several dramatic cases where it was proven that torture was used to extract ‘confessions’ and that Koevoet killed citizens. He also takes a look at the assassination of his close friend, SWAPO activist Anton Lubowski.