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Michael Schmidt

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http://drinkingwithghosts.blogspot.com

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Michael Schmidt is a bestselling author, African human rights rapporteur, and investigative journalist with over 30 years in the field and a reputation for producing unique and challenging copy, having worked on some of South Africa's leading print titles including Sunday Times, Financial Mail, and Africa In Fact. He was a 2009 Fellow of the Academic Leaders Programme at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, a 2011 Fellow of the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ), Germany, as well as a 2011 Clive Menell Media Fellow at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at Duke University (USA). He is: * former Executive Director, Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) * Administrative Secretary, Professional Journalists' Assoc ...more

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Michael Schmidt I've been very fortunate not to have suffered meeting this tormentor of writers everywhere - but probably only because I don't write fiction; with non…moreI've been very fortunate not to have suffered meeting this tormentor of writers everywhere - but probably only because I don't write fiction; with non-fiction the facts are ever before one, demanding explanation, so blocks don't seem to arise.(less)

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Michael Schmidt At the end of January 2015, I submitted to my BestRed editors the sister volume to Drinking with Ghosts (which roughly covers the period 1961-1994, bu…moreAt the end of January 2015, I submitted to my BestRed editors the sister volume to Drinking with Ghosts (which roughly covers the period 1961-1994, but with much material bleeding over into 2014 because of the currency of the impact of the Dirty War). Under the Rusted Rainbow: Perdition and Promise in the New South Africa (BestRed, Cape Town, due September 2015) covers the period 1994-2015, and like the previous volume is a collection of back-stories on how I covered certain themes, but this one is about conditions of exclusion in under democracy, from poor whites to Bushmen, fascists to illegal coal miners, witches to land claimants, who collectively make up the majority of our people.(less)

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Average rating: 3.78 · 310 ratings · 41 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism by Michael Schmidt (Goodreads Author), Lucien Van Der Walt (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism 3.40 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drinking with Ghosts: Revisiting Apartheid's Dirty War 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Was SA the conduit for July 2005 London bombings?

The Times' story today on alleged al Qaeda-linked terrorists perhaps eyeing South Africa as a safe operating base reminds me of the DWG tale of how Africa's biggest arms dealer, Viktor Bout, may have organised the laundering of ₤1-million to transship 10 Pakistani and Afghan men, given them false identities as SA businessmen and inserted them into the UK just ahead of the 7 July 2005 London Bombin Read more of this blog post »

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