Trevor Manuel Blocks Allan Boesak Book Launch

by CTBF on Jun 8th, 2009

The launch of Allan Boesak’s autobiography has been “postponed indefinitely” after former finance minister Trevor Manuel objected to claims that he and his family received “struggle accounting” money.

Manuel sent Boesak a lawyer’s letter over claims made in the book, which was due to be launched in Somerset West on Friday.

Manuel’s spokesperson Thoraya Pandy said Manuel had been advised on Friday that the publisher, Joho, had put the printing of the book on hold.

Boesak was also due to speak at the Cape Town Book Fair on Saturday but has now been dropped from the programme.

In the book, Boesak, who served a year in jail for theft and fraud of donor funds during the apartheid era, alleges the ANC “knows where the money went”. Boesak later received a presidential pardon.