Posted on 8-3-2002

Unfinished Business
Review of book by Terry Bell, reviewer Tom Newnham

Terry Bell is a CapeTown -based free-lance writer, columnist and editor who
was banned and in exile from South Africa for 27 years. A trade-unionist,
socialist and former political detainee, he worked closely with the New
Zealand anti-apartheid movement from 1971-78 and was the keynote speaker at
the inaugural conference of the New Zealand Anti - Apartheid Committee. He
has co-authored this book with Dumisa Ntsebeza one of South Africa's
best-known human rights lawyers and the former head of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission investigations unit.

Of the book John Pilger has written "This is a brilliant, important book
that should be read by everybody interested in the truth behind the `truth
and reconciliation' hype of the new South Africa. In the finest traditions
of fearless, independent journalism, Terry Bell reveals the cover-ups and
charades that allowed the shock troops of apartheid to get away with a
crime against humanity."

Unfinished Business is published by Understanding Our Past, PO Box 373
Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. A non-profit organisation dedicated to the
collection, collation and dissemination of facts and analysis about the
apartheid past, within a national and global context. It is founded on the
premise that without a clear and critical understanding of the past there
can be no real hope for a more equitable and democratic future.

Unfinished Business is in paperback, 314pp.

Terry Bell has sent a limited advance consignment to New Zealand and copies
are now available at $36 (including postage) from Tom Newnham, 514 Dominion
Rd. Auckland 3. Email tom@pl.net