VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH tomorrow at 19:00 on arts24_sa | Joining the Dots - An unauthorised biography of Pravin Gordhan - News24 JonathanBallPub
Pravin Gordhan during a media briefing to address load-shedding.
An unauthorised biography is usually one written without the cooperation of the subject, and it can become a hatchet job. Think Albert Goldman's biography of John Lennon, or Peter Ackroyd's biography of TS Eliot. Worried about her late husband's reputation, Eliot's widow wouldn't let Ackroyd quote from his works or letters.
It wasn't easy, Ancer writes, to get Gordhan to speak. They were told, repeatedly, in different variations, that"PG doesn't like talking about himself". But, in the end,"we managed to achieve where the Guptas had failed: we wore him down". Ultimately, they conducted several interviews with Gordhan, who"had facts and figures at his fingertips and recalled extraordinary details from events half a century ago". His stamina was such that, after one long session, Gordhan told Ancer:"You look more tired than I do." And Gordhan still had another meeting to attend.
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