An alternative venue - but with restricted capacity for only 150 tickets - has been hurriedly arranged for Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s Gangster State Cape Town book launch on Thursday night after both Exclusive Books and the V&A Waterfront pulled the plug on the event taking place at the Waterfront venue.
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The launch of the controversial book was scheduled to take place on Thursday evening at the V&A Waterfront Exclusive Books. However, Exclusive Books and the V&A Waterfront postponed the launch, citing security concerns. Both planned to reschedule the event. However, after an overnight meeting to discuss the event, the V&A Waterfront asked Exclusive Books to “consider postponing the event due to safety concerns around the venue”, according to Donald Kau, V&A Waterfront’s head of communications.SAPS [South African Police Service] expressed the view that they didn’t think it would be a good idea to go ahead with the event,” Kau continued.
There are also no events scheduled for this evening by the ANC Youth League. “We totally distance ourselves from any burning of books and take strong offence at the burning of books,” ANCYL chairperson Khalid Sayed toldPenguin Random House South Africa, who planned the event with Exclusive Books, was unable to provide comment on changes to the planned book launch.
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