Locked up for poaching abalone, Shuhood Abader began writing his life story. For over fifteen years, he had been a small cog in a criminal industry stretching from the Cape underworld to China’s luxury seafood market. As abalone – perlemoen, perly – vanishes from the South African coast, Shuhood’s first-person account takes us right into the heart of the crisis.

Kimon de Greef’s postgraduate research on poaching led him into journalism, and today he is the pre-eminent local expert on the illicit abalone trade. He contextualises Abader’s raw, immediate tale by showing how the system works: from desperate fishing communities via gang strongholds on the Cape Flats, tik, guns and police complicity to the harbours of Morocco and Hong Kong.

Journey with the authors through death-defying dives, blackmail, robbery, shark encounters, near-drownings, and chases by police and rivals.

Poacher tells the story of a deadly black market; but it is also the story of one man, deeply conflicted, committed to his faith and searching for a better way.

Event Details

• Date: Tuesday, 09 October 2018
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland Street, Cape Town | Map
• Guest Speaker: Lester Kiewit
• RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com
   

  Book Details

  • Poacher by Kimon de Greef, Shuhood Abader
    EAN: 9780795708671
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