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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090607070430399C213362
Wonder what he is scared of?
Seems all the ANC guys are or were involved in some illegal activity.
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.
Titled Running with Horses: Reflections Of An Accidental Politician, the book is a memoir of Boesak's 30 years of church and political activism.
In the book, Boesak claims both Manuel, now head of the National Planning Commission, and Willie Hofmeyr, Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit, were among those who received funds from Boesak.
Both have denied this, Hofmeyr saying he had never received "a single cent" from Boesak.
Manuel and Boesak were comrades in the turbulent 1980s when they were both high-profile Cape-based leaders of the United Democratic Front.
Boesak claims in the book that assistance ranged from emergency aid to funding campaigns against the state of emergency in the mid-1980s, which saw thousands of people scooped up in police raids and detained - Manuel among them. Those helped included trade unions and community organisations, families and individuals, including Manuel's former wife, who "had been left alone with their first-born son".
The arrival of the lawyer's letter last week forced the last-minute postponement of a launch dinner on Friday at an upmarket restaurant in Somerset West.
Boesak's office confirmed the receipt of the lawyer's letter and said the book's launch had been postponed indefinitely.
Jennifer Crocker, spokesperson for the book fair, said despite the 11th-hour cancellation, the show would go on.
"We're sorry he won't be there. But it has caused no disruption to our programme."
Wonder what he is scared of?
Seems all the ANC guys are or were involved in some illegal activity.
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.
Titled Running with Horses: Reflections Of An Accidental Politician, the book is a memoir of Boesak's 30 years of church and political activism.
In the book, Boesak claims both Manuel, now head of the National Planning Commission, and Willie Hofmeyr, Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit, were among those who received funds from Boesak.
Both have denied this, Hofmeyr saying he had never received "a single cent" from Boesak.
Manuel and Boesak were comrades in the turbulent 1980s when they were both high-profile Cape-based leaders of the United Democratic Front.
Boesak claims in the book that assistance ranged from emergency aid to funding campaigns against the state of emergency in the mid-1980s, which saw thousands of people scooped up in police raids and detained - Manuel among them. Those helped included trade unions and community organisations, families and individuals, including Manuel's former wife, who "had been left alone with their first-born son".
The arrival of the lawyer's letter last week forced the last-minute postponement of a launch dinner on Friday at an upmarket restaurant in Somerset West.
Boesak's office confirmed the receipt of the lawyer's letter and said the book's launch had been postponed indefinitely.
Jennifer Crocker, spokesperson for the book fair, said despite the 11th-hour cancellation, the show would go on.
"We're sorry he won't be there. But it has caused no disruption to our programme."
