Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Local Non-Fiction, Uncategorized, Adult
ISBN: 9780143527824
Published: October 2012
Imprint: Penguin Books (South Africa)
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Format: e-Book
RRP 150.00

Burglar in the Bin Bag

Arthur Goldstuck

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Arthur Goldstuck - South Africa's urban legends guru - returns with a definitive guide to the hoaxes and rumours that have terrified and confused South Africans over the last twenty years. Why did an estimated 10 000 South Africans go on 'holiday' to Zimbabwe in April 1994? Who, exactly, decided that needles covered in AIDS-infected blood were being left on cinema seats in Cape Town in 1999? How did it come to be reported in several reputable newspapers that the South African government was considering cancelling Christmas in August 2004? Whatever happened to the ' tornado' that was supposed to descend on Johannesburg and Pretoria to devastating effect on 8 October 2007? Did the 100 000 women and children set to be trafficked into South Africa for the 2010 World Cup actually...

About the Author

Arthur Goldstuck

Arthur Goldstuck

In addition to his four best-sellers on South African urban legends, all published by Penguin, Arthur Goldstuck is the author of the best-selling The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Internet and the current guide to mobile technologies, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Going Wireless. An award-winning writer, he started out as a journalist, worked as editor of a variety of magazines, and was also news editor of The Weekly Mail and South African correspondent for Billboard. He has been a freelance writer for numerous local and international publications, from Cosmopolitan to The Times of London. A well-known commentator on trends and possibilities of technology, he presently heads up World Wide Worx, providing market research and strategy in the use of technology. Arthur’s book The Ghost That Closed Down the Town (Penguin, 2006), was selected for Publishers’ Choice. In October 2010 Arthur published his lastest book Burglar in the Bin Bag. Follow Arthur on Twitter. http://www.gadget.co.za

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