BEHIND THE DOOR - MANDY WIENER AND BARRY BATEMAN

                                                                                                    

Cape Town Launch

The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story

MANDY WIENER AND BARRY BATEMAN

Exclusive content, including interviews, phone messages, photographs and affidavits

‘Behind the Door is definitive, engrossing, fascinating, brilliant and utterly unputdownable.

Wiener has no equal when it comes to true crime, and Bateman’s first-journalist-on-the-crime-scene insight gives it a huge boost.’

– DEON MEYER, author of Cobra and other bestselling crime novels

WHEN            Wednesday 5 November at 12 for 12h30WHERE:        Buitenverwachting Restaurant 

 The news of successful model Reeva Steenkamp’s fatal shooting by her boyfriend and global sporting star Oscar Pistorius stunned the world. Over the ensuing weeks, as Pistorius appeared in court and applied for bail, every detail that emerged was analysed, debated, justified and digested. South Africa and the world in general were haunted by the events as they were repeated and discussed at length. Public perception vacillated from version to version and from hour to hour.

Behind the Door is a compelling narrative that unpacks the true facts of the story, as revealed in the courtroom and beyond during the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius and as told to the authors in several exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes briefings. It looks at the characters involved, relates the courtroom interactions and dramas, the construction of each side’s argument, the analysis of forensic and circumstantial evidence and exchanges between the personalities, as well as a broader look at violence and criminal justice in South Africa.

Vivid and gripping, insightful and authoritative, Behind the Door is the book to read on the Reeva and Oscar story.

Meet the authors:

MANDY WIENER (@MandyWiener) is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the true-crime bestseller Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed and the acclaimed memoir My Second Initiation (co-written with Advocate Vusi Pikoli). Wiener has been reporting on crime, the courts and politics in South Africa for the past decade.

BARRY BATEMAN (@barrybateman) has been reporting in Pretoria, the hometown of Oscar Pistorius, for more than ten years, for the last four of these as the Pretoria Correspondent for Eyewitness News, for which he has won several awards. Bateman was the first journalist on the scene of the shooting and has been covering every development since.

GOURMET LUNCHEON INCLUDING WINE

Price is R270 per person fully inclusive

To book or for more information - Email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone Sandy 021 685 8016

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RONNIE MUHL AT BUITENVERWACHTING

Join us for lunch with Ronnie Muhl, athlete, adventurer, author and thoroughly inspiring person.

Date                Thursday 13 November 2014

Time                12 noon for 12h30

Venue              Buitenverwachting Restaurant

Speaker           Ronnie Muhl

Ronnie has summited Everest more times than I have ventured up Table Mountain.  As an adventurer, he is on a quest to climb the Seven Summits and in 2007 became the 7th South African to summit Mt Everest via the North-east Ridge. 

Recently I had the good fortune to hear him at a networking breakfast I attend regularly and knew that as the year draws to a close you would thoroughly enjoy meeting him. 

As an author, he has written Inspiration, a treasury of wisdom and the second book in his Inspiration series will be available soon. Ronnie has also written of the adventures leading up to his summit of Mt Everest in Everest Surviving the Death Zone.

In the last two years he has spent four months on the North Face of Mt Everest and what he endured there has changed his life forever. What he has to share might very well change yours. So, make sure your harness is buckled and your rope is tight, as Ronnie Muhl will no doubt take you right to the edge and when he finally brings you back, you will have glimpsed your very own Everest, with all its tears and triumphs.

Edgar will be creating his magic in the Buiten kitchens the menu is available on request.

The price per person is R270 fully inclusive.

Please join me in welcoming Ronnie to the Thursday Club.  By email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone 021 685 8016 to book or for information.

Regards

Sandy