Gangster State: V&A Waterfront book launch cancelled amid security fears, venue changed
11 April 2019
The V&A Waterfront has cancelled the Cape Town leg of Pieter Louis-Myburgh's book launch for Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture at its Exclusive Books branch.
Instead, the launch will now take place at the Primedia auditorium in De Waterkant.
The cancellation comes a few days after a group of protesters, some wearing ANC T-shirts, disrupted the book's Gauteng launch in Sandton on Tuesday. They ripped apart some copies of the book and threw the pages around, News24 reported.
Donald Kau, head of PR and communications at the V&A Waterfront, confirmed to News24 that, after a three-way meeting between the V&A Waterfront, Exclusive Books and the South African Police Service, a decision had been taken to cancel the launch, "primarily informed by the safety of our patrons."