The lost boys of Bird Island

By Mark Minnie

Subjects: Politics and government, Police corruption, Sex scandals, Child sexual abuse, National Party (South Africa), Child molesters

Description: It is the late 1980s. Allegations surface against three prominent National Party cabinet ministers: they are, it is said, abusing young boys on an island off the coast of Port Elizabeth. Mark Minnie, a cop, and Chris Steyn, a journalist, uncover evidence of this dark secret, but the case gets buried. Thirty years later, the two finally expose this shocking story of cover-ups and official complicity in the rape and possible murder of children