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"Max du Preez het 'n helse storie om te vertel. Tydens sy loopbaan as 'n hardegat-joernalis is hy drie keer afgedank; sewe keer weens laster gedagvaar; dertien keer krimineel aangekla en het hy drie vliegtuigongelukke, twee sluipmoordpogings en 'n bomaanval oorleef. Hy was in Soweto op 16 Junie 1976, hy was ooggetuie van die losbandige partytjies van ministers tydens die apartheidsjare en het 'n sterwende soldaat se woorde in 'n Angolese dorpie aangehoor. Hy het die Vlakplaas-baas Dirk Coetzee in die oë gekyk en sy hele verhaal van die polisie se moordbendes gepubliseer. Toe hy self by Vlakplaa."
"Max du Preez has one hell of a story to tell. In his career as a renegade reporter, he's survived three dismissals, seven libel suits, thirteen criminal cases, four aeroplane crashes, a bombing, two assassination attempts and was a regular on right-wing hit lists. He was in Soweto on 16 June 1976, witnessed the debauched parties of apartheid cabinet ministers, and stepped over dead bodies in a bombed Angolan village. He looked into apartheid killer Dirk Coetzee's eyes and published his story of police death squads, and when he visited Vlakplaas himself, he was lucky to get out alive. Max is bes."@en