The Shadow State: Why Babita Deokaran had to die

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Author: Jeff Wicks

In The Shadow State, Wicks uncovers an audacious web of crooked officials, ANC politicians, and extraction syndicates – including that of the notorious ‘Cat’ Matlala – siphoning away billions meant for patients in Gauteng’s public hospitals.

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On 23 August 2021, Babita Deokaran – a hardworking single mother and chief accountant at the Gauteng Department of Health – was shot down outside her home. The izinkabi paid to kill her were caught, but the question remained: Who ordered her murder, and why?

Investigative journalist Jeff Wicks set out to find the answer. This quest would profoundly change – even endanger – his life, as he bravely followed the leads Babita had left behind. Leads that the Hawks, who were officially investigating her assassination, had failed to act on.

An explosive, fast-paced investigation into greed and state capture, this book is also a moving tribute to the courage of one woman who, when confronted by powerful wrongdoers, refused to keep quiet.