Death Flight: Apartheid's secret doctrine of disappearance

by Michael Schmidt

In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was established, tasked with the murder of hundreds of ANC, PAC, and SWAPO members. Victims’ bodies were flung from aircraft into the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the detailed analysis of flight logs and numerous interviews, Death Flight sheds shocking new light on one of apartheid’s darkest chapters.

363 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 16, 2020

Reviews

[Andreas Rocksén · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well researched and fairly well written. South Africa in apartheid times was a very dark place.