Michael Schmidt
Based in Johannesburg, Michael Schmidt is a best-selling non-fiction author and award-winning investigative journalist who has worked in 49 countries on six continents, including in many conflict zones. His books on late apartheid include Drinking with Ghosts (BestRed, 2014), Death Flight (Tafelberg, 2020), and the forthcoming Necrostate (Jacana, 2026).
Articles By This Author
PW and the assassin
The apartheid state’s assassination of ANC chief representatives abroad has been raised in recent testimony before the Khampepe Commission of inquiry into the sabotaging of prosecutions that should have followed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) after 2003.
Countering the perilous rightward drift: why we need a coherent socialist proposition
Once the “reds under the bed” bugbear against which the entire resources of PW Botha’s militarist apartheid state was marshalled, the “South African Revolution” (capital
Iran and the rot at the root of much progressive discourse
A particularly odious thing happens with sickening regularity when peoples legitimately rise up against the authoritarian regimes that repress them: many otherwise vocal human rights
Africa’s lingering influence in the metropole
With Nicolas Sarkozy going down for five years in prison for criminal association tied to illegal campaign funding from Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, the spectre of
Death cults triumph? Despair and horror in the Middle East
Sderot, Gaza border – The very last thing one expects when arriving at Israel’s international airport during a war in which the nation founded by