The President’s Keepers Book Shared Online

NB Publishers who are the custodians of the contoversial book ‘The President’s Keepers’ is urging South Africans not to take advantage of a “pirated and hacked” PDF copy of the book doing the rounds on social media.

Soon after news broke that the book may possibly be withdrawn or banned, a PDF edition of the book was disseminated on social media.

The book reveals shocking details of President Jacob Zuma’s tax matters and also explains how director general of the SSA Arthur Fraser was complicit in the looting of more than R1-billion from the Principle Agent Network slush fund.

Zuma‚ the book explains‚ did not submit his tax returns for years.

The Presidency issued a statement earlier this week saying the president’s tax affairs were in order and denied that he had received undeclared funds.

Threat of legal action

South Africa’s spy agency, the State Security Agency issued a cease and desist letter to NB Publishers and also accusing the author Jacques Pauw‚ the publishers and the Sunday Times‚ who printed extracts of the book last weekend‚ of compromising state security.

“A pirated‚ hacked copy of The President’s Keepers is being shared on social media. As NB Publishers‚ the publisher of Pauw’s important book‚ we understand that many South Africans are doing this innocently‚ believing it to be a protest against the State Security Agency’s attempt to have the book withdrawn‚” NB Publishers said in a statement on Saturday.