Where bad books go to die and why no one will admit to writing them

24 July 2016 - 02:00

By Rosa Lyster

Rosa Lyster goes on a wild goose chase for the real author of banned 1963 novel An Act of Immorality

IN 1963 the apartheid state tried to take control of South African literature with the introduction of the Publications and Entertainments Act, which ushered in one of the most comprehensive censorship systems in the world.

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