Yesterday's News

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>Marcus Botha a ruthless 1960s South African mining and shipping tycoon reinvents himself as a UK media magnate whose sensational publications capture a nation in flux. </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>Two decades later as the echoes of apartheid recede his dark past threatens to overrun his dazzling empire.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>In a world where scandal and power collide Botha's newspapers chronicle everything from celebrity sex scandals and AIDS hysteria to the seismic shifts of political upheaval-the Poll Tax riots the Hillsborough disaster and the waning of Thatcherism. Behind his defiant public stance against extradition a perilous undercurrent of financial misdeeds and past transgressions simmers as a disastrous foray into satellite TV puts everything at risk.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>When the carefully constructed façade begins to crack one fateful twist promises to shatter the empire. Can Botha's crimes remain forever buried?</span></p><p></p>