In 1976 Max du Preez witnessed the first stones thrown and the first shots fired in Soweto  on June 16 as a young newspaper reporter. Having grown up in the heart of Afrikaner  nationalism, it was the end of his normal.

It was also the end of normal for white South Africans, most of whom were living in blissful ignorance. The events of 1976 set in motion a continuous series of developments  that led to the ruling National Party and the main liberation movement reaching a  settlement in 1994 that brought democracy to South Africa for the first time.

Over the last fifty years, Du Preez has had a front-row seat witnessing South Africa’s  darkest and brightest moments as a journalist.

He paints a colourful story as a child of apartheid, doing his military service, studying at  Stellenbosch University and starting his career at Afrikaans newspapers. But what he  experienced and had to report on, eventually led him to rebel and become a traitor to his  volk and a media terrorist exposing apartheid’s darkest secrets.

In The End of Normal he explores how otherwise decent people came to implement and  support an evil system like apartheid. He examines the long-term impact of June 16 and  takes a hard look at white and black attitudes today, in particular the resurrection of  Afrikaner nationalism.

A raw and honest account spiced with fascinating anecdotes, confessions and revelations.