David Beresford, longtime Johannesburg correspondent for The Guardian, unpacks RW Johnson’s (remember him?) research methods in his (Johnson not Beresford’s) new book, “South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid,” published last year.
Johnson writes libelous things about the dead because they can’t sue, according to Beresford. And then there’s this method of research:
… [Johnson] writes: “not only was (Robert) Mugabe one of the few people given a fore-warning of the events of 9/11, but he had actually allowed al-Qaeda militants to fly into Zimbabwe in the week following 9/11 to get fitted out with false Zimbabwean passports”, thus suggesting that Mugabe was an accomplice before and after the fact in the destruction of the twin towers. Turning to the relevant footnote for the source of this mind-boggling claim, I read: “See RW Johnson.”
