Plot for Peace review – Intriguing documentary about South Africa’s secret history

This is the fascinating story of the wheeler-dealer Frenchman Jean-Yves Ollivier, who might have stepped out of a Frederick Forsyth novel.

Here is an intriguing documentary, with some impressive talking heads, all about the secret history of South Africa and the end of apartheid. But I wonder if a great deal is still being withheld about its leading player, an urbane, cigar-smoking, wheeler-dealer Frenchman named Jean-Yves Ollivier who might have stepped from the pages of a Frederick Forsyth novel.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/13/plot-for-peace-apartheid-south-africa-review