Yesterday's News

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. Two decades later, as the echoes of apartheid recede, his dark past threatens to overrun his dazzling empire.

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 disas...