About the Book: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
A book of substance and importance … written in an engaging, straightforward
style David Shulman
On June 14th, 2007, the King and Prime Minister of Sweden went missing from a
gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said that both had fallen ill:
the truth is different. The real story starts much earlier, in 1961, with the
birth of Nombeko Mayeki in a shack in Soweto. Nombeko was fated to grow up fast
and die early in her poverty-stricken township, be it from drugs, from alcohol,
or just from plain despair. But