In the mid-1990s, Nelson Mandela hand-picked Andre Lincoln to
head a secret unit that would explore the nexus between
government and gangsters. But the unit ruptured because of
accusations in 1997 that Lincoln was running a rogue operation
and colluding with the Italian Mafia. Lincoln countered that
apartheid-era cops framed him to cover up their involvement in
crimes, pre- and post-democracy.
He was first convicted but later vindicated in a case that
dislodged the names of some of South Africa's highest-ranking
politicians and senior government agents.
André Lincoln's life exposes the dirty ploys that have swung
South Africa's trajectory; how street-level killings could be
flashpoints of deep state proxy wars; and raises suspicions
about who in Mandela's realm backstabbed whom.
With exclusive access to Lincoln, Caryn Dolley uncovers the
electrifying dynamics of undercover work - first against the
state, then for it; she delves into court cases and through years
of reporting exposes, for the first time and in full, the sordid
scandal, with Lincoln at its centre, that has lacerated the SAPS
and implicated some of the country's top cops and politicians.
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