Man Alone by Caryn Dolley

Mandelas Top Cop Exposing South Africas Ceaseless Sabotage

284 pages, Paperback

Published 2024

Condition: LIKE NEW: This book is almost as new, with no damage nor defects. There no markings, inscriptions or signatures of any kind, pages are clean and vibrant. 

Inside the battles to fight police corruption

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 Africas highest-ranking politicians and senior government agents.

André Lincolns life exposes the dirty ploys that have swung South Africas trajectory; how street-level killings could be flashpoints of deep state proxy wars; and raises suspicions about who in Mandelas realm backstabbed whom.

With exclusive access to Lincoln, journalist 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 and research exposes, for the first time and in full, the sordid scandal with Lincoln at its centre that has lacerated the South African Police Service and implicated some of the countrys top cops and politicians.