• LIVES ON THE LINE, the story of the secret team that defeated South African urban terrorism

LIVES ON THE LINE, the story of the secret team that defeated South African urban terrorism

: Africa (D.)

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323pp., paperback, African Perspectives, Johannesburg, No Date

ISBN: 9781037021640

 

David Africa on how a team of spies working for a secret South African crime intelligence unit infiltrated and dismantled the Pagad G-Force, a splinter group of People Against Gangsterism (PAGAD) that evolved into a violent terror network. The urban terror campaign extended from 1996-2002. 

"This book provides an insider account of how an intelligence-led policing effort to manage urban terrorism in South Africa met with success." Graeme Herd, George C.Marshall European Centre for Security Studies, Germany.

"The defeat of Pagad stands out as one of the most dramatic intelligence achievements in the democratic era"  Kgalema Motlanthe, Former President of South Africa.

Struggle veteran and security analyst David Africa is currently Executive Director at African Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis. He joined the South African Police Service Crime Intelligence division in 1995. He  and headed the UN security analysis unit in Baghdad in 2006-2007.