Mafia Land

Mafia Land by multi-award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Cowan, looks behind the façade of South Africa to reveal a brutal shadow world ruled by mafias, cartels, and crime syndicates. There’s the tobacco mafia. The water tanker mafia. The taxi mafia. The hospital mafia. The construction mafia. The kidnapping mafia. Even the police mafia. Lourensa Eckard asks Kyle: are the criminal underworld and the state so intertwined that it has become near impossible to distinguish one from the other? Has South Africa become a mafia state?

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Mafia Land deur die veelbekroonde ondersoekende joernalis Kyle Cowan, kyk agter die fasade van Suid-Afrika in om ’n wrede skaduwêreld te onthul wat deur mafias, kartelle en misdaadsindikate beheer word. Daar is die tabakmafia. Die watertenkwa-mafia. Die taximafia. Die hospitaalmafia. Die konstruksiemafia. Die ontvoeringsmafia. Selfs die polisiemafia. Lourensa Eckard vra vir Kyle: Is die kriminele onderwêreld en die staat só verweef dat dit byna onmoontlik geword het om die een van die ander te onderskei? Het Suid-Afrika ’n mafiastaat geword?