South Africa: Anatomy of a Cover-Up | Ep. 1 — BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Episode 1 of a two-part investigation. Episode 2 available from 24 August 2026. When police investigator Frans Mathipa began investigating the abduction of a suspected Islamic State operative by South Africa's Special Forces, the case led him deep into the shadowy world of covert operations - a journey from which he would never return. Months later, he was fatally shot on a highway outside Pretoria.

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