This week, Profiler Africa goes behind the scenes of South Africa’s most high-stakes standoffs with Dr Ernst Strydom — SAPS’ former National Coordinator of Hostage Negotiations.

Host Paul Llewellyn and forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne dig into the psychology of crisis and negotiation, guided by the man who trained the nation’s negotiators and led SAPS through hijackings, bomb threats, and terrorist incidents.

🔍 In this episode:

• What makes a hostage-taker tick — and how negotiators break the cycle

• Inside SAPS responses to terrorism, kidnappings, and mass casualty events

• The anatomy of a standoff — and what finally makes people crack

• Where SAPS got crisis psychology right… and where it didn’t

👤 About our guest:
Dr Ernst Strydom is a retired SAPS colonel, educational psychologist, and one of South Africa’s leading voices in hostage negotiation and trauma response. Over 30 years, he built and led the country’s negotiation units, trained over 70 teams, and represented SAPS internationally — including at the FBI Academy.

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In this explosive episode, Paul and Gerard sit down with retired Colonel Tollie Vreugdenburg — former head of SAPS Counter-Terrorism — to expose the chilling truth behind one of the most dangerous domestic terror plots in South African history: the Boeremag.

This white supremacist militia planned to bomb the country into civil war, assassinate Nelson Mandela, and launch a violent coup. But thanks to Tollie and a small team of investigators, South Africa narrowly avoided its own 9/11.

Inside the episode:

• Who the Boeremag were — and why they were more dangerous than you think

• “Document 12”: the plan for a white ethnostate

• Bombings, betrayal, and a doomsday that almost happened

• How the police cracked the plot just in time

• Religious prophecy, survivalism, and apocalyptic racism

• Why this case still matters today

About our guest:
Col. Tollie Vreugdenburg led the SAPS investigation that brought the Boeremag down. A veteran of Limpopo’s Murder and Robbery unit, he was central to exposing the coup plot. He also contributed to The High Treason Club, the definitive book on the case.

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This week on Profiler Africa, we go deep into one of the most brutal and misunderstood crime waves in South Africa — farm murders.

Host Paul Llewellyn and forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne are joined by veteran detective Gawie “Sakkie” Louwrens, who’s investigated over 300 farm killings. Now retired from SAPS, Sakkie leads an independent rural crime unit taking on what the police can’t — or won’t.

Forget the headlines and political spin. This episode is about the real people living — and dying — on South Africa’s farms.

🔍 What we cover:

• What the stats really say about farm attacks

• Why economics, not race, drives most of these crimes

• Six harrowing cases: torture, arson, air rifles, and more

• The myth of “white genocide” and how it hurts real prevention

• Survivors, families, and the frontline investigators

• What needs to change to break the cycle

🧠 Guest:
Gawie “Sakkie” Louwrens — 26 years in SAPS, former head of Limpopo’s murder and organised crime unit, now founder of Bosveld Misdaad Ondersoeke, an independent rural crime task team.

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