This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne sits down with Peter Collins, a globally recognized operational forensic psychiatrist who’s spent over 30 years on the frontline of violent crime investigations.

Collins isn’t a “profiler”—he’s a psychiatrist who’s shaped how police understand, manage, and investigate high-risk offenders. From hostage negotiations and threat assessments to developing tools like ViCLAS for linking violent crimes, Collins has worked with agencies across North America, Europe, and beyond, including the FBI, Interpol, and Europol.

In this episode:

• Forensic Psychiatry in Action – How psychiatry supports investigations, policing, and public safety.

• Threat Assessment & Hostage Negotiation – Lessons from decades with Toronto Police’s Emergency Task Force.

• Linkage Systems – The creation of ViCLAS and its role in connecting violent crimes.

• Global Perspective – Collaborating with elite law enforcement worldwide.

• Beyond Profiling – Why understanding behavior runs deeper than just “profiling.”

With multiple national honors and a forthcoming Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Homicide Investigators Association, Peter Collins brings unmatched expertise to this conversation.

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This week, forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne takes us inside one of South Africa’s most disturbing — yet largely ignored — serial murder cases.

Between 2007 and 2009, 16 women and a child were raped, strangled and dumped in the bushveld around Westonaria and Lenasia. Most victims were unidentified. Many were unemployed, vulnerable, and invisible to the public eye. But not to their killer — Madumetja Jack Mogale.

In this episode:

From con-man prophet to convicted killer, this is the story of The Westonaria Strangler — a case that should have shaken the nation.

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For years, Profiler Africa has warned that cracks were forming inside South Africa’s law enforcement system. This week, those cracks turned into a full-blown fracture.

Explosive allegations by KZN Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi — pointing to a criminal syndicate operating within the SAPS — have forced the President’s hand, sidelined the Police Minister, and plunged the country into chaos.

In this episode, we strip away the headlines and ask:

• What does this mean for the average citizen?

• How do corrupt systems rot from within?

• And what happens when the institution meant to protect you is part of the threat?

Then:
Gerard Labuschagne takes your questions in a no-holds-barred Q&A — on crime, unsolved cases, and what it's really like inside the mind of a killer.

This isn’t just news. It’s a reckoning.

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This week on Profiler Africa, South Africa's leading forensic psychologist Gerard Labuschagne takes us inside a shocking event that rocked an affluent Johannesburg suburb: the 2011 Rosebank Police Station shooting. More than just a lone disgruntled employee, this case exposes the dangerous cracks within law enforcement and the chilling reality of workplace violence.

We delve into:

• The Perpetrator & The Spark: Who was Kekana, the admin clerk whose dismissal triggered this tragedy, and what was the seemingly minor fraud that set it all in motion?

• Ignored Warnings: The explicit threats made to Captain Neelavathie NAIDU and other officers before the shooting – and why these critical warning signs were dismissed.

• Systemic Failure: Kekana's troubling access to firearms, the lack of proactive threat management within SAPS, and how internal dynamics contributed to the disaster.

• Explosive Allegations: We also include a critical current affairs segment unpacking recent, high-level corruption claims by a provincial police commissioner, revealing how powerful criminal syndicates may control elements within Parliament, police, and the judiciary.

• Lessons NOT Learned: Why, even after this horrific incident, crucial changes to police protocol and employee safety never materialized.

Also this week: Don't miss the next episode of our documentary series South African Serial – covering the infamous case of Donovan Moodley and the kidnap and murder of Leigh Matthews. This episode will be live for all viewers on Thursday, July 10th at 8 AM SAST.

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This week on Profiler Africa, forensic psychologist Gérard Labuschagne uncovers the terrifying world of muti murders — killings where body parts are harvested for traditional medicine. These aren’t random acts of violence. They’re deliberate, driven by belief, greed, and an underground economy that thrives in the shadows.

We dive into:

• What muti murder really means — and why it’s not just “ritual”

• A shocking case of a mother who killed her own child

• How investigators navigate cultural taboos, community silence, and legal blind spots

• Why justice rarely comes for the victims

Recorded live on YouTube | 1 July
Hosted by Paul Llewellyn & Gerard Labuschagne

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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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