The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

by Jan Stocklassa

I put together a list of important deaths and events in which South Africa and their business partners stood to gain something from an assassination or other dark deed being carried out. I included many events that were known to have been carried out by South African security services—for example, the murders of Griffiths Mxenge, Ruth First, and Jeannette Schoon. Other deaths had been investigated, but the South African authorities had decided they were accidents—for example, Samora Machel, Franz Esser, and Peter Casselton. Some events were not directly linked to South Africa, such as Olof Palme’s assassination, but did further their goals. Finally there were deaths that were not directly tied to South Africa and were considered accidents by the police, such as those of Swedish journalist Cats Falck and Carl-Fredrik Algernon of the National Swedish War Materials Inspectorate.