South Africa, July 15 -- Maverick 451, the publishing division of Daily Maverick, today announces the publication of The Untouchables: Drug Lords, Dirty Cops, and South Africa's Darkest Secrets by award-winning investigative journalist Caryn Dolley, due for release on 17 August 2026.

The book arrives at a moment of acute national urgency. The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry - the most significant criminal justice reckoning in South Africa's post-apartheid history - is preparing to wrap up its hearings and conclude later this year. Arrests are continuing in real time. A suspended national police commissioner faces criminal charges. A police minister has been sidelined over alleged cartel connections. More than R300m in cocaine has disappea...