{"id":860394,"date":"2025-07-05T19:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/rip-andre-lincoln-former-mandelas-bodyguard-described-as-a-good-and-skilled-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:17:59","slug":"rip-andre-lincoln-former-mandelas-bodyguard-described-as-a-good-and-skilled-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/rip-andre-lincoln-former-mandelas-bodyguard-described-as-a-good-and-skilled-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Andre Lincoln | Former Mandela&#8217;s bodyguard described as a good and skilled leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<article data-history-node-id=\"290986\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Saturday 14 June 2025 &#8211; 16:15pm<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>CAPE TOWN &#8211; <span>Western Cape Police Commissioner, Thembisile Patekile has paid tribute Andre Lincoln, describing him as a skilled leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The former anti-gang unit head and late former president Nelson Mandela\u2019s bodyguard\u00a0retired from active duty in 2021, but remained concerned about rampant crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/watch-retired-major-general-andre-lincoln-laid-rest\"><span><strong>READ: Retired Major-General Andr\u00e9 Lincoln laid to rest<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>He died almost two weeks ago after a long illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lincoln has been described as a distinguished veteran of the South African Police Service and a dedicated servant of the nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Reverend Allan Boesak claims \u00a0Lincoln died from a broken heart.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He shared these sentiments at Lincoln&#8217;s funeral.<\/span><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> eNCA<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/rip-andre-lincoln-former-mandelas-bodyguard-described-good-and-skilled-leader\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 14 June 2025 &#8211; 16:15pm CAPE TOWN &#8211; Western Cape Police Commissioner, Thembisile Patekile has paid tribute Andre Lincoln, describing him as a skilled leader. The former anti-gang unit head and late former president Nelson Mandela\u2019s bodyguard\u00a0retired from active duty in 2021, but remained concerned about rampant crime. READ: Retired Major-General Andr\u00e9 Lincoln laid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2324,23306],"tags":[16017,20599],"class_list":{"0":"post-860394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-andre","8":"category-lincoln","9":"tag-andre","10":"tag-lincoln"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}