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Item Details
| Title:
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
MY UNDERCOVER STRUGGLES AGAINST APARTHEID |
| By: |
Ronnie Kasrils |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£15.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
143140795X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781431407958 |
| Publisher: |
JACANA MEDIA (PTY) LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2013 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
This insider's account of the workings of Umkhonto weSizwe, during the underground years, is a modern-day story of intrigue and cunning in the fight against apartheid. The author begins by describing his involvement with the South African Communist Party and the underground resistance within South Africa in the 1950s and early 1960s. |
| Synopsis: |
This insider's account of the workings of Umkhonto weSizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, during the underground years, is a modern-day story of intrigue and cunning in the fight against apartheid. The author, Ronnie Kasrils, begins by describing his involvement with the South African Communist Party and the underground resistance within South Africa in the 1950s and early 1960s. Following the arrests of Mandela and other ANC leaders, he fled into hiding overseas, became one of the key commanders of Umkhonto weSizwe and was responsible for setting up training camps in Tanzania, Cuba and elsewhere. Kasrils became notorious as the "Red Pimpernel" as he slipped in and out of South Africa in a plethora of disguises to run secret missions, narrowly escaping arrest and detention in several close shaves with security forces. After the legalising of the ANC and SACP, he returned to Johannesburg to take up a position on the National Executive Committee. The story culminates with the disastrous march on Bisho in the Ciskei homelands in September 1992, when police opened fire on the crowd that Kasrils was leading and a massacre ensued. |
| Publication: |
South Africa |
| Imprint: |
Jacana Media |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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