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Title: London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid

Book Title: London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid

ISBN: 0850366550

EAN: 9780850366556

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Date of Publication: 20120227

Release Title: London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid

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Publication Year: 2012

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Subject Area: Civil Service

Language: English

Publication Name: London Recruits: the Secret War Against Apartheid

Author: Ken Keable

Publisher: T.H.E. Merlin Press LTD

Subject: History

Number of Pages: 364 Pages

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The history of the anti-apartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their activities in South Africa, how they acted in defiance of the apartheid government and its police on the instructions of the African National Congress (ANC). From the transportation of weapons to the passage of ANC fighters into South Africa, this account describes the many risks taken by the volunteers-many of whom were young communists, Trotskyists, or independent socialists who travelled from the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United States-to join the cause.

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by HCyhWu78QPe@Deleted
Oct 17, 2012
Marvellous, powerful book.
I cannot recommend this marvellous book enough. It tells the story of the brave women and men who risked life and limb to travel to South Africa to carry out covert acts of propaganda against the Apartheid regime in the 1960s, 70s & 80s. From all walks of life, they were recruited by an extraordinary bear of a man. Ronnie Kasrils, a South African who was known in his own country as the 'red pimpernel'. Working in cells of only two or three people, the 'agents' were chosen through their connection with either trade unions, the Anti-Apartheid movement, the Communist Party and Young Communist League, or other left-wing organisations. After a completed mission, in order to protect those who came after, it was understood that the agents must never speak of what they had done. And indeed, nor ... I cannot recommend this marvellous book enough. It tells the story of the brave women and men who risked life and limb to travel to South Africa to carry out covert acts of propaganda against the Apartheid regime in the 1960s, 70s & 80s. From all walks of life, they were recruited by an extraordinary bear of a man. Ronnie Kasrils, a South African who was known in his own country as the 'red pimpernel'. Working in cells of only two or three people, the 'agents' were chosen through their connection with either trade unions, the Anti-Apartheid movement, the Communist Party and Young Communist League, or other left-wing organisations. After a completed mission, in order to protect those who came after, it was understood that the agents must never speak of what they had done. And indeed, nor did they: in the words of one of the recruits, "When Nelson Mandela was released and the regime fell, I wondered about telling people....then thought perhaps I should wait for permission though wasn't sure from whom. Then as time passed, what I had done belonged to a vanished world... I couldn't just start a conversation with 'guess what I did once'..." All these accounts are set within the context of South African politics at that time, which are covered in the foreword and introduction, with a light deftness of touch.With the Rivonia trials of 1964, in which practically every major black liberation activist was captured, morale was at its nadir and the black people of S. Africa must have felt utterly abandoned to their fate. Some freedom fighters were hanged, others like Nelson Mandela, sentenced to life imprisonment, so the time was ripe for the London Recruits to fill the vacuum: it was much easier for white people to move around freely within S.African society without arousing suspicion. Not all missions were successful; two of the volunteers were arrested, tortured and given long jail sentences. This may seem a disproportionate price to pay for the dissemination of leaflets and other propaganda. But in a closed society, a police state isolated from the rest of the world, the effect was galvanising. As Ronnie Kasrils explains in the forward "...it needs to be understood that in the context of repression and censorship, subversive literature has a far greater qualitative impact...than in normal times. The appearance of a leaflet or a chalked slogan on a wall... carries a distinct aura of its own." It is wonderful that these recruits can at last tell their stories in their own way. And they do so with humour and modesty. I understand that when most of them had been tracked down and invited to a reception at South Africa House in London in 2005, many were utterly astonished to recognise amongst the throng, old friends and comrades. None had spoken! It was at this meeting that the book London Recruits was first mooted. The world is richer for it.

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