Siphiwe nyanda biography of albert einstein
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The Observation Post
Liliesleaf, Rivonia (August –11 July )
By Garth Conan Benneyworth
Abstract
The police raid on Liliesleaf on 11 July is understood to be the result of informants within the liberation movements either breaking down in detention or “selling out” and providing upplysning about the farm with its safe house and its people. This paper, while acknowledging that there were informants inside the liberation movements, maintains that this was only a fragment of a kaleidoscope of events culminating in the raid and subsequent Rivonia Trial. Rather it was a covert investigation undertaken since that resulted in the blow delivered by the combined säkerhet agencies, that shattered the underground networks opposing the apartheid state. It was an investigation which relied extensively on the principles of the mythological Greek Trojan horse; it used persons and technology that aimed to undermine and overthrow their opponent, to subvert and defeat it from within, while ap
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The Observation Post
Torch Commando Series – Part 5
The Smoking Gun
The military ‘struggle’ of White South Africans against Apartheid is a complex one seldom acknowledged. It’s politically ‘inconvenient’ history and hidden from the mainstream. It is often presented in a fragmented manner, somehow dipping in and out of the struggle narrative as a ‘few’ whites with a conscience prepared to forsake their Apartheid white privilege. The advent of this narrative now deepened bygd revolutionist rhetoric which by its very nature is very unbalanced.
The simple truth is that the ‘white’ struggle against Apartheid fryst vatten far from a mere side note in the annals of South Africa’s liberation struggle. A full understanding the ‘white’ struggle exposes one overarching truth, the history of the struggle against Apartheid has less to do with race and more to do with ideology. Race was the raison d&#;être for Apartheid as an ideology, so it’s hard for many to step away from the logic that says
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27 Aug : Maharaj, Zarina
POM. I want to pick up where Mac said he's back off to South Africa. This would be late December, beginning of He's now been with the kids basically since the previous August.
ZM. Yes he landed in London that year on 21 July, on my niece's birthday.
POM. We covered that. We got as far as he took the kids to Lusaka.
ZM. Oh yes, then he went to Lusaka, he disposed of a whole lot of stuff there.
POM. Did he go to Lusaka more than once?
ZM. That time when he took the kids, he only went that time, he only went once. And then he came back when I was then I moved in with a brother of mine who was living in Brighton and he came back to London having sorted out a whole lot of stuff with the kids. He came back to Brighton with the kids in - I imagine it was October.
POM. So he arranged for everything to be moved from Lusaka to London?
ZM. Basically he packed up and brought the stuff that we needed in London, books especially. I don't know what I had there, c