LEADER 04541cam a2200445 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20241216113504.0 008 150506s2014 sa abc b 001 0beng 010 2015409098 020 9781431409754 040 OI@ |beng |cOI@ |dCUS |dOCLCF |dYDXCP |dDLC |dhubpceuo 041 eng 043 f-sa--- 050 00 DT1949.S38 |bD53 2014 082 323.1196 100 1 Dlamini, Jacob, |d1973- 245 10 Askari : |ba story of collaboration and betrayal in the anti-apartheid struggle / |cJacob Dlamini. 260 Auckland Park, South Africa : |bJacana, |c2014. 300 x, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |bcolour illustrations, map, chiefly colour portraits ; |c24 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 299-307). 520 "In 1986 'Comrade September', a charismatic ANC operative and popular MK commander, was abducted from Swaziland by the apartheid security police and taken across the border. After torture and interrogation, September was 'turned' and before long the police had extracted enough information to hunt down and kill some of his former comrades. September underwent changes that marked him for the rest of his life: from resister to collaborator, insurgent to counter-insurgent, revolutionary to counter-revolutionary and, to his former comrades, hero to traitor. Askari is the story of these changes in an individual's life and of the larger, neglected history of betrayal and collaboration in the struggle against apartheid. It seeks to understand why September made the choices he did - collaborating with his captors, turning against the ANC, and then hunting down his comrades - without excusing those choices. It looks beyond the black-and-white that still dominates South Africa's political canvas, to examine the grey zones in which South Africans - combatants and non-combatants - lived." -- publisher 520 This is the story of Comrade September, a member of the ANC and its military wing, MK. He was abducted from his hideout in Swaziland by an apartheid death squad in August 1986 and taken across the border to South Africa, where his interrogation and torture began. It was not long before September began telling his captors about his comrades in the ANC. By talking under torture, September underwent changes that marked him for the rest of his life: from resister to collaborator, insurgent to counter-insurgent, revolutionary to counter-revolutionary and, to his former comrades, hero to traitor. This book is about these changes and about the larger, neglected story of betrayal and collaboration in the struggle against apartheid. It seeks to understand why September made the choices he did--collaborating with his captors, turning against the ANC, and then hunting down his comrades--without excusing those choices. Looking beyond the black and white that still dominates South Africa's political canvas, the book examines the grey zones in which South Africans, combatants and noncombatant, lived. It seeks to contribute to scholarly attempts to elaborate a denser, richer and more nuanced account of South Africa's modern political history. It does so by examining the history of political violence in South Africa; by looking at the workings of an apartheid death squad in an attempt to understand how the apartheid bureaucracy worked; and, more importantly, by studying the social, moral and political universe in which apartheid collaborators like September lived and worked. 600 10 Sedibe, Glory Lefoshie, |d1953-1994. 610 20 Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) 610 20 African National Congress. 650 0 Betrayal |zSouth Africa. 650 0 Anti-apartheid activists |zSouth Africa |vBiography. 650 0 Collaborationists |zSouth Africa |vBiography. 650 0 Assassination |zSouth Africa. 650 0 Apartheid |zSouth Africa. 651 0 South Africa |vBiography. 856 42 |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1516/2015409098-b.html 856 42 |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1516/2015409098-d.html 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6323_119600000000000_DLA |70 |8GEN |9165198OSA |bOSA |d2024-10-30 |eOSA |o323.1196 DLA |r2024-10-30 |w2024-10-30 |yBK |zDonation of István Rév. |cOSA Repository 920 01 BY11qvY4 992 01 323_119600000000000_DLA |bWXW_YYQTZZZZZZZZZZZ_MEP 966 |cIn the Research Room