Armed and Dangerous - From undercover struggle to freedom - Ronnie Kasrils

Dedicated and Signed by Minister Ronnie Kastrils on the first page.

Armed and Dangerous - From undercover struggle to freedom - Ronnie Kasrils

Softcover, ISBN 1868420639
Publisher: Mayibuye Books/Jonathan Ball Publishers-, 1998

Condition: Very Good.The wraps have some very, very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.

Ronald Kasrils is a South African politician, former guerrilla and military commander. He served in a number of ministerial posts, including the as Minister for Intelligence Services from 2004 to 2008. 

• During the years of apartheid rule in South Africa, Ronnie Kasrils worked for the banned ANC, its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe and the South African Communist Party.

  Hunted by the security police, he was described by them as 'Armed and Dangerous'. This is his riveting first-hand account of the tense and dramatic years of the liberation struggle, which are now contrasted so strikingly as a result of the change of power and democratic government.

  Originally published in 1993, Kasrils has added eight new chapters and many new photographs for this revised and updated edition. These cover the years from 1994 to the present time where he now serves as South Africa's Deputy Minister of Defence in the new government.

• 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.