by Amy on Jun 15th, 2012
On 25 June, the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) will host a public dialogue on the subject of London Recruits: The Secret War against Apartheid.
Editor Ken Keable will be in conversation with Pallo Jordan, Ronnie Kasrils and Aziz Pahad in a session chaired by the CCR’s Adekeye Adebajo. The event takes place in UCT’s Kramer Law Building at 5:30 PM.
Don’t miss it!
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by Amy on Jun 15th, 2012
Dan Carrier interviewed Ken Keable, editor of London Recruits, for the Camden New Journal. Keable talks about turning 60 and deciding that it was time to finally tell the story of the men and women that played a part in the struggle against apartheid from London. Graeme Whyte smuggled thousands of leaflets into South Africa, and in a video interview conducted for the book he shows how they adjusted the bottom of a suitcase to include a hidden compartment where the leaflets were kept.
The campaign started with nervous-looking men and women sneaking into quiet clearings in woods on Hampstead Heath where the only people likely to disturb them were early morning dog-walkers.
It culminated on the bustling streets of Pretoria, Cape Town and Johannesburg – where the prying eyes belonged to the state secret police.
They were undercover agents of the African National Congress (ANC), planning a propaganda campaign to tell the South African people that the flame of freedom had not been extinguished.
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by Amy on Jun 15th, 2012
Plague, Pox and Pandemics is the first history of epidemics in South Africa – lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between the 1700s and today – smallpox, bubonic plague, Spanish flu, polio and HIV/AIDS – the book probes their origin, their catastrophic course and their consequences in both the short and long term.
As each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country’s history – early in European colonisation, in the midst the mineral revolution, during the South African War and World War I, as industrialisation got under way, and within the eras of apartheid and post-apartheid – Howard Phillips also examines how these processes affected and were affected by the five epidemics. South African history should not look the same to readers after they have finished this book.
About the author
Howard Phillips is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he pioneered research in and the teaching of the social history of medicine and disease.
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