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External Mission - The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990 (Paperback)
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External Mission - The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990 (Paperback)
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External Mission is the Winner of the Recht Malan Prize for
Non-Fiction awarded by Media24 in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's
release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable
moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the removal of
the ban on the African National Congress; founded a century ago and
outlawed in 1960, it had transferred its headquarters abroad and
opened what it termed an External Mission. For the thirty years
following its banning, the ANC had fought relentlessly against the
apartheid state. Finally voted into office in 1994, the ANC today
regards its armed struggle as the central plank of its legitimacy.
External Mission is the first study of the ANC s period in exile,
based on a full range of sources in southern Africa and Europe.
These include the ANC s own archives and also those of the Stasi,
the East German ministry that trained the ANC's security personnel.
It reveals that the decision to create the Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear
of the Nation) -- a guerrilla army which later became the ANC's
armed wing -- was made not by the ANC but by its allies in the
South African Communist Party after negotiations with Chinese
leader Mao Zedong.In this impressive work, Ellis shows that many of
the strategic decisions made, and many of the political issues that
arose during the course of that protracted armed struggle, had a
lasting effect on South Africa, shaping its society even up to the
present day.
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