Inside Quatro: Uncovering the exile history of the ANC and SWAPO

This title uncovers some of the exile history of the ANC and SWAPO that both organisations would prefer not to remember. Here is a first-hand account of the ANC's Quatro prison camp and of the mutiny in Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in Angola in 1984; articles on the SWAPO 'spy drama' of the 1970s and 1980s; an analysis of a death in exile with implications relating to Jacob Zuma; and a study of the responses of both the ANC and SWAPO to these episodes of intolerance, repression and excess. In all his essays, Trewelha analyses problems of the liberation struggles with a former insider's knowledge and a journalist's ability to ferret out the facts.

Paul Trewhela is a long-time South African activist who worked in underground journalism with Ruth First and edited the underground journal MK, Freedom Fighter during the Rivonia Trial. He was a political prisoner in Pretoria and the Johannesburg Fort for being a member of the Communist Party from 1964 to 1967. Since becoming an exile in England, he has been the coeditor of Searchlight South Africa and publishes on South African politics.