From the Outside Looking In: Building an Underground from Exile

Abstract

This paper was presented in the panel entitled ‘The Role of Underground Structures and Operatives in Political Resistance’ at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Paris, 8th to 10th July 2015. It deals with the author's experience as a member of the underground structures of South Africa's national liberation movement, the African National Congress based in Botswana during the struggle against apartheid.