Author: Ellis, Stephen.
Title: External Mission. The Anc in Exile 1960-1990.
Description: Jonathan Ball. Johannesburg 2012 1st edition thus. 384pp illustrated large format paperback. No inscription. edges tanned hence VG+ condition. ISBN: 9781868425303 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) 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. Author 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.

Keywords: politics anc south southern africa african apartheid


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