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SUMMARY:SONGS AND SECRETS South Africa from Liberation to Governance - Bar
 ry Gilder
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:Barry Gilder will speak about his book: SONGS AND SECRETS Sout
 h Africa from Liberation to Governance\n\nCompelling political memoir by A
 NC insider who trained as a spy in Moscow and the guerrilla training camps
  of Angola\n\nGilder is the former Deputy Head of the South African \nSecr
 et Service\n\nA decade into its hard-won democracy\, South Africa and its 
 ruling party\, the ANC\, have been through turbulent times: confrontation 
 between Thabo Mbeki and his then deputy Jacob Zuma\; the dismissal of Zuma
  as Deputy\; Zuma’s defeat of Mbeki in ANC presidential elections\; and 
 the recall of Mbeki as South African President\, are events that have left
  many ANC cadres politically and emotionally aghast. Were these events the
  result of personal enmity? Was the broad church that the ANC had become t
 o unite all forces in the struggle against apartheid beginning to break up
 ? Or did the roots lie in the global dynamic that allowed South Africa its
  freedom as the Cold War cooled?\n\nWritten in an anecdotal style\, and wi
 th a cinematic quality\, Songs and Secrets explores these questions throug
 h the viewfinder of a former high-ranking member of the ANC’s secret int
 elligence wing. It follows Gilder into the ANC’s military camps in Angol
 a\; to Moscow for spycraft training\; to the underground in Botswana\; and
  into leadership positions in the administration of the new government.\n\
 nGilder’s frank\, compelling memoir explores the personal\, political\, 
 psychological and historical realities that gave birth to the new South Af
 rica\, in particular the oft-ignored conditions in which the ANC governmen
 t tried to turn apartheid around.\n\nBARRY GILDER was born in South Africa
  in 1950. He went into exile in 1976\, and during this time composed and s
 ang struggle songs at anti-apartheid events in Europe and elsewhere. He al
 so served in the ANC’s intelligence structures until his return to South
  Africa in 1991\; he later became Deputy Head of the South African Secret 
 Service. He is currently Director of Operations at the Mapungubwe Institut
 e for Strategic Reflection\, a policy think tank set up by former senior l
 eaders in the democratic government. \n
LOCATION:Seminar Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambrid
 ge CB3 9DT
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