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At this stage Derek Hanekom (A minister in the Mandela and now a minister again in the current ZUMA government), Patrick Fitzgerald and Marius Schoon (whose wife and daughter was killed in an assassination attempt on Schoon by Craig Williamson via a letter bomb in Angola) had great success in recruiting new members to the ANC via their base in Botswana.

But the open way they did it also presented risks, Including the recruitment of spies.

Gavin went on the study trip to Zimbabwe where the more circumspect Pete Roussos recruited him into the ANC. Zimbabwe was a strange place to be because the ANC at the time was aligned to Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU (also backed by the USSR) while Mugabe’s ZANU was (backed by CHINA) was in the same camp as the PAC.

Related deployments:

1. A beer with Gavin Evans (part 9 – Spies and lies)
2. A beer with Gavin Evans (part 8 Carl Niehaus & assault)
3. A beer with Gavin Evans
4. A beer with Gavin Evans – (part 5 – back to Zimbabwe)
5. A beer with Gavin Evans (part 1 – politicisation)