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After Gavin Evan’s close escape he gets call ups. His low profile ended. Their ANC unit was broken up, and he worked individually from Harare, where he visited Brett Myrdal, and smuggled stuff back to SA. Gavin deals with the question of whether the ECC was an ANC organisation.
This was also the time of [...]

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Gavin Evans tells more about the launch of the ECC and it’s predecessor COSG. He talks about the tension between the Christian pacifist objectors and the young student radicals. He also talks about spy Rob Whitecross and the arrest of Carl Niehaus for plotting to blow up the Johannesburg gas works, and his own short [...]

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The battle against conscription to the SADF hots up, Gavin himself is sent to Johannesburg to campaign against conscription to the SADF there. This was because the ANC thought the pamphlet and other incidents in Cape Town (part 6) might expose him.
Gavin Evans and Janet Cherry were in the same underground ANC unit
Photo Gavin Evans.

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The plot thickens. Chris Hani and Joe Jelle were opposed to NUSAS & Thabo Mbeki’s policy of strategic participation. Back in South Africa, Gavin and his new unit consisting of Richard Goode, and Janet Cherry had to communicate the ANC position that military service was not acceptable.
This was against the established position of NUSAS [...]

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Gavin had some misgivings over ANC policy with respect to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Poland, and because of this he was not immediately recruited into the South African Communist Party (SACP).

Gavin had instant training in sending reports and worked alone for a year. He dying to tell people that he was part of [...]

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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 [...]

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In part 2 Gavin speaks about his arrival at UCT, in the late 70’s. He touches on the spirit of 1968, the hippies, the music scene. He also talks about forced removals in Crossroads.

He talks about the rebuilding of community movements after the 1976 uprising had been crushed. He talks about his involvement in [...]

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