Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle 1st Edition

by Jacob Dlamini (Author)

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'Comrade September', a member of the ANC and its military wing, MK, was abducted from his hideout in Swaziland by South African security forces in August 1986 and taken across the border to South Africa, where he was interrogated and tortured. It was not long before September began telling his captors about his comrades in the ANC. By talking under torture, September underwent changes that marked him for the rest of his life: from resister to collaborator, insurgent to counter-insurgent, revolutionary to counter-revolutionary and, to his former comrades, hero to traitor.

Askari is about these changes and about the larger, neglected history of betrayal and collaboration in the struggle against apartheid. It seeks to understand why men and women like September made the choices they did - collaborating
with his captors, turning against the ANC, and then hunting down their comrades. It seeks rather to offer a history of the
the grey zones in which South Africans - combatants and non-combatants - lived, rather than the black-and-white bifurcation that still dominates South Africa's politics and society.

As the book demonstrates, September's acts of betrayal form but one layer in a sedimentation of betrayals in which he was betrayed by the Swazi police and may have been sold out to the Swazis and the South African security police by his own comrades in the ANC.

This, then, is not a morality tale in which the lines between heroes and villains are clearly drawn. The book does not claim that the competing sides in the fight against apartheid were moral equivalents. It seeks to contribute to scholarly attempts to elaborate a denser, richer and more nuanced account of South Africa's modern political history. It does so by examining the history of political violence in South Africa; by looking at the workings of an apartheid death squad in an attempt to understand how the apartheid bureaucracy worked; and, more importantly, by studying the social, moral and political universe in which apartheid collaborators like September lived and worked.

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'Askari is one of the most important, probing and virtuosic works of non-fiction published in South Africa this decade. In ambition he is rivalled by only a handful of writers; in doggedness and audacity, even fewer.'--Nick Mulgrew, the Sunday Times (South Africa)

About the Author

Jacob Dlamini is one of South Africa's leading young intellectuals. He was recently awarded a PhD from Yale University. He is now attached to the University of Barcelona. Previously he worked as a journalist and was at one time the political editor of Business Day. His book Native Nostalgia (Jacana, 2009), about growing up in the township of Katlehong on the Witwatersrand, has won great acclaim.

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (October 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0190277386
ISBN-13: 978-0190277383
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.9 x 5.5 inches
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Average Customer Review: 8 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,191,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #253 in Books > History > Africa > Southern Africa
- #576 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > History > Africa
- #779 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > Africa

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Boerseun

Those were sad and crazy times and we were all playmates for ...

May 3, 2015

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Jacon, well written, well researched. One important area as a former person in the know was that the entire ANC was virtually compromised and where you state in the book that the ANC in power today is so tarnished that they have lost sight of what they wanted to achieve is very true. In fact that were instances where we signalled ANC Lusaka and actually corrected some of their instructions for them - simply so we did not have to change many of or plans!

Those were sad and crazy times and we were all playmates for the Apartheid Regime and unbeknown to us and the ANC we BOTH ended off with a corrupt regime of excess.

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Janet Cherry

Sensitive and readable treatment of a nasty topic

August 10, 2016

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Insightful and smoothly written, intriguing study of those who 'turned' against the liberation movement and collaborated with the apartheid security forces. I thought the author treated this very delicate subject with great sensitivity. Given the extremely nasty subject matter, this book is also surprisingly easy reading. No easy answers are forthcoming, though....

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Funani Mojono

An insightful read......

January 2, 2015

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I liked the book because it took a different angle into our history. It left questions about the entire police force, particularly blacks as they were meant to protect the law. Which law? Did they believe in apartheid?

Also what springs to mind is what role are Askaris and the black policemen in apartheid South Africa who are in the force play...... Are they the guys protecting shoddy characters today?

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March 14, 2016

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The book is a bit long but well worth reading. I, however, do understand the logic behind the thorough juxtaposition of the situation in RSA and similar occurrences around the world.

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December 4, 2015

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It's an okay book relating to our history but not a wow. It's also creating doubt in my mind (rightfully so) if the collaboration stories have been dealt sufficiently.

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September 25, 2015

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A brilliant read!!

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April 9, 2015

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A wonderful charting of an aspect of our minor history

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February 28, 2015

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