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London UK 28th April 2018. Pictures of Winnie Mandela are projected on to the windows at South Africa house following her death
(Photo Credit: amer ghazzal/Alamy Stock Photo).
imprisoned, tortured, and separated research, as historian Jacob Dlamini struggle, that historians continue
from her family. The revolution—and shows in his 2015 Askari: A Story of to struggle to understand, using the
especially the security police’s exten- Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti- tools of social history.
sive counterrevolution—also made her Apartheid Struggle. But the presence
paranoid. After the Soweto protests of informers led accusations and coun-
in 1976, the South African police and ter-accusations of spying to proliferate,
military infiltrated the liberation move- with Madikizela-Mandela stalwart
ment with a network of spies. Often in her calls for ANC loyalists to root
these spies were former revolutionaries, out spies.
“turned” through torture. Others had At the end of our discussions about
their own political or personal reasons Madikizela-Mandela, it is impossible
for informing on activists, including for students to see the anti-apartheid
police paychecks. The spy program movement as a straightforward story
was not publicly known until the TRC of heroism. It looks more like an Meghan Healy-Clancy is Assistant Professor
and subsequent investigations—and in epic of complexity—a very human in the Department of History.
fact it remains a challenging subject to

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