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Operation Vula

on BBC Radio 4 FM

In the 1980s, two men in a London flat devised a secret communication system linking the banned ANC in Lusaka, Zambia, with underground terrorists in South Africa. Their task was twofold: to smuggle ANC military leaders and vast amounts of weapons and explosives into South Africa for a violent and bloody revolution - and to make secret contact with Nelson Mandela in his prison cell.
Nigel Wrench presents the history of this operation.

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Presenter:
Nigel Wrench
Producer:
David Price

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