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Fergal Keane uncovers the roots of modern terrorism

Terror Through Time: Africa Erupts

Africa Erupts

25/10/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Terror Through Time, Africa Erupts

Fergal Keane considers the dilemma the ANC faced over the use of terrorist tactics.

Fergal Keane charts the development of modern terrorism. He considers the dilemma that Nelson Mandela and the ANC faced over the use of terrorist tactics.

Terrorist tactics had pushed the French from Algeria. Could they also be successfully used against South Africa's apartheid regime? Fergal Keane considers the dilemma faced by Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress, an organisation founded on the principals of non-violent protest.

With Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in prison alongside Nelson Mandela for his role in the ANC's struggle and Gillian Slovo, whose father, Joe Slovo was a leader of the ANC's armed wing. Her mother, the anti-apartheid campaigner, Ruth First, was killed by a letter bomb authorised by the South African police in 1982.

Fergal Keane visits Liliesleaf Farm near Johannesberg, the scene of the arrest of the leadership of the ANC's military wing in 1963, as they prepared to put their plans for a wider armed struggle against apartheid into action.

Producer: Isobel Eaton.

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