JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Mar 05 2010, Mail & Guardian
Official versions of the ANC's history in exile are challenged by Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and Swapo by Paul Trewhela (Jacana Media). This is an edited extract.
In April 1990 a group of eight former members of Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) returned to South Africa a few weeks after Jacob Zuma, but under very different conditions.
While Zuma was smuggled into South Africa in secret by the government (with Penuell Maduna, head of the ANC's legal department) to prepare for negotiations with President FW de Klerk, the eight had fled from the ANC in Tanzania following six traumatic years after mutinies of ANC troops in Angola in February and May 1984.
