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The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

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The Story of a Woman Who Was Surveillanced

She fled from the office and asked for help from the Russian delegation there. The ANC were allied with the Soviet Union, but officials she met that day were not willing to help. She went to the airport, but there were no flights. Her nearest potentially friendly country was Botswana, but that was an off-road drive through the desert. So her only option,. the only way for her to get to Botswana was through South Africa. Obviously, this was risky. Security services had a much more serious presence down there. But I would be taking a route that nobody anticipated, so I would be doing what no one thought I would bedoing. And it was several hours before they realized

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