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The Unlikely Secret Agent

The Unlikely Secret Agent

Ronnie Kasrils (Author); Eleanor Kasrils (About)

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Publisher: Monthly Review
Format: Book
Binding: pb
Pages: 183
Released: May 1, 2012
ISBN-13: 9781583672778

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The Unlikely Secret Agent tells the remarkable story of a young woman’s courage in apartheid-ridden South Africa. As the book opens, in 1963, South Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. On August 15, the dreaded security police swoop down on Griggs Bookstore—Durban’s finest literary haunt and a place where African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party comrades frequented to receive or deliver messages and money to advance the cause of the struggle—to arrest Eleanor Kasrils, the manager’s daughter. The police threaten to "break her or hang her" if she does not lead them to her lover, "Red" Ronnie Kasrils, who is wanted on suspicion of sabotage for setting off explosions and toppling electricity poles. Though she comes under intense pressure during interrogation, Eleanor has her own secret to conceal: she, like Ronnie, has been acting as a clandestine agent for the underground ANC, utilizing the books as a means to deliver documents…