April 2020I tell this story now in the knowledge – sound, I'm sure – that the telling is too late. Too late to go back. Too late to tell it again, differently ... I tell this story now because I was there. Because I am safe now – relatively, anyway – and once more in drizzling London, an obscure survivor.Although conceived and birthed well before the ANC's December 2017 elective conference and the changes of the guard that ensued, The List imagines a 'New Dawn' for South Africa in the closing years of the 2010s. But is it dawn or dusk?Rumours have abounded since the early days of South African democracy, of a list given to Nelson Mandela by apartheid securocrats of their agents infiltrated into the upper echelons of the ANC during the struggle years.The List tells the story of a group of veterans of MK, of ANC intelligence and of the post-apartheid intelligence service, who are formed into a secret task team by the newly elected president to investigate the possibility of such remnants of apartheid security threatening to obstruct the radical changes that he and his team are planning.The story follows these veterans and their nemeses through the struggle years, exile, the MK camps and into the years of democracy and hope, disillusion and hope again. It observes while the struggle veterans painstakingly attempt to pick through the detritus of the old regime in the new, but just as the moment of optimism begins to blossom, the task team uncovers a ghastly betrayal. Is it too late to save the president and the country?

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Barry Gilder

Jacana Education

South Africa, South Africa

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Although conceived and birthed well before the ANC's December 2017 elective conference and the changes of the political and governance guards that ensued, The List imagines a 'New Dawn' for South Africa in the closing years of the second decade of the 21st Century. Rumours have abounded since the early days of South African democracy of a list or lists given to Nelson Mandela and the TRC by old apartheid securocrats of their agents infiltrated into the upper echelons of the ANC during the struggle years. These rumours gained new currency with the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in April 2018 and the revelations of the machinations of apartheid's Stratcom securocrats. The List tells the story of a group of veterans of MK, of ANC intelligence and of the post-apartheid intelligence service, who are formed into a highly secret task team by the newly elected president to investigate the possibility of such remnants of apartheid security threatening to obstruct the radical changes the new president and his team are planning. The List follows these veterans and their nemeses through the struggle years, exile, the MK camps and into the years of democracy and hope, disillusion and hope again. It observes while the struggle veterans painstakingly attempt to pick through the detritus of the old regime in the new, but just as the moment of optimism begins to blossom, the task team uncovers a ghastly betrayal. Is it too late to save the president and the country? The novel is narrated from the future by one of the veterans of the task team from his second exile in a bedsit in London

Rumors have abounded since the early days of South African democracy of a list given to Nelson Mandela by apartheid securocrats of their agents infiltrated into the upper echelons of the ANC. The List tells the story of a group of veterans of the intelligence services who are formed into a secret task team by the newly elected president to investigate the possibility. But just as the moment of optimism begins to blossom, the task team uncovers a ghastly betrayal. Is it too late to save the president and the country?

2019-06-12