White Lies: Canon Collins and the Secret War Against Apartheid"Behind the clerical dog collar he wore as Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, John Collins ran a single-minded, constantly creative, campaign over several decades to provide material support to those waging the struggle against apartheid - assisting leaders like Nelson Mandela and thousands of township and rural activists, as well as families who suffered because their loved ones were in prison, in exile or dead. The success of the organisations he founded, the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) and Christian Action, depended on a network of volunteers across the world and a small group of South African exiles and British workers in London. South African intelligence agents tried to penetrate these networks but to no avail."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Churchills dupe | 1 |
Acts of defiance | 17 |
High treason | 27 |
Sharpeville | 40 |
Fire the Canon | 52 |
The odd bodies of Amen Court | 61 |
Armed struggle and Rivonia | 71 |
the ANC and the Eastern Cape | 85 |
An old man in a hurry | 189 |
Craig Williamson and the IUEF | 206 |
Around the world | 231 |
Letters from elsewhere | 236 |
Kith and kin | 250 |
Death of the Canon | 272 |
Passionist postbag | 285 |
Total onslaught | 299 |
Enuga Reddy and the UN Trust Fund | 98 |
The Swedes | 109 |
the banning of Defence and | 119 |
Cutouts and noble Lords | 133 |
The white lie | 145 |
The Imam and the Dean | 156 |
Welfare Le Carré style | 168 |
Stephanus and Eileen | 179 |
Close down | 318 |
Where are they now? | 331 |
Endnotes | 337 |
347 | |
List of letter writers | 357 |
365 | |
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