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This collection of 20 oral history interviews with military intelligence operatives active during the apartheid era in South Africa was conducted, transcribed, and translated by long-time investigative journalist and author, De Wet Potgieter, on behalf of SAHA during 2009 and 2010. A selection of South African news photographer Doug Lee's images complements these interviews. The photographs portray some of the individuals, events, and activities recounted and documented in the narratives.
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South African Defence Force
Together with the police, the regime deployed the South African Defence Force (SADF) to suppress opposition to apartheid. The South African Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) was a hit-squad that operated under the authority of the Defence Minister...
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Storm troopers of the Afrikaners Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) (1993)
This colour image of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) storm troopers is one of a series of photographs taken by photographer Doug Lee at an AWB rally in Klerksdorp, South Africa.