As thousands of mourners line up to pay their last respects to Nelson
Mandela, we go to Johannesburg to speak with longtime anti-apartheid
activist Ronnie Kasrils. A founder of the armed wing of the African
National Congress, Kasrils worked closely with Mandela after first
meeting him in 1962. Kasrils was a leading anti-apartheid underground
activist, and on the National Executive Committee of the African
National Congress from 1987 to 2007. He was also and a member of the
central committee of the South African Communist party from December
1986 to 2007. Kasrils served as minister for intelligence in
post-apartheid South Africa from 2004 to 2008. His late wife, Eleanor,
was a Scottish South African anti-apartheid activist, whose story he
recalled in his 2011 book, "The Unlikely Secret Agent." His
autobiography is "Armed and Dangerous: My Undercover Struggle Against
Apartheid."
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