Hinterland: A Documentary
A new documentary by 18-year-old student film maker Ruby Parker-Harbord, about Jo Lewis and Mike Harris, who smuggled large quantities of weapons into South Africa.
A new documentary by 18-year-old student film maker Ruby Parker-Harbord, about Jo Lewis and Mike Harris, who smuggled large quantities of weapons into South Africa.
On Saturday 30 June 2012, Recruits Sean Hosey and Steve Marsling were interviewed, live, on BBC Radio 4's programme Saturday Live. Sean does a separate interview after the news interval, in which he reveals information about his treatment in prison that he did not reveal in his chapter of the book. Steve and Sean were both members of the Young Communist League. YCL London District Secretary Bob Allen recruited Steve, who in turn recruited Sean. On his second mission, in 1972, Sean was arrested in Durban, tortured, kept in solitary confinement, and jailed for five years under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act. In this interview, he gives a very moving account of his experiences.
During his visit to London in July 2012 for the official launch of the book and other events, Ronnie Kasrils took some of the Recruits on a guided walk through the parts of central London where he had taken many of them from 1967 onwards. In this video, he reveals some of the tricks he used to ensure that they could not afterwards remember where he had taken them.
Read account by Mike Pentelow Ronnie Kasrils tour of London