Prisoner of Mandela: How I was "captured" By His Movement
07/18/2012
The only American we know of among the Recruits was Danny Schechter from the Bronx, who went to study at the London School of Economics after being active in the US civil rights movement. At the LSE, Ronnie Kasrils recruited him to go to Durban on the very first action of the London Recruits, in the summer of 1967. Danny wrote this article for the Huffington Post in 2012.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-schechter/prisoner-of-mandela-how-i_b_1675602.html
Cape Town, South Africa: Nelson Mandela was released from prison 22 years ago. He has been "free" ever since. At the same time, I sometimes feel as if I became his prisoner--imprisoned by the work I have been doing enthusiastically in service to the struggle he led ever since the mid 1960's.
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