A spy who helped to end apartheid

theguardian.com

71 points·georgecmu··68 comments

An interview with her husband, Peter Dobson who was a "computer analyst" at the time in Joburg: https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/sedec8... (pg. 21)

(this is an ANC publication from 1989)

It deals with American and Japanese tacit support of the regime (despite US sanctions on "computer technology" being sold to the ZA government) and the types of (IBM) systems running at the time.

Cool magazine, are there more issues there?

It would appear the filename format is "se{three letter month code}{two digit year}.pdf" so there are indeed other issues:

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/sejan9... for instance.

Publication appears to have been monthly.

Thanks

You can also try finding more through the Collections site on the university website.

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/Collection

If you're ever in Johannesburg, please set aside time to visit the Apartheid museum. It's a very moving experience, not least because it's so recent...

Trained by USSR as part of their foreign policy of helping independence movements around the world.

While cynically suppressing all the sibirian natives and ethnic groups themselves (crim tartars, jews etc.).

Some people on the left part of the totalitarian spectrum, just project a utopia on some remote dystopia place and then go for it like that skycastle is real.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com