At a time when the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) is divided into two groups, those who are preaching and pushing for Radical Economic Transformation (RET) and those who are seen to be against that push and who have been labeled White Monopoly Capital (WMC) agents.
The fight between the two groups has created a debate among the party members, about who are the real ANC members and who are agents of WMC in the party.
The List looks at the rumoured list of apartheid spies that was given to former president Nelson Mandela by apartheid leaders after the fall of one of the greatest crime against humanity .
This book in this way add to the current debate in the ANC about certain individuals in the party, who are handlers and spies of ‘old order’ and ‘regime change’ agents, who want to be in charge of the party and automatically the government.
Barry Gilder, the author of the book, in his descriptive style of writing, uses fictional characters in detailing how the rumoured spies were first planted into the ANC by apartheid security police and National Intelligence Service (NIS) convert collection directorate officials led by Otto Bester
When President Moloi realises that there are still people in the ANC and also in government, who want to sabotage and remove him from his position.
He asked his Intelligence minister Sandile Ndaba to run a secret investigation. Minister Ndaba obliged and asked his former MK comrade and intelligence/spy veteran Vladimir Masilela to set up a task team to investigate the ‘old order agents’ and their spies in the ‘new order’.
Not to give it away, however, after reading this book one will be left a bit sad with how Masilela and minister Ndaba, despite having discovered the truth, ended up not having an opportunity to expose the culprits. Is the country going to be led by ‘captured’ individuals or not?
While the book is a ‘fiction’ as the author wants us to believe, one wonders if Gilder, a former senior government official and an ANC MK veteran himself, is already pre-empting what will happen to the ANC post 2019 national elections.
Gilder in this book is forcing us to ask ourselves these questions, are we going to see a state president being killed in the near future and is the country going to be led by a president who is in the pockets of ‘old order’ and ‘regime change’ agents?
This book is a must-read, as depicts what many are already seeing happening in the ANC.
Reports of certain group within the party wanting to remove the current ANC and state president Cyril Ramaphosa out of office continues to appear now and then.
I will give this book an 8/10 rating, it’s relevant.
It’s descriptive style, the past/ future story telling format Gilder used, is exactly what the doctor ordered.
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