Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground – Billy Keniston

An in-depth study of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon at the hands of apartheid spy Craig Williamson explores how the lives of a group of white radicals intersected with and were impacted by the undercover security police and their operations both within and outside of South Africa. On 28 June 1984, a parcel bomb sent by the apartheid security police exploded in an apartment building in Lubango, Angola, killing 36-year-old Jeanette Schoon and her six-year-old daughter Katryn. The Schoons were members of the revolutionary underground, exiled from South Africa, and committed to both the African National Congress and socialism. What many political activists had feared or suspected at the time was confirmed during the 1990s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the bomb targeting the Schoons was sent by Craig Williamson, an apartheid spy and high-ranking member of the South African security service. →