The day I was asked to shop my comrades for high treason
03 April 2016 - 02:00
The words echoed in my head: "You are guilty of high treason and the penalty is death." I froze. Terrified. It was September 1966; I was 24 years old. I was in Kongwa, an ANC camp in Tanzania.And I was going to die.The man who spoke those words was Joe Modise, a senior representative of the ANC, a movement which, we were often told, should be regarded as our mother and father.
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