Hacking South African Apartheid | Activist History

During the apartheid era in South Africa, the ban imposed on the African National Congress (ANC) party meant that anti-apartheid activists were under constant surveillance, and were frequently forced into exile, arrested, jailed, tortured, or even killed. Until the early 1980s, the ANC had a very limited communication network that relied mostly on couriers smuggling in banned books, passing out pamphlets, and their radio network Radio Freedom.