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The letter bomb was received in our family home in June 1972, and it was powerful enough, I was told, by the police, the London police who took it away and made it safe, to blow up not just me, but my whole family, my parents, and the whole of the house.

But those kind of letter bombs at that stage were used by the apartheid security forces to target people Activist leaders like you know, Ruth first was killed Lane see prominent ANC leader in Maputo the the student leader Abraham Tiro I think it was was killed in Botswana by that sort of letter bomb.

Fortunately, there was a fault in my case in the trigger mechanism and it didn't go off and But yes, what triggered that, if I could use that phrase, is I concentrated on sport because I was a young, brought up a young sports man, white South African.

I knew how important it was to white South Africans to be able to have their cricket teams go to Lourdes, their rugby teams go to Twickenham, be feted and welcomed and given lavish hospitality, when apartheid was sort of frowned upon.

So I quite know the character.

Yes.

And the veteran, who's the sort of mentor of the young activist, Tandi, who's the principal sort of, Activist in the story the men the men her mentor is an older guy called the veteran that I don't refer to him by name But he is somebody I know as well based on somebody I know so his backstory is is you know if I suppose I'm writing some of it about based on people that I know, South Africans in the main.

So let me actually stay with that, because you've met a lot of prominent South Africans who were struggle era heroes.

Wer

ist das? Jane Goodall ist eine Aktivistin für die Umwelt, für Tierschutz.

Aber sie lebt noch?

Ne, sie lebt nicht mehr.