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Kasrils says MK recruits were taught to fight apartheid, not white people [SOUND]

# Umkhonto we Sizwe founding member and former Intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils has told the Khampepe Commission that young recruits arriving at training camps in the 1970s and 1980s wanted to kill white South Africans, driven by anger at apartheid. Kasrils says recruits were taught that the struggle was against the apartheid system, not race based. He said that the training emphasised the Freedom Charter and the ANC’s non-racial principles:

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