London Recruits | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid during the 1960s. | dG1fRThmUGVSTFFsYzg

Transcript

00:30he wanted me to do some work for him and he said we're sending you off you will be involved

00:38in secret work from London. Oliver Tambo hit on this idea of looking for white young people

00:49who could go secretly as tourists to carry out the missions.

01:00It was my first time on a plane. I'd just finished my apprenticeship. I'd worked in the rag trade.

01:12In the false bottom suitcases there were explosives and there were these subversive leaflets.

01:21If you get caught you're in deep trouble.

01:23They're going to drag you off and you'll be interrogated by the South African Gestapo.

01:31Going through those customs was terrifying.

01:36You're thinking well I better not get caught then. You know that's what you're thinking isn't it.

01:40We set all the timing devices so that by the time we left to go and start planting

01:55everything was ticking. Tick tick tick tick tick.

02:10I saw it just happened just happened. The ANC is around somewhere we don't know where but somewhere.