“This important book seeks to uncover one of the key secrets of the last decades of the apartheid era, how the National Party government sought to defeat the international arms embargo. It serves as a timely reminder that the founding values of our new Constitution, that government must be accountable, responsive and open, were a rejection of the clandestine and authoritarian apartheid government, and are key to building a democracy that serves the people.”

~ Justice Kate O’Regan, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and current Director of the Bonavero Institution of Human Rights, Oxford University