Barry Gilder Lunch Talk
Barry Gilder Lunch Talk
Barry Gilder will lead a lunchtime talk for faculty and graduate students titled "Soldier Against Aparthed." Introductory remarks by Professor Paul Landau.
To reserve lunch, rsvp to millercenter@umd.edu.
Barry Gilder was a soldier against Apartheid, serving in the African National Congress's military, Umkhonto weSizwe or "MK" (Spear of the Nation) during the ANC's long exile from South Africa. Within MK in the 1970s Mr. Guilder entered the world of spycraft and served as a key intelligence official thereafter inside the ANC. Mr. Gilder subsequently served as General Manager and then Deputy Director-General of the South African Secret Service, in Nelson Mandela's first, post-Apartheid elected government (1995-1999), then as Deputy Director-General of Operations in the National Intelligence Agency, and then in other top intelligence positions, from 2000 until his retirement from government service at the end of 2007. Mr. Gilder is currently a fellow for the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection in South Africa.
In his new memoir, Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2012), Mr. Gilder recounts his experiences as student songwriter and activist, guerilla insurgent, trainee spy in Moscow, and government official in South Africa.
A few copies of his book will be available for purchase.
Related links:
Amazon, Goodreads, and Facebook sites for his book.
Weekend Live’s Samm Marshall interviews Mr. Gilder
Polity’s Motshabi Hoaeane interviews Mr. Gilder
Book review by Shaun de Waal (Mail & Guardian)
Book review by Rebecca Meeson-Frizelle (The South African)
US distributor's website (Oxford University Press)