Ronnie Kasrils in Angola, 1986, with fellow MK officers, Jabulani Jali (left) and Lulamile Dantile (right), who was assassinated in Lesotho later that year (Photo: Armed & Dangerous, Jacana Media, 2013)

Author’s collection: Russian Makarov pistol with 9mm cartridges; Mozambican and Angolan identity documents; MK Luthuli Detachment Medal (Photo: David Nidree)

Ronnie Kasrils with Jacob Zuma, London, 1988 (Photo: Eleanor Kasrils, author’s collection)

Joe Slovo, Ronnie Kasrils and Jacob Zuma, ANC NEC meeting, 1993 (Photo: Nigel Dennis)

Trevor Manuel, Jacob Zuma and Ronnie Kasrils, ANC NEC meeting, Hela Safari Ranch, Gauteng, 1992 (Photo: Khulu Mbatha Trust)

Author, appearing from the ‘underground’, being introduced at SACP Mass Rally, FNB Stadium, Soweto, July 1990 (Photo: Robert M Botha, Business Day)

From left: Minister of Defence Joe Modise, Linda Mti, Walile Nhlapo, Billy Masetlha, Abba Omar, Barry Gilder, Jackie Selebi and Deputy Minister of Defence Ronnie Kasrils, at the Umkhonto weSizwe medal awards, Defence ministry, Pretoria, 1996 (Photo: Ministry of Defence and author’s collection)

Deputy Minister of Defence Ronnie Kasrils, with Minister of Defence Joe Modise, and Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel (foreground), during the defence budget debate, Parliament, Cape Town, 1998 (Photo: SA Parliament)

From left: Ronnie Kasrils, Thandi Modise, Fidel Castro, Blade Nzimande and Ahmed Kathrada, Robben Island, 1998 (Photo: Eleanor Kasrils, author’s collection)

Deputy President Jacob Zuma, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Ronnie Kasrils and Premier of KwaZulu-Natal S’bu Ndebele, at the renaming of the Chelmsford Dam after Zulu general Ntshingwayo, KwaZulu Natal, 2000.

From left: Ronnie Kasrils, Joe Modise, President Nelson Mandela, Admiral R. Simpson-Anderson, on board The Protea for a South African Naval Review, Table Bay, Cape Town, 1998 (Photo: Eleanor Kasrils, author’s collection)

Thabo Mbeki and Ronnie Kasrils salute the ANCs 1999 election victory, which led to Mbeki becoming the country’s president (Photo: AP/Peter de Jong)

President Thabo Mbeki presents veteran Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin the Intelligence Services Woman of the Year Award, Intelligence Services Day, Pretoria, November 2005, while Kasrils looks on (Photo: Department of Intelligence Services and author’s collection)

Kasrils laying wreath at the Wall of Remembrance, Intelligence Services Day, Pretoria, November 2005 (Photo: Department of Intelligence Services and author’s collection)

Muzi Kunene (Photo: Sunday Argus, 31 May 2009)

Author with President Mbeki planting a tree, Garden of Rememberance, Intelligence Services Day, Pretoria, November 2005 (author’s collection)

Author with President Mbeki, Intelligence Services Day, Pretoria, November 2005 (author’s collection)

Mbeki peruses the Book of Rememberance, Intelligence Services Day, Pretoria, November 2005 (author’s collection)

Kasrils receiving an award from President Zuma during MK Military Veterans Medal Parade, Airforce Base, Bloemfontein, August 2013 (Photo: GCIS)

Denis Goldberg, MK veteran and Rivonia Trialist, with Kasrils at the Umkhonto weSizwe medal awards, Bloemfontein, August 2013 (Photo: Amina Frense, author’s collection)

Kasrils addressing a Right2Know protest rally, outside Parliament, against the Protection of State Information Bill, 2012 (Photo: Amina Frense, author’s collection)

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge with Kasrils at the launch of Sidikiwe! Vukani! National election campaign, Witwatersrand university, Johannesburg, April 2014 (Photo: Gallo Images)

From left: Former President Kgalema Motlanthe, Ronnie Kasrils and Aziz Pahad, at a exhibition, Liliesleaf Museum, Rivonia (Photo: Sunday Times, 8 March 2015)

Dali Mpofu, EFF chairman and Kasrils’s advocate, at the People’s Assembly, University of Johannesburg, Soweto campus, April 2016 (Photo: Sunday Independent, 17 April 2016)

Retired Constitutional Court Judge Zak Yacoob (right) speaking at a civil society protest gathering on the steps of the Constitutional Court, Johannesburg, calling for the removal from office of the state president, Jacob Zuma, April 2016. From left seated in red jacket: Zwelinzima Vavi, Bishop Jo Seoka, Mvuso Msimang and Ronnie Kasrils (Photo: Daily Maverick, 6 April 2016)

The unprecedented Sunday Times street poster, 29 March 2015, apologising to Kasrils as result of the Press Council’s findings in his 2014 complaint against the newspaper.

Ronnie Kasrils and Amina Frense at the launch of Redi Tlhabi’s book Khwezi about Fezekile Kuzwayo at Exclusive Books, Hyde Park, Johannesburg, September 2017 (Photo: Madelene Cronje)

Deputy Minister of Defence Ronnie Kasrils and Eleanor Kasrils (1936–2009) at a ministry function, 1998 (Photo: Department of Defence and author’s collection)

Fezekile Kuzwayo and Zora, daughter of Marc Wegerif and Theresa Yates, Lushoto Mountains, Tanzania, 2012 (Photo: Marc Wegerif)

Fezekile Kuzwayo and her mother Beauty Kuzwayo, Durban, 2016 (Photo: Theresa Yates)

Fezekile Kuzwayo with Zora, at a friend’s birthday, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2012 (Photo: Marc Wegerif)

Ronnie Kasrils’s notes considering the mystery of the fake emails, 2005