Meet the Apartheid Fighter Almost Betrayed by Nelson Mandela | JHS Ep. 760

Bradley Steyn is an expert on risk mitigation, operational support, and racial injustice. He is the co-author of Undercover with Mandela’s Spies: The Story of the Boy Who Crossed the Square, a memoir of his time as a double agent working for Nelson Mandela during the dying days of South African Apartheid.

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What We Discuss with Bradley:
0:00 - Bradley punched Jordan in the face
1:19 - Growing up in apartheid South Africa
10:34 - Stuck in the middle of a massacre
18:28 - Dealing with PTSD
26:33 - Russian alliance with Nelson Mandela
31:56 - Becoming a bouncer & recruited as an undercover agent
42:4 - Spiking toothpaste with LSD, breaking and entering, planting fake grenades
54:27 - Getting involved with Nelson Mandela
1:20:21 - Placing humanity first (reforming South Africa)
1:26:41 - Mandela was ready to throw Bradley under the bus
1:37:24 - Almost getting shot when escaping
1:39:49 - Bradley' on BLM in America

From the introduction to Undercover with Mandela’s Spies: The Story of the Boy Who Crossed the Square by Bradley Steyn and Mark Fine:

“1988 South Africa teeters on the edge of a state of emergency. Almost exactly 40 years ago, 17-year-old Bradley Steyn crosses Pretoria’s Strydom Square and walks straight into a massacre. Barend Strydom, the notorious white supremacist ‘Wit Wolf’ is mowing down black bystanders relaxing in the square during their lunch break. Bradley cradles a dying man in his arms, and, later, with reports of eight dead and 16 seriously injured, he is brought face to face with the insanity of the nation. Suffering from acute PTSD, unable to cope with day-to-day life, and consumed by rage, Bradley spirals out of control.

“His parents unwittingly initiate the next chapter in the story of the boy who crossed the square when they arrange for him to join the SA Navy. Here, angry and unable to work through his trauma, he is called upon by the Apartheid regime’s Security Branch to “confront the threat of Communism” and the navy serviceman joins the dreaded D-Section as a classified government enforcer.

“But on the political stage events are changing fast: F.W. de Klerk becomes President, the ANC is legalized, and Nelson Mandela walks to freedom. However, undermining this progress, a sinister Third Force has formed an alliance between the deep state military-intelligence complex, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists. With these forces edging the nation toward a bloody race war, President F.W. de Klerk is forced to make a deal with Nelson Mandela.

“And with this deal, the underground Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS) of the African National Congress (MK) recruits Bradley and Neil De Beer to infiltrate the Third Force network before all hope for a free future is destroyed. Bradley Steyn goes undercover to help unravel the extremists’ master plan — but will his time run out before they discover he is working for Mandela’s spies?”

In this two-part episode, Bradley Steyn joins us to discuss what it was like being on the front lines of this secret dirty war between the ANC and the government of the day, how he’s still coping with PTSD in the aftermath of the massacre he survived only because of the color of his skin, what he’s been up to in the meantime, and why he’s moving back to South Africa after years of living in the United States.

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