Liliesleaf

This guide to Liliesleaf in Johannesburg centers on the eleventh of July, nineteen sixty-three, when police reached the gate of an unassuming farm and a night watchman told them nobody was home. Inside, the underground high command of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, was meeting in a thatched cottage on the property, unaware Nelson Mandela himself had lived there disguised as a farmhand. You'll learn about Harold Wolpe, who ran the farm and drafted a guerrilla code of conduct found among the seized papers. A listening tip: stand at the farm gate where the watchman's answer almost sent the police away.