Moe Shaik is a former South African spy boss.
Five years before the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the release of political prisoners including Nelson Mandela, a security policeman carrying a batch of documents walked into an optometry practice in Durban. He was offering to be an informant to the then-banned ANC and the person he approached is Moe Shaik
Over the next six years The Nightingale fed Moe with vital intelligence that helped to keep alive the ANC’s underground activities against the apartheid government.
What was apartheid?
According to Wikipedia,
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation’s minority white population. According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Indians and Coloureds, then black Africans.
I don’t remember much of the apartheid era, but the remnants are still visible around me. It’s pretty obvious that, while some constructive critiques can be made about the failures of multiculturalism, the system was completely unsustainable. (My conversation about the illegitimacy of all governments is worth a listen.)
Our conversation
I get that somebody like Moe Shaik has a lot fog surrounding him due to the nature of his legacy and central intelligence links, but I urge everybody to listen to this discussion.
My goal was to neither interrogate nor gotcha him. Rather, I wanted to listen to his story in good faith. Some of his story is covered in his book The ANC Spy Bible.
