On the 29th January 2005, 15 years today, the book was launched at the Johannesburg Central Police Station (former John Vorster Square Police Station)
Foreword by President Thabo Mbeki
‘Ahmed Timol was my comrade not in only in the broad and diffuse sense that we shared an allegiance to a humane political movement that was determined to overthrow injustice, in that we were comrades-in-arms, but we were also comrades, quite literally. He and I went to receive political training in Moscow in the Sixties. We had the same teachers in the same institution. We ate the same food.We made the same friends, acquaintances and contacts. We shivered alike in that cold foreign place and were warmed by the same revolutionary yearnings.’
