Patrick Chamusso didn’t set out to become a terrorist, but the times in which he lived made him into one. An oil-refinery worker in the South African town of Secunda, Chamusso was arrested in 1980 for conspiring with members of the African National Congress to bomb the Secunda plant. These were the grimmest years of the apartheid system, during which much of the rest of the world had turned its back on South Africa and United Nations–imposed oil sanctions were crippling its economy. Dissenting voices were quickly silenced by imprisonment or death. So while Chamusso was detained and tortured by Afrikaner authorities, the Secunda bombing became a rallying point for the ANC and black South Africans alike. There was just one thing: Patrick... More >>>