kameraad mhambi

There was not one single reason that South Africa decided to invade Angola. There were a number.
Some historians have suggested that a series of escalating incidents drew the South Africans into the conflict. But this ignores that there were some over arching South African goals and one of them in particular - Afrikaner acceptance - [...]

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Tonight the first episode of Grensoorlog (Border War), the documentary I worked on as researcher, writer, producer and director (on two episodes) screened on South African cable TV.
When conducting interviews, it became obvious that a simplified raison d’etre for this war exists among many South African soldiers that fought in it.
Communism.
Even some senior officers [...]

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