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Weep for Africa - A Rhodesian Light Infantry Paratrooper's Farewell to Innocence (Paperback)
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Weep for Africa - A Rhodesian Light Infantry Paratrooper's Farewell to Innocence (Paperback)
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Jeremy Hall's childhood in the white-ruled apartheid South Africa
of the 1950s and '60s was ostensibly idyllic: growing up in the
farming areas of Natal, he had free rein to pander to his keen
exploratory mind, yet niggling away was entrenched racism and
interracial hatred. Closeted in the hallowed halls of an
English-speaking high school, the revelation of the real world that
followed - a world of township unrest, Afrikaner politicians
issuing dire warnings of the red and black hordes massing on the
borders - exploded into Hall's psyche with his national-service
call-up into the South African Defence Force (SADF), where he
encountered the institutionalized hatred of the Afrikaner hierarchy
for the English-speaking recruits, the rowe, or 'scabs'.
Disillusioned and unsettled, following his SADF conscription, Hall
found himself in 1976 signing on for three years with 2 Commando
The Rhodesian Light Infantry as the bush war in that country
erupted from a simmering, lowkey insurgency into full-blown war. As
a paratrooper with this crack airborne unit, he was to see
continual combat on Fireforce operations and cross-border raids
into Zambia and Mozambique, such as Operation Dingo, the 1977
Rhodesian attack on ZANLA's Chimoio base.
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