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Watershed - Angola and Mozambique: a Photo-History: the Portuguese Collapse in Africa, 1974-1975 (Paperback)
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Watershed - Angola and Mozambique: a Photo-History: the Portuguese Collapse in Africa, 1974-1975 (Paperback)
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In the first quarter of 1974 the advance of African independence
that began in Ghana in 1956 had ground to a halt in southern
Africa. It had come up against a seemingly impenetrable wall of
white and colonial rule: the Portuguese in Angola and Mozambique,
the UDI regime in Rhodesia, South African rule in South West Africa
(Namibia), and the apartheid government in South Africa itself. And
then, on April 25, 1974, the wall cracked. A coup d'etat overthrew
Portugal's dictatorship. Portuguese defence against the guerrilla
movements in their colonies collapsed. In the next nineteen months
Angola and Mozambique fell into bloody anarchy from which emerged
tottering new regimes struggling to survive their own civil wars.
Rhodesia was suddenly naked to attack through Mozambique and South
West Africa from Angola. Abruptly southern Africa became a Cold War
hot zone involving South African and Cuban forces. But the future
was clear: this was the beginning of the end for white rule. It
came five years later in Rhodesia and fifteen in Namibia and South
Africa. The trigger - the transition of the Portuguese colonies to
self-rule - was captured in extraordinary detail by photographers
of the Argus Africa news service, a small, highly professional
South African agency. These have been compiled here by its then
editor, Wilf Nussey, who wrote the accompanying text.
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