Takka Takka Bom Bom
Takka Takka Bom Bom

Author: Al J. Venter

Publisher: Casemate

Published: 2023-12-07

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1636243819

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The world’s oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter, has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horrors humanity visits upon itself in twenty-five conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. In this memoir, Venter masterfully recounts his experiences, sharing the real stories behind the headlines and the sharp lessons he learned that enabled him to survive his countless exploits, ranging from exposing a major KGB operative in Rhodesia entirely by accident, and accompanying an Israeli force led by Ariel Sharon into Beirut, to gun-running into the United States.

Congressional Record
Congressional Record

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 1458

ISBN-13:

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Portugal's Bush War in Mozambique
Portugal's Bush War in Mozambique

Author: Al J. Venter

Publisher: Casemate

Published: 2022-05-19

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1612009379

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A new account of how Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique for over a decade. Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique — one of the most beautiful countries in the world — for over a decade. The small European nation was ranged against formidable odds and in the end was unable to muster the resources required to effectively take on the might of the Soviet Union and its collaborators—every single communist country on the planet and almost all of Black Africa. Yet, Al Venter argues, Portugal did not actually lose the war, and indeed fought in difficult terrain with a good degree of success over an extended period. It was radical domestic politics that heralded the end. Mozambique is once again embroiled in a guerrilla war, this time against a large force of Islamic militants, many from Somalia and some Arab countries, and unequivocally backed by Islamic State and the lessons of Mozambique’s bush war are still relevant today.

Robert McBride
Robert McBride

Author: Bryan Rostron

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9780624089155

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It was 1987: the time of 'total onslaught'. The trial of the MK unit that planted the Magoo's bomb on the Durban beachfront dominated the news but few knew the real facts of the brave young people who brought the armed struggle to KwaZulu-Natal. This is the remarkable story of McBride and his comrades: the substation sabotage spree, rescuing a compatriot from hospital and smuggling him to Botswana, the devastating Why Not and Magoo's car bomb that killed three women, the dramatic trial and McBride's 1 463 days on Death Row. Now updated to include McBride's controversial life after the end of a.

But He Speaks So Well
But He Speaks So Well

Author: Ivan Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780624092193

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Join Ivan Johnson in his memoir of an identity crisis as he journeys from the turmoil of the 1980s Cape Flats to the lily-white advertising world, where he ghosts from group to group, fitting in everywhere but belonging nowhere. Told with flair and irreverence, Ivan's sharp eye and zest for life gives both food for thought and great entertainment.

Smacked
Smacked

Author: Melinda Ferguson

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0143527304

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Smacked is the powerful, uncompromising story of one woman's downward spiral into addiction. Hooked on heroin and crack cocaine, Melinda Ferguson gave up everything she cared about - her children, her marriage, her career - in pursuit of the next fix, the next high. Bold, raw and unashamedly honest, Smacked is a tale of loss and rehabilitation that takes us to the darkest corners of an addict's psyche.

Being Chris Hani's Daughter
Being Chris Hani's Daughter

Author: Lindiwe Hani

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781920601843

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"When Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and heir apparent to Nelson Mandela, was brutally slain in his driveway in April 1993, he left a shocked and grieving South Africa on the precipice of civil war. But to 12-year-old Lindiwe, it was the love of her life, her daddy, who had been shockingly ripped from her life. In this intimate and brutally honest memoir, 36-year-old Lindiwe remembers the years she shared with her loving father, and the toll that his untimely death took on the Hani family."--