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The three recent accounts of state capture and corruption should be at the top of a serious South African’s list of books to read. And then there are the top-selling titles of the moment, with Faf du Plessis’s Faf: Through Fire obviously having a great appeal for sports-lovers.
The oldest active war correspondent has released his newest book about his experience in wars since 1967.
France, the former colonial power in Mali and most of the Sahel region, withdrew all its forces in August. Who will fill the vacuum and how will this translate into the political dynamics on the ground?
Posted on 12 April 2021. 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 sub-Saharan 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 do...