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October 16, 2025

Members of the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) take up a position next to a shack in the black Umlazi township outside Durban, South Africa, as supporters of the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party clashed outside a stadium where President Nelson Mandela addressed a May Day rally, 01 May 1995. A new book looks at the legacy of Black African soldiers who fought in South African forces from the 1970s into the early 1990s. WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP via Getty Images)

New Book Considers Forgotten Black Soldiers In South Africa’s Wars

May 18, 2023 zenger.news Comments Off

Review: “Apartheid’s Black Soldiers Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa” by Lennart Bolliger
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