South Africa’s ageing white mercenaries who helped turn tide on Boko Haram Battle-hardened soldiers, many of them paramilitary leftovers of the apartheid regime, have pursued private wars simply to put bread on the table Leon Lotz was once a member of the Koevoet – “crowbar” in Afrikaans – a paramilitary police unit created by South..
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South Africa’s old white soldiers helped Nigeria beat Boko Haram where NO government, not even USA or UK, will.
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ANC’s MK a mere pinprick compared to SWAPO & SADF did win. Expert summary of 23 year border war.
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There aren’t many truly unknown wars these days. Military history writing, scholarly and popular and in between, has mushroomed over the past several decades. But military events under the Southern Cross receive much less attention, because the vast majority of the developed countries are well north of the Equator. Reading South African accounts of the..
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