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- How South Africa Built Six Atom Bombs
- Dive South Africa
- Wreck Hunt
- Mercenary Invasion of Seychelles
- Jack Malloch
- Deadline Africa
- Battles of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
- Diving with Sharks
- Neall Ellis
- Barrel of a Gun
- South Africa's Border Wars
- The 'Coloured' People of South Africa and Apartheid
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Al J Venter
John H. Visser
Charles Shapiro
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SOUTH AFRICA'S BORDER WARS - A RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN CONFLICTS
Edited by Willem Steenkamp et al
Due for publication early 2009
Conflict was as much an ingredient of the status quo during South Africa's apartheid era as racially-dominated politics. At its worst, it extended over a region as vast as Western Europe and involved not only Angola, Zambia, Mocambique and Rhodesia (which was to become Zimbabwe), but just about all the other countries south of the equator.
These included Tanzania, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and, to a lesser extent, Malawi and Congo (Brazza).
There were many countries involved in providing moral and material support to guerrilla groups. While the Cold War remained on the boil, the Soviets and their surrogates were the most active providers of military personnel and equipment, closely followed by Cuba and China.
In Africa itself, numerous nations rallied to offer liberation groups help, which included military training, succour as well as permanent bases for those involved in the struggle. These included Libya, Algeria, the Sudan and Egypt in the Arab world as well as Guinea (Conakry), Ghana, Nigeria, Upper Volta (Burkina Fassa), Ethiopia, Uganda and others further south.
South Africa's Border Wars takes a close look at these conflicts, the ground and air components especially.
The book is to be illustrated by hundreds of photographs in all the theatres of military activity, together with specialist contributions from many of the disciplines involved. That includes military intelligence, pseudo groups, long range strikes, naval involvement as well as a variety of other efforts mustered to counter what one South African president described as 'this insidious form of "no name" terrorism that will ultimately affect the entire international community'.
Due for publication early 2009