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_bN43 2009
082 _a322.420968
100 1 _aNgculu, James.
245 1 4 _aThe honour to serve :
_brecollections of an Umkhonto soldier /
_cJames Ngculu ; foreword by Thabo Mbeki.
260 _aClaremont [South Africa] :
_bDavid Philip,
_c2009.
300 _a271 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 268) and index.
520 _a"James Ngculu was one of the mass of young people inspired by the 1976 Soweto Uprising to join Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile to fight against South Africa's apartheid regime. They were not in search of a comfortable life, and they did not find one. But like many of his comrades, the young Ngculu found inspiration and education in more than equal measure with frustration and hardship. The Honour to Serve is both his personal story and a fascinating, painstaking history of those aspects of the ANC's struggle that formed its context. It is a memoir of his life in exile, accounts of his involvement in ANC's military wing, Umkhonto Wesizwe, recollections of various MK operations in Southern Africa, and military training in Europe and other parts of the world. Above all else, it is a gift of gratitude to his comrades and those organisations to which he gave his fealty: the ANC, the Communist Party, and Umkhonto we Sizwe itself"--New Africa Books website.
600 1 0 _aNgculu, James.
610 2 0 _aUmkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa)
_xHistory.
610 2 0 _aAfrican National Congress
_xHistory.
650 0 _aGuerrilla warfare
_zSouth Africa
_vBiography.
650 0 _aGovernment, Resistance to
_zSouth Africa.
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651 0 _aSouth Africa
_xHistory, Military.
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