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The Battle of Bangui
Author | : Warren Thompson,Stephan Hofstatter,James Oatway |
Publsiher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2021-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781776094745 |
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In March 2013, South Africa suffered its worst military defeat since the end of apartheid. After a battle that lasted almost two days, 200 crack troops who engaged 7 000 rebels in the Central African Republic were forced to negotiate a ceasefire at their base. Thirteen South African soldiers died in the battle, with two more later succumbing to their wounds. The mission was shrouded in mystery from the start. The deployment and the diplomatic machinations that led to it were kept secret from the South African public and Parliament. So, too, were an assortment of shadowy commercial interests held by businessmen, some with close ties to the African National Congress. In an investigation spanning more than seven years, the authors gained exclusive access to the soldiers who fought valiantly against overwhelming odds; travelled to Bangui to obtain documentation and meet the rebel leaders who took part in the battle; interviewed a deposed dictator living in exile in Paris; and spoke to the widows of the fallen soldiers. They also met influen¬tial fixers and dealmakers, and unearthed secret files containing bribe agreements to unravel an intricate web of corruption and patronage reaching the highest echelons of power in South Africa and the CAR. After close to a decade of speculation and rumour, The Battle of Bangui lays bare for the first time both the litany of strategic, tactical and logistical blunders that ended in military disaster, and the secret diplomatic and commercial deals that led to South Africa’s worst foreign misad¬venture of the democratic era. It’s also a cracking war story filled with heroism, camaraderie, terror, pathos and triumph over adversity.
Battle of Bangui
Author | : Warren Thompson,Stephan Hofstatter,James Oatway |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Bangui (Central African Republic) |
ISBN | : 1776094735 |
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"In March 2013, South Africa suffered its worst military defeat since the end of apartheid. After a battle that lasted almost two days, 200 crack troops who engaged 7 000 rebels in the Central African Republic were forced to negotiate a ceasefire at their base. Thirteen South African soldiers died in the battle, with two more later succumbing to their wounds. he mission was shrouded in mystery from the start. The deployment and the diplomatic machinations that led to it were kept secret from the South African public and Parliament. So, too, were an assortment of shadowy commercial interests held by businessmen, some with close ties to the African National Congress. In an investigation spanning more than seven years, the authors gained exclusive access to the soldiers who fought valiantly against overwhelming odds; travelled to Bangui to obtain documentation and meet the rebel leaders who took part in the battle; interviewed a deposed dictator living in exile in Paris; and spoke to the widows of the fallen soldiers. They also met influential fixers and dealmakers, and unearthed secret files containing bribe agreements to unravel an intricate web of corruption and patronage reaching the highest echelons of power in South Africa and the CAR. After close to a decade of speculation and rumour, The Battle of Bangui lays bare for the first time both the litany of strategic, tactical and logistical blunders that ended in military disaster, and the secret diplomatic and commercial deals that led to South Africa's worst foreign misadventure of the democratic era. It's also a cracking war story filled with heroism, camaraderie, terror, pathos and triumph over adversity."--
Military Psychology for Africa
Author | : Gideon AJ van Dyk |
Publsiher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781920689957 |
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Military Psychology for Africaÿis the first textbook of its kind from Africa. Selected authors with competent military psychology knowledge, skills, expertise and experience each contributed a chapter to this unique book. The book empowers academics, students and military fellows to apply this knowledge at academic institutions and military units, during operations, and in presenting short courses. The book will also equip soldiers with new knowledge for advancing peace on the continent and abroad.
In Different Times
Author | : Ian van der Waag,Albert Grundlingh |
Publsiher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781928480341 |
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This is the first attempt to bring together diverse scholars, using different lenses, to study South Africa’s Border War. As a book, it is critical in approach, provides deeper reflection, and focuses specifically on the SADF experience of the war. The result is a more complex picture of the war’s dynamics and its legacies. Although South Africa is a vastly different country today, the study of the Border War opens a range of questions, also relevant to contemporary deployments such as in Lesotho (1998) and the Central African Republic (2013). It includes the debate on participation in foreign conflicts; on the deployment, design and preparation of appropriate, modern armed forces and their use as foreign policy instruments in far‑off theatres; on military planning; and, as the historical controversies regarding the battles at Cuito Cuanavale and Bangui illustrate, on the interface between foreign campaigning and domestic politics.
Power in Peacekeeping
Author | : Lise Morjé Howard |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781108471121 |
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Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.
France s Wars in Chad
Author | : Nathaniel K. Powell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108488679 |
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Examines twenty years of French military interventions in Chad and Hissène Habré's rise to power between 1960 and 1982.
World Report 2019
Author | : Human Rights Watch |
Publsiher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 957 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781609808853 |
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The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Sitting Pretty
Author | : Christi Van der Westhuizen |
Publsiher | : University of Kwazulu Natal Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Afrikaners |
ISBN | : 1869143760 |
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How have white Afrikaans-speaking women responded to the liberating possibilities of constitutional democracy? Have they re-imagined themselves in opposition to colonial ideas of race, gender, sexuality and class? Sitting Pretty explores this postapartheid identity through the concepts of ordentlikheid and the volksmoeder.