Troepie Snapshots Pictorial Recollections of the South African Border War Cameron Blake

Troepie Snapshots Pictorial Recollections of the South African Border War   

Author: Cameron Blake 

Publisher: 30° Publishers, Johannesburg

Edition: First 2011

ISBN: 978-1-920143-46-6

Language: English

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. Dedication to previous owner.

Binding: Softcover   

Pages: 320. Print with images 

Additional Information

This pictorial is a compilation of images obtained by the author while working on his first bookan oral history of pre-1994 South African Defence Force national service. It was illegal to take photos; however, there were inevitably those conscripts who ignored the rules, aiming their cheap, disposable cameras at whatever they could, but usually among comrades or when it was considered safe to do so.

Inevitably certain images are poor in quality, often blurred and off-centre. But that is the realityhastily taken amateur snapshots. Even so, many are remarkably clear, serving to illustrate a period when over 600,000 white South African males, between 1951 and 1993, were ordered to join the South African Defence Force for service mainly on the border, or the Operational AreaSouth West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. It is of note that all the photos, apart from Operation Protea, were taken by non-professional soldiers; young men some would call boys.

Some patriotically embraced their call-ups as an opportunity to serve their country, while most stoically accepted their unsought-for lotthe law, and a war to protect South Africa from the spread of communism, the Red Tide.

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