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Weep For Africa - A Rhodesian Light InfantryParatroopers Farewell to Innocence. By Jeremy Hall
A Rhodesian Light Infantry Paratroopers Farewell toInnocence
Jeremy Halls childhood in the white-ruled apartheid SouthAfrica of the 1950s and 60s was ostensibly idyllic: growing up in the farmingareas of Natal, he had free rein to pander to his keen exploratory mind, yetniggling away was entrenched racism and interracial hatred.
Closeted in the hallowed halls of an English-speaking highschool, the revelation of the real world that followed a world of townshipunrest, Afrikaner politicians issuing dire warnings of the red and black hordesmassing on the borders exploded into Halls psyche with his national-servicecall-up into the South African Defence Force (SADF), where he encountered theinstitutionalized hatred of the Afrikaner hierarchy for the English-speakingrecruits, the rowe, or scabs.
Disillusioned and unsettled, following his SADFconscription, Hall found himself in 1976 signing on for three years with 2Commando The Rhodesian Light Infantry as the bush war in that country eruptedfrom a simmering, low-key insurgency into full-blown war.
As a paratrooper with this crack airborne unit, he was tosee continual combat on Fireforce operations and cross-border raids into Zambiaand Mozambique, such as Operation Dingo, the 1977 Rhodesian attack on ZANLAsChimoio base.
ISBN: 978-1-920143-93-0
Paperback / 360 pages
2 photos & maps
Military History / African Studies / Memoir
