Despite various setbacks, the two friendly liberation armies managed to cross the mighty and roaring Zambezi River that was made of two platoons from each military wing.
Our final nearly nine-year exile in London included involvement in the lost battles of the last great miners’ strike and the fight at Rupert Murdoch’s digitised Wapping plant. But the bitter learning experience was in initiating and coordinating what was probably the biggest trade union-bas.
For all my tendency to optimism, I have always harboured a degree of caution. So, when we sold up everything in New Zealand and shipped ourselves and more than a ton of books and other educational gear to start the ANC primary school in Tanzania, I kept back 1,500 Swiss francs (R4,800 at the ti.