The honour to serve
Subtitle: recollections of an Umkhonto soldier
By: James Ngculu ; foreword by Thabo Mbeki
Publisher: David Philip
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Claremont [South Africa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780864867339
Subjects: African National Congress; Resistance to Government; Military History; Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa); Guerrilla warfare; Biography; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 268) and index.