- Title
- [Post] Colonial Histories: Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in the Context of the Angolan Civil War
- Creator
- Baines, Gary F
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125752
- Identifier
- vital:35814
- Identifier
- https://doi.10.1080/03612759.2019.1587342
- Description
- In 2007, a former South African Defence Force (SADF) paratrooper, Marius van Niekerk, embarked on a journey to confront his shameful memories relating to his role in the Angolan Civil War. From Sweden (where he had gone into exile), Van Niekerk returned to Angola, where he had been deployed during the mid-1980s, and recruited three other veterans of the war to join his party: Patrick Johannes, who had been coerced to fight for the Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA); Samuel Machado Amaru, who was forcefully enlisted by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA); and Mario Mahonga, who had fought for the Portuguese colonial army before he was recruited by the SADF to fight against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) regime. Van Niekerk had been conscripted at the age of seventeen, and the others had been coerced into their respective militias at more tender ages. It is not clear how the three Angolans were induced to participate in the project, whose objectives they evidently did not share.
- Format
- 4 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- History: Reviews of New Books, Baines, G., 2019. [Post] Colonial Histories: Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in the Context of the Angolan Civil War. 47(3) 68-70, History: Reviews of New Books volume 47 number 3 68 70 2019 0361-2759
- Rights
- History: Reviews of New Books
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Baines, Gary Fred (Prof Emeritus)
RU Department of History
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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