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Format: Paper

168 Pages

Edition: 1st

Year: 2021

Publisher: Talaye Porsoo

ISBN: 9789645783462

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By Harry Villegas, 

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Beginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded Angola. Its goal: to impose a government beholden to Pretoria and imperialism....

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