Buffalo Soldiers in South Africa

The bulk of the men who were recruited by man, the guys who were like the cannon fodder for this operation were, of course, black soldiers. Most of them lived in a place called Palm Frei, which had been the military base and was now an old asbestos filled slum that they lived in with their families in horrific squalor. Families told of husbands and fathers who scrabbled at the chance of well paid work. No questions asked at one house, a wooden carving on the wall shows a lion eating a man with a gun. And that's why you did it. It could work. You trust the leaders. Some of the guys did it for the kicks because life