When Amin Cajee left South Africa to join the liberation struggle he believed he had volunteered to serve a democratic movement dedicated to bringing down an oppressive and racist regime . Instead, he writes, in this powerful and courageous memoir, I found myself serving a movement that was relentless in exercising power and riddled with corruption . Fordsburg Fighter traces an extraordinary physical journey from home in South Africa, to training in Czechoslovakia and the ANC s Kongwa camp in Tanzania to England. The book makes a significant contribution to the hidden history of exile, and documents Cajee s emotional odyssey from idealism to disillusionment.
