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.