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THE INTERNATIONALISTS: THE INTERNATIONAL COVERT SACPANC BRIGADE: COMMENTS BY BRIG. HENNIE HEYMANS:

Taking a leaf from history (and from Uys Krige and Roy Campbell’s poetry) our attention turns to Spain during the period 1936 - 1938. The following is interesting parallel between Spain’s conventional war and our own revolutionary war (1961 – 1994). The method is more or less the same: “The International Brigades (Spanish: Brigadas Internacionales) were paramilitary units set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish

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