Swords into ploughshares

“It is remarkable that ordinary Angolan and South African soldiers, once fierce enemies in a long-gone war in Angola, have decided to launch a combined military operation. Not in anger this time, but with a focus on reconciliation and peace. It is to be close and personal once again, but in friendship, not in fighting.” — Maj-Gen Roland de Vries, former deputy chief of the army, commenting on the visit by SADF war vets to Angola in May