Author: Anthony Trethowan
Publisher: 30 Degrees South
Keywords: operator, coverage, ground, scout, delta
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2008-08-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1920143211
ISBN-13: 9781920143213

As a young Patrol Officer, Tony Tretowan was to experience rural life in remote stations in the bush of Matabeleland. He embraced the experience and learned Sindebele within a few months. The book is richly interspersed with anecdotes of wild frontier life - of rowdy prospectors, obstreperous farmers, maverick hunters and bizarre eccentrics. He deals with a wide array of crimes and incidents - from murder, tribal suicide, sorcery, robbery and drunkenness to horrific vehicle accidents. But as the bush war intensifies, Tony finds himself more and more involved in paramilitary operations. Grou

Authors:Alexandre Binda, Chris Cocks,
Publisher: 30 Degrees South
Keywords: infantry, light, rhodesian, saints
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-08-08
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1920143076
ISBN-13: 9781920143077

Very little about the RLI had been published; it was often underrated, but arguably one of the most effective counter-insurgency units of all time. This was the unit that brought the ’Fireforce’ concept to the world s attention - the devastatingly ruthless airborne envelopment and annihilation of a guerrilla enemy. Dubbed ’The Killing Machine’ by Charles D. Melson, chief historian of the US Marine Corps, the RLI was a veritable ’foreign legion’ with over 20 diverse nationalities serving in her ranks. The RLI fought the bitter Zimbabwean ’bush war̵

Author: J. R. T Wood
Publisher: 30 Degrees South
Keywords: war, bush, fireforce, rhodesian, strike, sky, counter
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-07-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1920143335
ISBN-13: 9781920143336

Fireforce as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Coupled with this, the traditional counter-insurgency tactics (against Mugabe’s ZANLA and Nkomo’s ZIPRA) of follow-ups, tracking and ambushing simply weren’t producing satisfactory results. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers thus expanded on the idea of a ’vertical envelopment’ of the enemy (first practised by SAS paratroopers in Mozambique in 1973), with the 20mm cannon being the principle weapon of

Author: Chris Cocks
Publisher: 30 Degrees South
Keywords: light, infantry, rhodesian, war, one, man, fireforce
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-06-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0958489092
ISBN-13: 9780958489096

Fireforce is the compelling, brutal but true account of Chris Cocks’ service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, during Zimbabwe s bitter civil war of the ’70s a war that came to be known almost innocuously as ’the bush war’. ’Fireforce’, a tactic of total airborne envelopment, was developed and perfected by the RLI, together with the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian Air Force. Fireforce became the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces in their struggle against the overwhelming tide of the Communist-trained and -equipped ZANLA a

Authors:Fiona McIntosh, Capenature,
Publisher: 30 Degrees South
Keywords: sites, south, africa, heritage, world, travel, guides, floral, region, areas, protected, cape
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-08-08
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0958489181
ISBN-13: 9780958489188

Let Southbound take you to the astonishing floral riches of the Cape - what Carl Linnaeus described as ’this Heaven on Earth’ - a vast area of mountainous shrubland, dominated by fynbos, and rich in faunal, floral and cultural diversity. The Cape Floral Kingdom is one of the oldest plant kingdoms in the world with some species dating back 60 million years The smallest and richest of the world’s six Floral Kingdoms with a staggering 9,600 flora species, 70% of which occur nowhere else on Earth. Comprising eight unique areas - Table Mountain, Groot Winterhoek, Cederbe

Author: David Fleminger
Publisher: 30 Degrees South
Keywords: south, africa, heritage, sites, world, guides, travel, humankind, cradle
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-08-13
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0958489130
ISBN-13: 9780958489133

Let Southbound take you back to where we came from - The Cradle of Humankind in the Magaliesberg region of the Gauteng and North West provinces of South Africa and uncover the myths and intricacies of our species in this delightfully entertaining and informative guide. Ta-dah! Introducing the ancestral cast- Mrs. Ples (or is that Mr.?), the Taung child, Little Foot... and a host of fossil extras and where they hung out - the caves of Sterkfontein, Kromdraai and Swartkranz Then digging ’em all up - Raymond Dart, Robert Broom, Ron Clarke, Lee Burger et al History of the area and

Author: Brigadier-General Dick Lord
Publisher: 30 Degrees South
Keywords: force, border, war, air, african, eagle, south, fledgling
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 2009-06-03
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1920143300
ISBN-13: 9781920143305

’From Fledgling to Eagle’ chronicles the evolution of the SAAF in the ’Border War’ that raged in Angola and South West Africa (Namibia) from 1966 to 1989, covering all the major South African Defence Force (SADF) operations from Ongulumbashe to the ’April Fool’s Day war’ in 1989. Dick Lord, who writes in a ’from the cockpit’ style, has drawn on his own first-hand operational reports and diaries, incorporating anecdotes from dozens of aviators from a wide variety of squadrons - Buccaneers, Canberras, Mirages, Impapas, Bosboks, C-160s and 130