Angolsh. Scenes from an army camp

Written with humour and humanity, Angolsh: Scenes from an army camp, evokes the atmosphere of South Africa's 1970s.
Latter, Greg
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Title: Angolsh
Subtitle: : Scenes from an army camp
Author: Greg Latter
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Penguin Books
Cape Town, South Africa 2019
ISBN 9781776094851 / ISBN 978-1-77-609485-1
Softcover, 13 x 21 cm, 170 pages

About: Angolsh. Scenes from an army camp

In early 1976 while working as a blaster on ERPM gold mine in Boksburg, the author of Angolsh Scenes from an army camp, Greg Latter, was called up for a three-month army camp in Angola, and there was no getting out of it. The truth is, he was actually keen to go. This story is about those three months, told from the day he received his call-up telegram to the day after he got back. There is nothing gung-ho in the pages of this book. It’s mainly about the cock-ups, of which there were countless, the major one involving Greg himself. It’s also about the kak food and contraband dagga, the rumours and the confusion, the stubborn dirt and the stifling heat, local Angolans and Portuguese refugees, tough guys and tortured souls. Greg Latter is an award-winning South African writer who has worked all over the world. He is the recipient of the Thomas Pringle Award for Creative Writing (1982), the Sithengi Best Screenplay Award (2005), the SAFTA Best Screenplay Award (2007) and the Naledi Best Play Award (2011). In a career spanning 35 years, he has had 22 feature films, 11 television series and five plays produced.