Weep for Africa: A Rhodesian Light Infantry Paratrooper’s Farewell to Innocence

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Jeremy Hall’s childhood within the white-ruled apartheid South Africa of the 1950s and ’60s used to be ostensibly idyllic: growing up within the farming areas of Natal, he had free rein to pander to his keen exploratory mind, yet niggling away used to be entrenched racism and interracial hatred. Closeted within the hallowed halls of an English-speaking highschool, the revelation of the actual world that followed – an international of township unrest, Afrikaner politicians issuing dire warnings of the red and black hordes massing at the borders – exploded into Hall’s psyche along with his national-service call-up into the South African Defense Force (SADF), where he encountered the institutionalized hatred of the Afrikaner hierarchy for the English-speaking recruits, the rowe, or ‘scabs’. Disillusioned and unsettled, following his SADF conscription, Hall found himself in 1976 signing on for 3 years with 2 Commando The Rhodesian Light Infantry because the bush war in that country erupted from a simmering, low-key insurgency into full-blown war. As a paratrooper with this crack airborne unit, he used to be to peer continual combat on Fireforce operations and cross-border raids into Zambia and Mozambique, such as Operation Dingo, the 1977 Rhodesian attack on ZANLA’s Chimoio base.

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