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When Amin Cajee left South Africa to join the liberation struggle he believed he had volunteered to serve �a democratic movement dedicated to bringing down an oppressive and racist regime�. Instead, he writes, in this powerful and courageous memoir, �I found myself serving a movement that was relentless in exercising power and riddled with corruption�. Fordsburg Fighter traces an extraordinary physical journey � from home in South Africa, to training in Czechoslovakia and the ANC�s Kongwa camp in Tanzania to England. The book makes a significant contribution to the hidden history of exile, and documents Cajee�s emotional odyssey from idealism to disillusionment.