The honour to serve: Recollections of an Umkhonto soldier - James Ngculu

James Ngculu was one of the many young people who was inspired by the 1976 Soweto Uprising to join Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile, to fight against South Africa’s apartheid regime. He was not in search of a comfortable life, and he did not find one. But like many of his comrades, the young Ngculu found inspiration and education, in equal measure with frustration and hardship. The Honour to Serve is both his personal story and a fascinating, painstaking history of those aspects of the ANC’s struggle that formed its context.