Fidel Castro and Black South Africa. By ANGELO FICK

Angelo Fick
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:00:04 +0000
Features, FROM THE DECEMBER ISSUE, diplomacy, Fidel Castro

For many of us who came to adulthood in the later years of the First Cold War between the United States of America and the now defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and who lived in countries where proxy conflicts between the super-powers coloured much of our lives, Castro’s Cuba, from a distance, constituted a …