Fighting for Another Flag – Manuel R. Ferreira

A5, 230p.

While many books have been written about the Border War (1966 – 1989), almost all have been written by conventional soldiers that took the fight to the enemy with many spilling their blood on the African soil.

Fighting For Another Flag is the journey of Manuel Resende Ferreira who arrived in South Africa as a refugee from Angola in 1975. Manuel was schooled in South Africa, completed his National Service with the South African Medical Services and then made the decision to join the Permanent Force serving in Military intelligence.

Manuel was one of a handful of South Africans who would serve on the Comoros manning Charlie Station while being seconded to the islands Presidential Guard led by legendary Bob Denard. It was on the Comoros that a South African wearing the uniform of a foreign force would risk his life to save members of the Presidential Guard. In this revised edition Manuel pulls off his own coup with the full story of “The Secret HC”  being revealed for the first time.

This book is a must for those that  want to know more  about unconventional soldiers who  worked behind the scenes, the “Shadow Warriors” who operated outside of South Africa’s borders in Africa and Europe to secure vital intelligence so the South African Defence Force could successfully plan and undertake operations against her enemies.

Manuel spent five years as an unconventional soldier and this is his story.

“I Have no claim to fame, I simply did my duty”

~ Manuel Resende Ferreira