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“... the same life story. Sisonke Msimang boldly states that she wants to ‘redeem Ma Winnie’, while Fred Bridgland dedicates his book to the ‘little’ and ‘unimportant’ people who were the victims of her actions. The children and young men of the Mandela United Football Club, which she ran, hardly ever played football, but served as her bodyguards ...”

“... documented. The American role in Angola’s 11-year-old civil war is similarly well-described by Fred Bridgland in Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa. The struggle for power after the collapse of Portuguese colonialism in 1974 was resolved, not by the three rival liberation movements, but by the decisive intervention of the USSR and Cuba on the side of the ...”

“... by the prospect of what Savimbi would do to their families if they left. His former admirer Fred Bridgland, who published a lionising biography in the 1980s, had long since turned against him. Savimbi didn’t like that. Ten years ago Bridgland told me the death threats were so serious that De Klerk’s people ...”