It’s been many years since I read George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia about his time fighting in the Spanish civil war. 

One of the parts I remember vividly, and which interestingly came to mind as I listened to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech, was his complaint that his Spanish comrades were not particularly good at making war...

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