Angolan apartheid troops battle to survive in S Africa

POMFRET, South Africa: Angolan soldiers recruited by South Africa’s apartheid government to fight against their homeland now live in squalor, forgotten and unwanted. Without healthcare, jobs or basic services, some 3,000 Angolan-born men call home the town of Pomfret in a far-flung northern corner of South Africa on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Dilapidated buildings crumble by the side of the town’s sun-baked main road, water and power are cut off, and the asbestos factory that once sustained the region was abandoned long ago.