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Peter Stiff

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Peter Stiff (born September 8, 1933, died April 27, 2016) was a London-born best-selling author of both fiction and non fiction.

Biography

Peter lived in Zimbabwe for 28 years and served as a regular policeman for 20 years in the elite British South Africa Police, from which he retired as a superintendent in 1972. He moved to South Africa in 1980 after the fall of Rhodesia and the rise of Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF.

Peter was specialised in contemporary warfare and politics in the southern African sub-continent and authored books extensively on the bush war in the former Rhodesia, the ongoing conflict in Angola and the Namibian bush war, on the collapse of Portuguese power in Angola and Mozambique and much else as well