MASODJA, The history of the Rhodesian African Rifles and its forerunner the Rhodesian Native Regiment

447pp., maps, illus., paperback, Reprint, South Publishers, Durban, (2007) 2026 

ISBN: 9781928359999

Commissioned and compiled by Brigadier David Heppenstall and the Rhodesian African Rifles Regimental Association (UK).

A comprehensive regimental history that covers the formation of the Rhodesia Native Regiment (RNR) in 1916, RNR operations in East Africa during WWI and its disbandment in 1919, the formation of the Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) in 1940, the RAR in the Burma campaign, the Malayan Emergency, the Nyasaland Emergency and the Rhodesian Bush War. Post- independence, the RAR fought in the Battles of Entumbane in Bulawayo, defeating Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA forces.

Alexandre Binda was born in Mozambique in 1945. He joined the Rhodesian Army in 1965, took part in around a dozen deployments with RLI and SAS combat-tracker teams in support of the Portuguese Army in the Tete Province of Mozambique, did a four-year tour of duty with the Selous Scouts, and was paymaster for the Grey's Scouts and other units such the Psychological Operations Unit. He was awarded a Military Forces Commendation and was commissioned in 1979. He is the author of The Saints – A History of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and The Rhodesia Regiment – From Boer War to Bush War: 1899-1980. He lives in the UK.