Gerald L’Ange is a South African journalists and writer — and a white African himself. His identity is derived from ancestral generations in Africa sufficient in number to have severed his European roots: from English settler forebears — 1820 settlers on his father’s side and Byrne settlers of 1850 on his mother’s side — and from a missionary of French and German ancestry who Arrived under the auspices of the London Missionary Society in 1836 and gave the author his French surname.

A journalist all his working life, L’Ange has functioned in that capacity in South Africa , Kenya (during the Mau Mau insurgency), Britain , Canada and the United States . As an accredited journalist at the UN in New York for seven years from 1968, he was able to observe at first hand growing opposition in the UN to white supremacy in Africa . He was foreign correspondent in Washington during the surge in anti-apartheid by both the White House and the Congress. In some 15 years with the Special Africa Service of his country’s major newspaper group, he covered events in a number of African countries. As the service’s editor, he directed coverage of the insurgency in Rhodesia and Namibia , of the South African military intervention in Angola , of the South African campaign of destabilisation in the sub-continent and of the ANC’s activities from its bases in neighbouring countries.