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Mercenary ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare dies aged 100 in South Africa

Hoare shot to fame in the 1960s when he led some 300 soldiers in the DRC to crush a communist-inspired rebel uprising
In 1981, Hoare led a group of mercenaries that planned a coup to return to power the pro-Western founding president James Mancham in the Seychelles

By AFP · 03 February 2020