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Pomfret is a desert town, the site of an old asbestos mine, on the edge of the Kalahari desert in northwest South Africa. It is the administrative centre of Molopo Local Municipality.〔(Municipal Demarcation Board : ''Municipal Profiles 2003 : Contact Infoormation for Molopo Local Municipality'' ) Retrieved 15 April 2010〕 Many of its inhabitants are former members of 32 Battalion, also known as Buffalo Battalion. These soldiers were predominantly Portuguese-speaking Angolans who decided to fight on the South African government side in Angola and Namibia, and after the end of the South African Border War to police the black townships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=South Africa - Pomfret )〕 The community remains largely Portuguese-speaking.〔(Legalbrief - Interim halt to Pomfret relocation )〕 == Present day== Today the town is described as depressing by those who visit. Injured veterans of war live in squalid circumstances. In 2004, Zimbabwe jailed over 60 mercenaries from Pomfret for one year for suspected involvement in a plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=South Africa - Dogs of War Head Home – But They'll Find It's Gone )〕 Those jailed were poor ex-soldiers and the jailing left their kin grieving. A 2009 documentary film recorded South African mercenaries describing how Pomfret was place to recruit cheap labor for mercenary activities.〔''Once Upon a Coup'', PBS Documentary, August 2009, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/once-upon-a-coup/full-episode/?p=5496〕 A new South African law has been passed to bar mercenaries, but some fear that new restrictions could prevent access for people to legitimate security-related work in areas of conflict. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pomfret, North West」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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