Looking back, looking forward.

We were fighting a war for 12 to 16 hours at a time, each shift was a mission of sorts. After your shift you went home and took that shit home and you relived it. The next shift then you started again. It was like operating in some abstract war movie, like a urban war

Stage fright

When the police transferred me to Johannesburg in 1992 I started to have nightmares of shooting suspects but the bullets didn’t hit them or just didn’t do what they were meant to do. These nightmares / dreams seemed very real and always in dark environments, armed suspects would appear I would fire at them and

Men Who Wanted to be Left Alone

“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from

History post

After the 1994 elections

It’s odd how events of today can take you back to memories of the past. This takes me back to 1994 not long after the 1994 elections. I was watching an advert for a new movie concerning child trafficking. This took me back to a winter night shift as a young lance sergeant and Nyala

Reflection

It is a good thing to reflect on your own life and what you’ve been doing, self evaluation. I have witnessed and participated in violent actions, but I can say i never participated for enjoyment or to impose a statutory law. A country will always need ‘enforcers’, but the understanding must be that common law

Shell House 1994

In re: The Joint Inquest Concerning the Death of PHENDUKANI ZONDI and Eighteen others FINDINGS AND REASONS INTRODUCTION The Inquests Act 58 of 1959 requires an inquest to be held whenever it appears that a person has died of unnatural causes and there has been no prosecution. The purpose which is served by an inquest

Just a thought

Many have wondered if the Angolan border war was the equivalent of the USA’s war in Vietnam? I believe that the truth was even closer to home, a lot closer.

Libation. We will remember

Strange thing looking back at the past, the more time that passes, facts and truth become distorted. We know that those in power control the flow of information to a high degree, they generally control media and legislation, there are many methods to alter and sway opinions when you control the purse strings. Many are

Ons sal onthou

Vreemde ding as ons terugkyk na die verlede, hoe meer tyd verloop, feite en waarheid word verdraai. Ons weet dat diegene aan bewind die vloei van inligting in ‘n hoë mate beheer, hulle beheer oor die algemeen media en wetgewing, daar is baie metodes om menings te verander en te swaai wanneer jy die beursies