Border-Line Insanity offers the reader an insight into the life of
a conscripted soldier in the South African army during the dark
days of apartheid.
In 1984 I was thrust into a scary world of strict order and
discipline as a teenage school graduate, experiencing subtle brain
washing as I became moulded into a white soldier for the mandatory
two-year term.
The reader is taken through the training, character building and
bonds of camaraderie, before being dispatched into a bush life ripe
with fear on the border line of South-West Africa/Namibia and
Angola. From one patrol to the next we experienced the insanities
that came with the hardship as we survived with an iron will under
intense heat and heavy rainfall upon a land we scorned. Having seen
and smelled innocent death on one border, only to have three troops
from my section captured on another, and held prisoner under
deplorable conditions in Mozambique. Experiencing real life fears
in 1988, as we massed up in a mechanized armoured brigade as
Citizen Force soldiers on the South-West African/Angolan border, in
wait for an attack against Cuban and Angolan forces, with our fate
a living hell in itself.
With the army still breathing deeply in me, I left South Africa
(after having served two and a half years) for a solo backpacking
adventure across exotic parts of the world and behind the iron
curtain, which lasted five years. In 2003 I returned to an
independent Namibia to bury some tension, anxiety and hatred for a
people, a land and a life where much of my ill feeling had been
born only to fester silently for many years ahead. In so doing I
had come full circle to closing a chapter never to be lived again
and onecertainly never to be forgotten.
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