It was also a country that suffered duplicitous interference by South Africa’s politicians and their ‘Détente debacle’. The country faced an armed onslaught from foreign trained and supported ‘liberation movements’ that enjoyed safe haven in hostile neighbouring countries, a vicious and misleading propaganda onslaught spearheaded by the West, a hypocritical United Nations who sought to punish the country for protecting its citizens and defending its borders from armed aggression, and a military supply chain from the East. Andre Scheepers and his colleagues in the Rhodesian Special Air Service (SAS) were such men. Some went on to become part of a small elite unit of men who dared to win. Many hero-warriors were born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), a small African country the world chose to castigate. It is a book that proves that some men are born to become warriors, others to become heroes. It is a book of immense bravery and sacrifice against incredible odds. It is a book about soldiers fighting a war they were not allowed to win a war to save a country from itself. It is a book that left me breathless, angered and saddened. It chronicles the final years of a very special clandestine military unit, and a haemorrhaging and dying country. Hannes Wessels’ latest book ‘We Dared to Win’ is a book no serious student of war in Africa should be without. I know people, huh? White people.By Colonel Eeben Barlow Africa Unauthorized ![]() Relief agencies are useless, the hospitals are overwhelmed. Who do you think got you out of jail, huh? That makes us partners! The moment you tell anyone about it, your life is absolutely worthless! The only reason you're still alive is because you haven't told anyone where it is. What are you gonna do about it, huh? Look, the right stone can buy anything - safety, information, even freedom, but a big stone does not stay secret for very long. To who, and for what price my friend? You need my help whether you like it or not. Do you realize that that diamond is his only chance of getting his family out of here.ĭon't tell me you're going to try and sell it yourself. You know Solomon thinks his son will be a doctor someday? Maybe his baby dies in that camp, maybe his daughter gets raped. And if that's not you, and you're not really gonna help me, and we're not really gonna screw, then why don't you get the *fuck* out of my face, and let me do my work? Which is to say that I need someone to go *on* record. But it's not going to be enough to make it stop! I'm sick of writing about victims but it's all I can fucking do! Because I need names, I need dates, I need pictures, I need bank accounts. Sure, it might make some people cry if they read it, maybe even write a check. See here I've got dead mothers, I've got severed limbs, but it's *nothing* new. It's like one of those infomercials with African kids with swollen bellies and flies in their eyes. "In the ninety degree heat, Solomon Vandy drops to his knees, rattling the wire with his powerful hands." We go back to Free Town, and ask Colonel Coetzee how he wishes to thank his business associates. Now, you know who I am, all right? You don't wanna make trouble for me or my friends right? Now look, why don't I just look the other way, all right, you take one or two of those stones, you get something lekker for the wife, or maybe the mistress all right? We solve the problem right here? I'm good friends with Colonel Coetzee, Colonel Coetzee would not be pleased that you've interfered with his business. No, no, listen here my friend, listen here all right. , who as you know, are allowed to cross the border in order to get into the grazing grounds. Uh-I've got a letter from the Minister of Interior, and a Liberian visa as well. Hey, Archer, next time, you bring satellite TV, eh? I wanna see Baywatch. So many I not know what do with them all. So I think I go to them government then, huh? Them government, at least them go pay me, huh? Then you get one more dead body instead of aeroplane way full with grenade launchers. Maybe I could just kill you and take away what you bring back! Then your boys then can use one ol' rotten AK them against them government troops and their new weapons them, huh? God left this place a long time ago.Īre you craze? You get to pay me first for them. Sometimes I wonder, will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize. ![]() Dad was decapitated and hung from a hook in the barn. That's a - That's a polite way of putting it, ja. You Americans - you Americans love to talk about your feelings, huh? So, what does that mean? What? You've got a thing for messed up vets now?
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