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Border-line Insanity: A National Serviceman's Story

Border-line Insanity: A National Serviceman's Story


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Border-Line Insanity offers the reader an insight into the life and times of a conscripted white soldier in the ranks of the South African Army during the border war fought in SWA/Namibia and Angola. In 1984, as an 18-year-old high school graduate, the author was thrust into a world of strict order, discipline, character building and a subtle brainwashing that moulded him into the soldier he needed to be for his mandatory two-years National Service, followed by ten years as a reservist in the Citizen Force. The author takes the reader through his training and explains the unbreakable bonds of comradeship that developed between the members of his platoon. After the completion of basic training he experienced a spell of peacekeeping duty in a black South African township that had been subjected to political unrest. From there his platoon was deployed to the SWA/Namibian-Angolan border where they learned to live rough in the bush and where the author saw and smelt death and experienced the insanities that went with it. The platoon was then deployed to South Africa's border with Mozambique to stem the flow of refugees where three of his comrades were captured and imprisoned by the Mozambique army. Called up as a Citizen Force soldier in 1988, the author joined an armoured battle group that had been hurriedly formed to repel two Cuban armoured brigades that were threatening to invade SWA/Namibia east of Ruacana. Fortunately, when both forces were on the brink of a major battle, a peace deal between South Africa, Cuba and Angola, was being signed in New York, so Cuba withdrew its forces. This signalled the end of the Border War. The title is illustrated with photographs illegally taken by the author who covertly carried a camera with him wherever he went, despite it being a chargeable offence. This provides what is probably the best published photographic record of South African National Service.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781919854243
  • Publisher: Galago Publishing Pty Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Galago Publishing Pty Ltd
  • Height: 242 mm
  • Sub Title: A National Serviceman's Story
  • Width: 168 mm
  • ISBN-10: 191985424X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 570 gr


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