Time Bomb

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Johan Marais. Time Bomb

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In the dark days of apartheid a young schoolboy joins the South African Police Force. It is a time when brutality is commonplace and men don’t cry.

Over a period of fifteen years Johan Marais is exposed to extreme violence as he is transferred to Koevoet and later becomes a member of the East Rand Riot Unit. Living with bloodshed and hostility on a daily basis, Marais develops a serious drinking problem. Not realising that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, he spirals down into a world of corruption and decadence.

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When I had been on patrol service for a few months, I reported for one of my frequent night shifts. It was winter, and Van der Merwe, a guy of more or less my own age, was the driver that evening. It could get very quiet in the early hours, so we had a portable FM radio with us to listen to music. The patrol vehicle was a large, clumsy old Dodge bakkie.

Well, of course I wasn’t okay. My ego was wounded, my uniform in tatters, I was covered with bruises and grazes, and, to rub salt into my wounds, the radio had landed next to my head and was blaring: “Another one bites the dust”.

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