Special Report Transcript Episode 78, Section 5, Time 30:06

My life since then has been very, very difficult. It’s had a big element of self destruction. // ‘Borderliners: The Scars of War’ // There are many reasons for war, just and unjust; but ultimately war is about hunting and being hunted. War is about killing and being killed. And in the bush of Angola and Namibia the mighty South African army hunted and killed efficiently for more than 15 years. Those who did the hunting were usually young men, pressed ripe quickly through basic training, taking most of them from the school benches to the border trenches in just a few months. But for many of these boys the real enemy was not the one they searched for in the bush or shot at from the air. That enemy they left behind dead or alive as is the nature of war. There was another enemy, that enemy is the one of memory.

Notes: John Deagon; Audio: 'Hou my vas korporaal' (James Phillips); SA troops at war

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