In a Different Time: The Inside Story of the Delmas FourThis book tells the story of four young South Africans who embark on a mission that will ultimately take them to Death Row. They are a highly trained and experienced assassination squad reporting directly to Chris Hani.The narrative details their infiltration into the country, their operations, arrest and subsequent trial. These men are the foot soldiers who sacrificed everything. As their trial unfolds with their attorney fighting to save them from the gallows, so too does the story of their own lives and the choices they make. The story is set in a South Africa gripped by unrest and political tension, when the ANC was in exile and repression at its height.It tells of the extraordinary lengths people go to in order to fight for what they believe, and the acts people will commit to preserve the status quo. The characters are linked by bizarre coincidence and tragedy in a true account narrated by their attorney.Woven through the narrative is the construction of a bomb and its journey towards its target, and the circumstances which enable that meeting. |
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Page 106
... Delmas . Apart from its residents , not many people are familiar with Delmas . The town goes quietly about its business as a small agricultural centre with a predominantly Afrikaans population that is conservative and introverted . Had ...
... Delmas . Apart from its residents , not many people are familiar with Delmas . The town goes quietly about its business as a small agricultural centre with a predominantly Afrikaans population that is conservative and introverted . Had ...
Page 107
... Delmas is the State's choice . I went to the circuit court in Delmas a number of times when the big Delmas Treason Trial started there in 1985 . In all the years that the trial ran , there was only one proposition on which the ...
... Delmas is the State's choice . I went to the circuit court in Delmas a number of times when the big Delmas Treason Trial started there in 1985 . In all the years that the trial ran , there was only one proposition on which the ...
Page 203
... Delmas along the highway past the airport . Bheki has brought music for the car , Beethoven's seventh symphony . The planes are coming in bringing commercial travellers from Cape Town and Durban , and excited tourists from Europe to see ...
... Delmas along the highway past the airport . Bheki has brought music for the car , Beethoven's seventh symphony . The planes are coming in bringing commercial travellers from Cape Town and Durban , and excited tourists from Europe to see ...
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