Pieter sits in a coffee shop in Pretoria and thinks about all the white South Africans who had been killed while serving their country during Apartheid, only for the de Klerk government to hand the country over to the ANC. Through the coffee shop window he witnesses a road rage incident between an...
Pieter was a loose cannon. He did not belong to an ultra-right wing militant party. He took aim at a black man at the nearest point of the square to him, but the shotgun refused to fire. The Lieutenant carefully took his weapon apart and cleaned it like he did daily. Again, he attempted to find his...
Pieter did not believe in reconciliation with the new government. He did not see himself like Apartheid era Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha, who went on to serve in the first democratic government under Mandela. Nor did he see himself as former Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok, who washed...
Pieter thinks through the story of the assassination of former South African President Hendrik Verwoerd, who was stabbed to death by the liberal-minded Dimitri Tsafendes in Parliament in 1966. The world saw Verwoerd as a pure racist. Pieter’s parents saw Verwoerd as a ‘great man’ Pieter takes aim...
Pieter gets to the fifth floor of an apartment building to carry out his evil deed but he has a fear of heights and ends up on his hands and knees. He battles to breath. Was God trying to stop him? Like Mandela, he hears a voice in his head telling him that once he reaches the fifth floor, the...
Thabo Mbeki says that unlike Zimbabwe, land invasions is not a part of South Africa’s culture. Pieter is become more anti-black as the days go by. He begins to wonder what would he have done differently if he was President of South Africa? In a dream, Pieter sees a woman who he thinks is Lindiwe...
Thabo Mbeki takes over from Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. Mandela and Mbeki have a heart-to-heart chat and Madiba tells his successor that it is as if someone had infiltrated his mind to give him good advice. The voice tells Mandela that she will continue to guide him but can’t help...
Again, Mandela stands firm against his Defence Minister Joe Modise, in terms of putting the army on to the streets, following right wing resistance to his inauguration. Modise is adamant that an assassination attempt on Mandela’s life will come sooner rather than later. Mandela was still in his...