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Gert Strydom, 23 october 2013
The Soldier [33]
“We have escaped! We are free! We are flying away,” Maria cheers and at that moment the radio crackles in the earphones and the control tower tries to make contact with the helicopter. For a moment Ryno considers switching off the radio-set but decides against it.
Moments later they hear (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 8 october 2013
The Soldier [32]
When the group comes back to the place where they had camped, the rain has stopped. Some of the Unita-soldiers dig a small hole and after a while they light a small fire with wet wood.
They celebrate and a brandy bottle is given from on to the other, while they are shivering around the small fire. (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 4 october 2013
The Soldier [31]
Early the next morning they walk the last few kilometres to Cuito Canavale, where they set up a position in a wooded aria near to the enemy air field.
Maria accompanies them when Ryno and one of the soldiers move nearer to enemy airport to do some scouting.
The three of them sneaks from bush (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 4 october 2013
The Soldier [31]
Early the next morning they walk the last few kilometres to Cuito Canavale, where they set up a position in a wooded aria near to the enemy air field.
Maria accompanies them when Ryno and one of the soldiers move nearer to enemy airport to do some scouting.
The three of them sneaks from bush (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 26 september 2013
The Soldier [30]
Early the next morning Ryno is testing the six Unita-soldiers that have been given as a team to him. Equipped with their firearms they jog a few kilometres into the field, where he put up some beer bottles as targets to test the shooting abilities of the men.
There AK-47 sub-machineguns are in (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 18 september 2013
The Soldier [29]
A lot later they feel that they are being watched and when they look up, it is into the faces of Roberto and his officers. “Thank you for the good work that you are doing here,” Roberto remarks.
“Everything has got a price with you. I wonder how you are going to pay us, for this. Roberto, (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 13 september 2013
The Soldier [28]
Ryno can hardly keep himself from assaulting Roberto Chipenda, where he sits in that man’s office. Two soldiers are however at both sides of the chair in which Ryno is sitting and their rifles are pointing to him.
It is clear that the building where they are had been a school at a time, as there (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 10 september 2013
The Soldier [27]
Ryno takes the Heckler and Koch 417 attaches a new magazine to it and cocks the weapon, before he puts the safety catch on.
“Can’t we do anything to help the animals,” Maria wants to know and her eyes burns worried in his. To both of them the killing of the animals is pure madness
”I (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 28 august 2013
The Soldier [26]
Although the old dilapidated lorry bumps along while chickens are cackling and goats are bleating on the back of it and the sun is scorching Ryno and Maria, Maria is happy that they do not have to walk like the previous day.
Her feet is not completely healed and the walking of the previous day, (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 13 august 2013
The Soldier [25]
“What do you want from me,” Petrofski wants to know from Ryno while he buttons his pants with shaking fingers. “Do not move, Petrofski,” Ryno remarks before he removes the makrof pistol from the holster on Petrofski’s belt.
There is shock on Petrofski’s face, when he notices that (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 25 july 2013
The Soldier [24]
It is night again when she is brought to the office where Petrof Petrofski, Carlos and the three black men are waiting on her. “I see you are doing better,” Carlos remarks smiling friendly and she gives him a look that sends him straight to hell.
“Maria, we have let you come to travel a (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 19 july 2013
The Soldier [23]
Maria smells the sweat of the five men that hangs heavy in the stuffy room around her and the vomit pushes up in her throat, so that she has to force herself to swallow to stop the bile that is rising.
She is on her hands on the floor of the room, with her legs in the air and her feet against the (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 10 july 2013
The Soldier [22]
The Russian throws the electrical cord to one of the corners of the room and draws Maria on her hair to the middle of the room.
“It is clear that you are an enemy agent. The time for games has passed. Unless you start talking and confess to everything, things are going to get rather nasty (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 26 june 2013
The Soldier [21]
Maria Ramos tries to stop shivering, when her jacket is pulled off her shoulders while she is loaded into one of the Jeeps on the quay.
There is a cold wind blowing suddenly out of the direction of the sea and the ride in the open Jeeps makes her even colder.
She is happy for the darkness (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 19 june 2013
The Soldier [20]
It is a humid hot evening, but a cool breeze is blowing over the beach were Maria Ramos is watching the lights of Luanda from a big rock.
It must be hours that she is sitting there, as she first realises that its high tide when a big wave breaks against the rock splashing her wet.
For a moment (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 11 june 2013
The Soldier [19]
They are barely half an hour in the air with the ‘bosbok” military light aircraft, when an Angolan Mig-21 appears from the naught telling them in broken English to change direction to where Luanda is situated.
Beneath them there are broken veldt with trees and some hillocks and the “bosbok” (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 5 june 2013
The Soldier [18]
It is cool in the shade of the blue gum trees that are planted next to the river where they are eating some of the sandwiches that Maria had prepared earlier that morning, while sitting with their feet in the river.
“What made you decide to follow such a dangerous profession? There are many (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 30 may 2013
The Soldier [17]
After all the years it’s still difficult for Maria to talk about that tragic day, which had shattered Angola forever for her. She swallows at the knob in her throat, before she draws Ryno down on the grass next to the fountain and the Venus statue.
“My dad had been a good person,” she (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 22 may 2013
The Soldier [16]
The sweet smell of sugarcane is suddenly replaced by the odour of pine trees and when the road meanders up a hillock, they suddenly see pine forests as far as the eye can see.
“It would be the easiest thing to set a ambush down there somewhere,” Ryno remarks and he notices that Maria is caught (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 16 may 2013
The Soldier [15]
The short time that they are still together before Ryno have got to leave is for both of them like a great holiday. In the few day that Ryno is still recovering, Maria takes leave and secretly they explore the river with a canoe, catch some fish and disappear into the veldt, where they have picnic (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 9 may 2013
The Soldier [14]
When Ryno open his eyes he finds himself in a strange bed, without remembering how he got into it and there is a strange lady with him in the bed.
For a long moment he watches her in the moonlight and there is something vaguely know about her, where she lies with her back to him.
Her black (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 3 may 2013
The Soldier [13]
There is a light knock on the door of Maria’s bedroom and when she opens it, she looks into Roberto’s smiling face.
“You lot are early,” she remarks worried and her eyes flash to the watch on his wrist. “I see that the South African have arrived,” he answers and walks into the room. (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 25 april 2013
The Soldier [12]
Ryno cocks the Heckler and Koch 417 rifle and he notices the South African moving around the small bush with the AK-47 in his hands, as they from both sides approach the place where they had seen the woman.
The sound of the gun’s lock is loud in his ears, but its clear that she does not hear it, (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 18 april 2013
The Soldier [11]
When Ryno and the South African reach the river they find shelter against the flames in the water and they swim through the strong current to the other side.
It is four o’clock when they reach the Cassinga-Lubango road. They watch the road for a short while, before they keep to the bushes next (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 11 april 2013
The Soldier [10]
Mahambo is still busy at the grave, when two explosions come suddenly from a southern direction. He almost looses his balance as he treads skew and sees that the whole world is burning.
When he takes his gaze away from the flames he realizes that all the people around him, except the KGB Colonel, (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 3 april 2013
The Soldier [9]
Ryno watches the prisoners while they are digging two graves in the graveyard and he is glad to see the sunburned South-African, throwing one spade after the other from the open grave
By noon both graves have been dug and the prisoners are marched back to the camp, where they stand in a row at the (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 28 march 2013
The Soldier [8]
For long moments Maria Ramos looks at the rising sun through the kitchen window of the villa, where it hangs in almost a romantic atmosphere over the bush-veldt landscape.
She pours herself a cup of hot coffee and watches the river, through the lenses of a pair of binoculars where it is about three (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 22 march 2013
The Soldier [7]
It is still dark when Ryno wakes up and quickly rolls up his sleeping bag and throws his backpack over his shoulders, before he takes care not to leave any indication of his presence.
He wonders if he should dare to sneak to the sickbay or the jail, but he cannot dare to betray his presence before (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 22 march 2013
The Soldier [7]
It is still dark when Ryno wakes up and quickly rolls up his sleeping bag and throws his backpack over his shoulders, before he takes care not to leave any indication of his presence.
He wonders if he should dare to sneak to the sickbay or the jail, but he cannot dare to betray his presence before (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 14 march 2013
The Soldier [6]
It’s five o’clock in the morning and Dino Mahambo is drinking big sips of strong coffee, that his adjutant, Laranja had made for him. Although it is still biting cold, Mahambo sweats where the group of officers are gather under the sharp lights in his office.
Mahambo wipes the sleep from his (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 14 march 2013
The Soldier [6]
It’s five o’clock in the morning and Dino Mahambo is drinking big sips of strong coffee, that his adjutant, Laranja had made for him. Although it is still biting cold, Mahambo sweats where the group of officers are gather under the sharp lights in his office.
Mahambo wipes the sleep from his (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 7 march 2013
The Soldier [5]
It only takes Ryno seconds to remove the telescopic sight and noise suppressor from the Heckler and Koch 417 and to zip it in the watertight bag, before he climbs down from the tree.
It feels to him as if the eyes of every person in the enemy camp are looking at him, while he moves between the graves (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 28 february 2013
The Soldier [4]
It is some hysteric screaming that wakes Dino Mahambo from his afternoon sleep, where he dozed away in the comfortable chair behind his desk.
The screaming sounds like the shrill screaming of women at the top of their voices and what is worse is that it is becoming louder. What is more, Dino Mahambo (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 28 february 2013
The Soldier [4]
It is some hysteric screaming that wakes Dino Mahambo from his afternoon sleep, where he dozed away in the comfortable chair behind his desk.
The screaming sounds like the shrill screaming of women at the top of their voices and what is worse is that it is becoming louder. What is more, Dino Mahambo (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 15 february 2013
The Soldier [3]
From the cover of the Blue gum tree Ryno can observe the enemy camp clearly; where it lies to the west, northwest and southwest of him and runs along the eastern bank of the river.
That Cassinga had been a mining town is quite clear to Ryno, when he looks at the shaft towers of the dilapidated iron (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 5 february 2013
The Soldier [2]
The wind hits the rain with whipping venom in Ryno Burger’s face where he gazes into the night at the open hatch of the Hercules. The heavy weather is unusual for a late February 1983 summer and the South African bush war still rages on and the aeroplane drones forth into the night deep over hostile (... więcej)
Gert Strydom, 21 january 2013
The Soldier [1]
Maria Ramos feels stiff and wet with sweat behind the steering wheel of the 1970-model Peugeot; when she drives nearer tot the Cassinga camp from the direction of Lubango and stops in front of a gate manned by armed guards.
Maria wipes her long black hair from her classical beautiful face and both (... więcej)
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25 april 2024
sam53
przychodzi czas i trzeba zdecydować...
24 april 2024
jeśli tylko
nadszedł ten czas..
24 april 2024
Weronika
Sekwencja ram obrazów z dzieciństwa.
24 april 2024
violetta
Fajnie się czyta, superowe pisanie.
24 april 2024
Adam Pietras (Barry Kant)
Dzięki! : )
24 april 2024
Czy ja wiem? Tu chodzi o to że fajna jest przyroda
24 april 2024
Eva T.
"Życie w arcydziele"? Pisownia irytuje.
24 april 2024
Fajna próbka. Czyta sie dobrze. Pozdrawiam :)
24 april 2024
Spacer z bocianem ;)
22 april 2024
Martwa ale z wyjątkiem strzelistych bluźnierstw.
20 april 2024
:) Dobranocka:)
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kb
chwilą... jedyną :))
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