The Wind Blows and the River Flows

by Vincent Gray

Overview

In this novella Joab Badenhorst as a white South African male finds himself literally thrown into the cauldron of war, fighting on the wrong side of history, first in the counter-insurgency bush war on the Namibian-Angolan border and then in the Angolan civil war. Unable to extricate himself he experiences at first hand the existential futility of his life in a Universe ruled by contingency.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154581162
Publisher:	Vincent Gray
Publication date:	10/07/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	173 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

As a son of a miner I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. I grew up on the East Rand mining town of Boksburg. I matriculated from Boksburg High School. After high school I was conscripted into the South African Defence Force for compulsory national military service when I was 17 years old. After my military service I went to the University of the Witwatersrand. After graduating with a BSc honours degree I worked for a short period for the Department of Agriculture in Potchefstroom as an agronomist. As an obligatory member of the South African Citizen Miltary Force, I was called up to do 3 month camps on the 'Border' which was the theatre of the so-called counter insurgency 'Bush War'. In between postgraduate university studies I also worked as a wage clerk on the South African Railways and as a travelling chemical sales rep. I am currently working as a molecular biologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, where I am employed to do teaching and research. My students and I are doing research into the genomics of strange and weird animals known as entomopathogenic nematodes.