subject: The Wanderer: Part 29 of 73 [print this page] The Wanderer by Callie Roos, motivational speaker and author
Part 29 of 73
The ambush position we chose was not far from where the bodies had lain, although they had been taken away in the meantime. It must have happened during one of the nights. Now we were waiting for the others to come. Five days and nights we had already waited!"
"These guys are not going to come," Xaba whispers."'There is a lot of movement to the south of us,' says the leader. 'Maybe we must call off the operation and go home.' It was early morning when the Impala air strike came.There was not much going on and we cleaned up quickly, moved about two kilometres further away and all of a sudden the Puma helicopters were also there.
Man, what a feeling when the choppers came. We are going home! That evening we had a wonderful party in the prison building on the base at Ondangwa. The next day was Sunday. Actually, a prison is a good place to party.There is not much you can break. You can also sleep right there; at least that way you don't cause other mischief.
'Don't you want to become a minister?' one of the guys asked me during the course of the evening. 'I do,' I answered.'I want to talk to you. ''About?' I asked. 'About God. I don't believe there is such a thing,' he said. I could see that he had had a few too many. Daring, once he's smashed, I reckoned.
