Kraal by Fenek Solère

Author:Fenek Solère [Solère, Fenek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912975112
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd.
Published: 2019-06-04T22:00:00+00:00

Gijs escaped by motorbike north eastwards, first along the highway to Pretoria and then westwards by the back roads to Rustenberg where he met up with a company of the Volkseer, the People’s Army, high up in the Magaliesberg mountains. They were a mixed crew of refugees, drawn up in a semi-circle on a windswept hillside crowned with rocky crags. His orders were to lead the column along the track ways through the hills above the Hartbeesport dam. They were to avoid confrontation because their number included surgeons, engineers and other key workers whose lives were to be preserved in order that they could contribute to the new society that was planned. From on high, the Ystergarde looked down on the burst concrete of the Transvaal yachting marina, the waters having swept through the Welwitschia tourist market, washing away the tacky trinkets and souvenirs.

‘Be careful,’ Gijs warned as he assumed personal responsibility for his charges, ‘the water in the lower reaches is full of bilharzia, drink only from your bottles until I say it is safe!’

There was not much talking. Silence had fallen upon them all. Despite the soft, rich-scented twilight streaming in over the hills this was no time to speak of beauty and the splendours of nature. Sadness, fear and hate welled up like a cankerous tumour in each and every heart as they strung out along the escarpment, moving silently in the stillness of the African dusk. Sometimes the women would cry for their broken lives, the lost safety and the end of the security their forefathers had created in this place.

‘It feels like the End Times,’ some would whimper. Widows would weep for the men who had died defending them and their children, the hard echo of their sorrow bouncing off the valley stones like the chirp and squeak of wild dogs.

Moving through the fringe lands of the Kalahari, Gijs with revolver in hand and night vision goggles jammed down over his face, felt like a modern day Moses leading his people toward the Promised Land. Behind, miles away, dark figures emerged over the mountain top.

The pursuit had begun.

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