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Time Bomb - A Policeman's True Story
Publisher: Tafelberg (South Africa) 2010
Softback – 192 pages
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The true story of an ordinary policeman who served in the South African Police Force at the height of apartheid. With graphic scenes of violence and sex, it exposes the realities of being in the police force in the seventies and eighties when brutality was commonplace and men didn’t cry.
Johan Marais was also a witness to and participant in several incidences of police corruption and brutality. He developed a serious drinking problem and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, but it took a suicide attempt before he would admit that he had a problem. He consulted a doctor who recommended that he should write down his incredible life story. The result is Time Bomb.
Not for the faint-hearted, this is story that needs to be told.
Johan Marais
Johan Marais joined the South African Police Force when he was an innocent farm boy of 16 years old.
His career in the police spanned more than 15 years – years which saw the worst of apartheid’s repression and violence.
As member of Koevoet and the Rhodesian Light Infantry in the late seventies, he witnessed first-hand what many only whispered about. And then, in the eighties, he joined the East Rand Riot Unit…
He currently runs his own business in the East Rand.
