disturbing you so late. As I have explained, it is an emergency and Mr. Mpayipheli is in big trouble. You can help us by filling in the gaps.
N: I don'?t know what he did.
w: Did you know he worked for organized crime?
N: I don'?t want to know. He said he had another life, he said he did things that he wants to forget. In this country it wasn'?t very hard. He would have told me if I had asked him. But I didn?'t. He is a good man. There is love in this house. He is good to me and to my son. That is all I need to know.
w: Do you know if he was a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe?
N: Yes.
w: Was he?
N: Yes.
w: Did he tell you that?
N: In a way.
w: Did you know where he served?
N: He was in Tanzania and Angola and in Europe and Russia.
w: Do you know when?
N: That is all that I know.
w: But he told you that as a member of MK he?
N: No. He never told stories. I worked it out myself.
w: What do you mean?
N: Like when he talked to Pakamile about other countries.
w: Pakamile is your son?
N: Yes.
w: And this is all you had to go on?
N: Yes.
w: He never actually said he was with MK?
N: No.
[Silence? eight seconds]
w: Mrs. Nzululwazi, the favor he owed Johnny Kleintjes
N: I have already told you I don'?t know.
w: You didn?'t find it strange that Miss Kleintjes came in here and Mr. Mpayipheli immediately agrees to undertake a long and dangerous journey on her behalf?
N: Why would it be dangerous to go to Lusaka?
w: You are not aware of the data on the hard drive?
N: What data?
w: The stolen data that he has with him.
N: Why should it be dangerous?
w: There are people that want to stop him. And there are?
N: People like you?
w: No, Mrs. Nzululwazi.
N: You want to stop him.
w: We want to help. We tried at the airport, but he ran away.
N: You wanted to help.
w: We did.
N: You must leave. Now.
w: Madam
N: Get out of my house.
There is a plaque at the entrance to the air force base at Bloem-spruit, just outside Bloemfontein. In military terms it is a new plaque, being scarcely three years old. On the plaque are the words 16 SQUADRON and below that, HLASELANI. Black inhabitants of Bloemfontein know what
It is the pilots of the Sixteenth Squadron in particular who look at those words with satisfaction. It defines their purpose, separating them from the winged bus drivers and freight carriers of other squadrons, especially the other helicopter jockeys. They are an attack unit. For the first time in nearly sixty-five years of existence. Forget the quasi bombers like the Marylands, Beauforts, and Beaufighters of the Second World War. Forget the Alouette III
