Life at Kandahar Afghanistan I was flown from Dubai straight to Kandahar, where I would be based and work from the military base at the Kandahar airport. Kandahar International Airport is 16 km southeast of Kandahar city. It is one of the largest airports in Afghanistan, and the largest military base capable of housing up to 250 aircraft of all
Arrested in Dubai I landed in Dubai and was met by my company’s representatives. As I did not have an Afghanistan visa and work permit yet, I had to stay in my hotel in Dubai until that was sorted out. This was nearly the end of my Afghanistan adventure even before it began. On the seventh floor of the hotel was a
After my ‘Hole in the Wall’ disaster, I was living in East London permanently. I was doing investigations and very few VIP Protection assignments in Johannesburg. Only when some of my contacts in Johannesburg needed my help would I go there. During 2008, I had a call from my friend from Cape Town. He was working in Afghanistan at the time and
A personal account of a community upliftment project on the Wild Coast that ended in unexpected loss and a long legal struggle. After returning from Iraq, I went back into working VIP Protection. I joined up with a friend of mine that had an established VIP Protection Training School and I got involved with the training in weapons, unarmed combat skills and
From Baghdad to Basrah — A vivid, boots-on-the-ground chapter by PSD operator Andre Els In the meantime, there was a war in the Middle East after the 9/11 attack on America in 2003. I heard that there were a lot of South Africans operating as contractors in Iraq and earning good money. The contractors were mostly South Africa's former security forces personnel that
The offer I received was from an old gentleman. A Geologist involved with investors listening to his expertise on certain areas, for instance, where to mine. At this time, they wanted to start a mining operation in Swaziland and he wanted me to do the Security for the mine. He wanted me to survey the area and give him feedback on all the
After three months in my own Touring with Protection business, I received a call from a very wealthy businessman in Umtata (now known as Mthata). He said he heard about me from a police friend of his and that he would like to talk with me concerning business. I met with him, and he offered me a job at his company as his
What was also happening in the Police was that a lot of white senior officers were seeing their posts being advertised and at the same time, they were offered voluntary retrenchment packages. It resulted in a lot of these senior officers accepting the package. The result was a huge lack of expertise in different sectors of the police. I was thirty-five years old
It was the dawn of a new South Africa. A new Government came into being. A lot of changes were happening really fast. It also affected the Police Service. One change was that all the specialised units were incorporated into one unit known as the Organised Crime Investigation Office. At the Intelligence office, we would identify an investigation officer working at the Organised
I was told to identify a house, to serve as a covert office, where we (the guys I indicated that I had identified in Chapter 22) could work from. After I found the right house, the four of us moved there. We started working on our strategies for various operations from the house. I was still an Inspector (warrant officer) in rank and busy
Amouré Kleu, born in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, enjoyed a dynamic career spanning journalism, law, and paralegal practice before retiring in 2019.
First published at age 15 in August 1974, Amouré in 2018 decided to study creative writing. She did the Unlocking Creativity course with The Writers’ studio in Sydney and found a spark that ignited her dream to write into a goal that she would write and publish a novel.
Having always had a very vivid imagination, she now finds herself in the enviable position of being able to pursue her endless passion for creative writing. She loves taking long beach walks at sunrise. She loves cooking and finds that it alleviates stress when she experiments creatively with different flavours, cuisines, and textures. – Amouré now lives on the Gold Coast of Australia.
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