In this episode I’m going to introduce you to “died-in-the-wool” Afrikaners: true men and women of the land, whose forebears came to South Africa from many parts of Europe to create a new life, a new nation. Afrikaners were always vilified as t

Episode 1 - Execution in the Morning: Revised

Sep 23rd, 2019 16m

Chapter 1 – Execution in the MorningA young journalist in 1970s South Africa, flies to Johannesburg from where he will go to Pretoria to cover the execution of an Afrikaner farm boy, Hannes van Staden, convicted of complicity in murder.

Episode 2 - Ridge of White Waters: Revised

Sep 23rd, 2019 27m 6s

Chapter 2 – Ridge of White WatersIn Johannesburg, he meets van Staden’s highly unethical lawyer, who reluctantly arranges for him to spend the night before the execution with the convicted man’s family.

Episode 3 - Adrenalin

Jul 11th, 2019 16m 30s

You think all SA cops were bad? Not quite: listen to this podcast and hear an SABC interview with the late Brig Gen Leon Mellet, former Natal Mercury crime reporter, who ended up as official spokesman for the Ministry of Law and Order. He talks

Episode 2 - Ridge of White Waters

Jun 16th, 2019 27m 6s

In which Adam arrives in Johannesburg to keep an appointment with Van Staden’s unethical lawyer who had reluctantly promised to arrange for him to spend the night before the execution with the convicted man’s family.Adam meets with the lawyer,

Episode 1 - Introduction and "Execution in the Morning"

Jun 4th, 2019 16m

In this opening episode, I provide some background to my "based-on-truth" novel "Train in the Distance", the political climate in South Africa at the time, the tensions, hopes, dreams and fears of campaigning journalist, Adam Marks, and those w

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