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K is the founder of JKLS Africa, an exclusive legal consultancy specialising in

legal risk reduction in African jurisdictions based in South Africa and a frequent
speaker on legal forensics on Voice of America. K also wrote five other books on
business, law and counter terrorism. His favourite pastime is Military History and

particularly the American Civil War which he finds much less boring than law.

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Email K at: meanstreets45@gmail.com

JKLS Africa: http://www.jklsafrica.com/index.php

Extract from K's eBook Mean Streets - Life in the Apartheid Police

On Religion

The SAP had no sense of humour with regard to religion, and was in fact held it

in very high repute. Religion is not the same thing as faith in my eyes. Faith is
personal. Religion is the outward worship of a god and therefore of no value to

anyone without faith. The Chaplains were all commissioned officers (and thus
not to be trusted and to be avoided at all costs), and there were many jokes

about them.

Every time we went on border duty we were presented with a pocket Bible with
the Police Star on its cover, and a nice message from someone important on the

inside. They were stored in a box next to the Chaplain. I collected six of them
through the years though almost all are lost. They came in differing colours and

languages and included the New Testament and Psalms only.

There was a rumour that one of these pocket Bibles actually stopped a bullet

during a contact (shootout/fire fight) in Rhodesia. I doubt that because I tested
the rumour by firing clean through one with an AK47…much to my disgust. We

never had bullet proof vests by the way—those came after my time. Still, I

diligently carried my issued Bible with me. Just in case you understand! Survival
is a terrible concept.

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