Dogtag Memories

A raw, darkly humorous memoir that follows one conscripts chaotic journey through South Africas military machine during the border war.

Drafted into the Defence Force in 1977 as a carefree seventeen-year-old, Jon Goetzsches tranquil schooldays were abruptly replaced by the brutal regimentation of army life. What began as naive indifference soon spiralled into a struggle against auth...