So goes the trailer to The Wild Geese. attempts to glorify one of the murder and torture machines which has proved more durable than European fascism.. South African apartheid.
The film takes its title from the Geese Club Johannesburg, set up and run hy Colonel Mad Mike' Heare best remembered for his part TESSACTI Stanleyville in Zaire of 80,000 ushered President Mobutu to IDEAL Doubtless this qualified Hoare to be employed by the Film's producer Fusan Lloyd, as technical adviser.
Let's take a closer look at ideal cuminina some at the Wil Geese Club members Danny: The South African soldier is one of the woeld's best could thousand franc note down in the jungle and one of our boys would run through a thousand rebels to get at it"
Jock Carton-Barber,Houre's old sergeant major CUTCHES Club: having LANIEMEN Soldiers gentlemen. We're doing a job that's all. Butif we were to fight the IKA, l'd go in a hurry. Wouldn't you?
The IRA are bastards. We were exterminators, that's whar we were. We killed rats and cockroaches (relerence to the Sinhas) They're (IRA) no Fifty per ocat of the white Troops in the Rhodesian forces are mercenaries — some of them carne vin the Wild Geese Club.
Here is Walter Compton. 27-year-old Australian who had 18 months in Vietnam with the Australian forces:
"Put it this way. If 1 shot a which Zealand or anywhere else in the black In Australia world, they'd put me inside jail for 20 yeurs. Here I can do it legally,* One Rhodesian guiner mercenary finds killing a sexual drug: 'He will see a Han caname a tactica and open up with his machine gun.
The slugs are chopping up the nice over the man's head at nathen lower, but too far behind. Now the gunner has the range, and is coming up on the min's heels.the moment the man blew up, the gunner had an Already a significant number of the Rhodessan mercengovernment know titis and Rey MANI HE SALE CONTI and assistance is given to the recruitment service personnel on a contraci basis."
Field Marshal Lord Carver, who was designated to take over a proposed KINKED government, bodyguards hired from company called KMS.
This company is noted for its right-wing connections and an abdity to plack its employees straighe out of the army's elite Carver's bodyguard, ex-SAS Major Andrew Nightingale. They're South AECTLCHNTICS offspring of white apartheid.
The ratioshin between the two was aimply illustrated when Evan Lloyd, producer, placed a large advert in the Johannesburg African Government, African Defence Force for their The film has considerable promotional advertising from the SADF, being used to sell Defence Bonds. The bonds are used to finance the helicopter war in Namibia. It is in these invested Eóm.
The same theatre where the World Premiere of The Wild Corse was held was inter used for a charity showing of the film. the proceeds going to the South African Defence Fund.
which spends most of its energy Ille South African military bases in Namibia, TORTURE In 1976 Bill white conscript, deserted from the SADE and spilled the beans of retired frictally kadornas methodset their torture operation*.
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When Euan Lloyd seeks to mercenaries in drama, together with several million dollars and slick shooting, he disguises the shadowy hands behind the mercenaries and * This article was writen with the aid of the London South Africum War Resisters Group. The group consists of military refugees who aim to provide a support base for the growing isaber of South African youth who are resisting their forced in the South American mercenaries in Zimbabwe — still hunkering after the days of the sluve-owning Confederacy.
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*THE Wild Geese is on its way. The biggest, most star-studded movie ever made in South Africa opens all over the country on Wednesday.* — South African