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This is a memoir translated from the Afrikaans best selling “Uiters Geheim”, by Kobus de Villiers, a South African engineer who worked on top secret projects. He recounts episodes in his life with a wry sense of humour, and older readers will recognize many of the references to childhood and growing up in the South Africa of that era.
“His accounts of what happened are hilarious. After 1994 he joined overseas companies that required his expertise. Through the years he made a major contribution to the development of new technology, but due to the strictly top secret nature of his work, his family and friends never knew where he was and what he was doing.

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From the dusty plains of Bloemfontein to the timeless hilltop village of Bargème in France, From Bloemfontein to Bargème, is a deeply personal journey across continents, cultures and memory. Through vivid recollections and reflective storytelling, Kobus de Villiers traces the winding path of a life lived beyond expectations — from a childhood shaped by the rhythms of the Free State to extraordinary travels through Europe, Africa and beyond. With honesty and gentle humour, he explores identity, belonging and the restless urge to seek more than the life that was mapped out for him. Each chapter unfolds like a carefully preserved photograph: moments of love, loss, adventure, military service and quiet reflection woven into a tapestry of experience. Along the way, landscapes become characters, memories blur with imagination, and the question of home evolves into something far greater than geography. This memoir is not only a travelogue but a meditation on time, heritage and the stories that shape us…

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Gebaseer op ‘n ware verhaal.
‘n Angswekkende gil weergalm in die donker gang af. Afgemete voetstappe klop onheilspellend op die harde teëls. Koue oë staar deur die loergat in die swaar houtdeur.
Ek is hier in Moskou Oblast se sanatorium. Hoe het ek hier beland – was dit deur die KGB of Vladlen Mikhailov se Vierde Departement? Hulle niksseggende kantore is mos hier naby, net ? paar honderd meter wes van die Kremlin, by 19 Bolshoi Znamenskylaan.
Gedagtes warrel in my agterkop. Wie het vir Gerald Bull geskiet en waarom?

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Hierdie spanningsverhaal ontvou teen die agtergrond van 1987 se onstuimige politieke klimaat. Die raaisel begin met die tragiese neerstorting van die Helderberg, gevolg deur geheimsinnige voorvalle oor verskeie lande heen: ’n joernalis verdwyn in Tsjaad, ’n Franse diplomaat sterf onder vreemde omstandighede in Botswana, en ’n geheimsinnige man verdwyn in Jerusalem. Intussen ontvang ’n afgetrede Mossad-agent ’n gekodeerde boodskap, en ’n vreemde vliegtuig land by Waterkloof. Wie stuur ’n roosblaar as waarskuwing? Wat verbind al hierdie gebeure? Is dit toevallige insidente of dele van ’n veel groter geheime komplot?

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Africa. The dark continent. Home to green forests and arid deserts. Home to the big five. Where the dust trails of vast herds of wildebeest can veil the sun. A place often misunderstood and yet still to be completely explored. Africa was also the origin of man. The origin of human exploration and the search for who we are and where we came from. The cradle of myths and legends, of stories shared around the last glowing embers of the campfire. If you have not experienced a delicate mauve sunrise stealthily advancing across the grasslands of the endless savannah, you cannot count yourself as one who has lived among the lions. This is a privilege often reserved only for the chosen few who were born there. Or those who dared to travel there. I was one of those who were lucky enough to grow up there. To experience her whims and learn to read her moods and hear the stories. Often people ask me questions, wishing to know what it was like. Over time I realised that I had to tell some of the stories, share some of our secrets, take you there, show you what it was like to grow up in a magic land.

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Dit is ’n lang en ongelooflike pad van Welkom in die Vrystaat tot by Einstein se kantoor …
Kobus de Villiers is in Bloemfontein gebore en het in Welkom skool- gegaan. Ná sy loopbaan is hy nou afgetree. Hy doen steeds konsultasiewerk en bou eksperimente in sy werkswinkel by die huis. Kobus woon saam met sy vrou op die weskus van Kanada. Hulle het ook ’n kuierplek in die suide van Frankryk.

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This is a memoir translated from the Afrikaans best selling “Uiters Geheim”, by Kobus de Villiers, a South African engineer who worked on top secret projects. He recounts episodes in his life with a wry sense of humour, and older readers will recognize many of the references to childhood and growing up in the South Africa of that era.
“His accounts of what happened are hilarious. After 1994 he joined overseas companies that required his expertise. Through the years he made a major contribution to the development of new technology, but due to the strictly top secret nature of his work, his family and friends never knew where he was and what he was doing.
Now retired and living in Canada, he reflects on his various postings and projects and all the funny adventures along the way from a dusty Free State town to living in Leonid Brezhnev’s dacha in Russia, meeting the great grandson of Henry Ford, singing “Sarie Marais” at a karaoke evening in Japan and eating a Philly-steak at a table once occupied by Bill Clinton, among many interesting experiences, to finally living in Vancouver with his French wife, and still tinkering in his garage.

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