Radio(1:21): “…ons het beweging…” (…We’ve got movement…)

Driver(1:29)(driving through a pothole): “…aah, hierdie gat is breed…”(aah, what a large pothole)

Man on back seat(1:31): “steek! steek! steek!” (stick it! stick it! stick it!)(Afrikaans slang term similar to “floor it!”)

Unknown occupant(1:34): “daarsy!” (here we are/ here we go/this is it)

Unkown occupant(1:40): “Daar staan die wit bakkie. Daar anderkant die pad” (there’s the white bakkie. Across the road) (we refer to a pickup as a “bakkie”)

front passenger(1:44): “Wag! Wag! Hier kom mense!” (Wait! Wait! there are people coming)(he is probably referring to civilians)

passenger2(interviewed)(1:56): “Hy’t ‘n gun! Hy’t ‘n gun!” (He’s got a gun! He’s got a gun!)

man approaching overturned vehicle(2:20): “Klim uit! Klim uit die fokken kar!” (get out! get out the fucking car!) (he is telling one of the hijackers to get out of the burning vehicle)

unknown man(2:54): inaudible

[Actually, if you listen to the narrator, this is a special task force. The “normal police doing a day’s work” look very different. The latter account, by-and-large, for the highest murder rate in the world, not to mention the lowest conviction rates.–IM]

I’m just very surprised at how stoic they are, I suppose. Maybe I’m just in the midst of the metrosexual generation of males, but this startled me a little bit last night. I thought that these kind of guys only existed in hookey action films that I made fun of because of their masculinity (well, OVER masculinity).

Maybe I need to rethink some things..

Thanks for the compliment. You’re not too dainty yourself when defending your own.

[Good observation; the Afrikaners are very tough, brave, military men.–IM]