When the Buffalo fell

When Pieter Fourie wins a bursary to teachers' college, it is meant to be his way out - a hard-earned future built on discipline, study, and the hope of something better. Instead, conscription pulls him into South Africa's border war and into the ranks of 32 Battalion, the legendary unit feared as The Terrible Ones.In the heat and silence of southern Angola, Pieter is remade by battle, by the men beside him, and by a war that demands endurance long before it offers understanding. But the deepest wound is not always made in combat. As the war draws to a close and politics begin to swallow the battalion's future, Pieter and the soldiers around him are forced to confront a harsher truth: what happens to men forged for war when peace has no place for them?Set against the final years of the Border War, When the Buffalo Fell is a powerful novel of loyalty, survival, moral ambiguity, and betrayal. It is a story about the cost of war, the bonds between soldiers, and the human wreckage left behind when history moves on before the living are ready.