The Harvest Of My Times

By Malose Nyatlo

In the first week of May 1977, South Africans woke to the strangest tale of a bank robbery in the town of Krugersdorp, north-west of Johannesburg: a bank was robbed in the most daring fashion; there was no visible break-in and yet the bank vault was almost empty. As the week wore on it was discovered that the bank vault was accessed from an underground tunnel dug from the neighbouring building, which was rented by the thieves. The entire world reported the robbery as the first of its kind. The robbers left no clue behind to lead the police in their investigations, the world was told.

In the same week, in the remote village of Ga-Monare, in the northern part of the country, villagers woke up to loads of mint coins dumped along the riverbank in two huge safes. They had never seen such a quantity of money before and alerted the school principal of a primary school in the neighbouring village of Ga-Rapadi. The principal brought along his thirteen-year-old son, Markz, to the scene.

Forty-two years down the line, in 2019, Markz decided to tell this story, his story. Using elements of fiction to recreate the gang which robbed the bank and its modus operandi, he also tells the story about his growing up in the rural parts of the Northern Transvaal

This is the story of power, greed, pain, courage, determination and redemption, with a setting of the era up to 1988.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1713164728
• ISBN13: 9781713164722
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"