Fatal Destination - Blood Will Have Blood

FATAL RENDEZVOUSIn 1978 five men die in a shack in Soweto, South Africa, during a skirmish betweenthe South African Security Police and Umkhonto weSizwe, the armed wing of theAfrican National Congress. A year earlier they had all travelled from Durban to Johannesburgon a bus, totally unknown to each other. Isaiah Zuma: a nineteen-year old Zulu man destinedfor the Witwatersrand gold mines to find work and provide for his destitute mother.
Tooambitious to work as a miner, he begins stealing explosives from the mine and selling them. Wary of the dangers in this illegal industry, he approaches Umkhonto weSizwe. Acceptedinto the organization, Isaiah works with another operative making bombs and bombingtargets to publicize the organization's struggle for freedom. Bala Desai: a young Indian tailorwho inherits his uncle's tailoring business in Pageview, Johannesburg, begins a new life with hiswife and daughter, only to have the government forcibly move his business to the unknownOriental Plaza and his family to the new Indian township of Lenasia.
But Bala is determinednot to lose his inheritance. Bogdan Vodnik: a Yugoslav immigrant is hired as a buyer for theDeep Reef Gold Mine. He is also an accomplished dealer in stolen and illegal goods. Coercedby an Umkhonto weSizwe operative into acquiring bomb-making equipment for them due tohis violation of the Immorality Act and interrogated by the Security Police and forced towork for them, Bogdan goes underground and joins the struggle for freedom.
Joseph Matimba:also known as "Shadow" and a survivor from the 1976 Soweto uprising, heoperates an Umkhonto weSizwe cell in Soweto, attacking and bombing targets to publicizehis people's struggle. Captain Tiaan Botha: a member of the South African SecurityPolice, his prime goal is to capture the members of an Umkhonto weSizwe cell in Soweto. BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOODAfter the 1976 student uprising in South Africa, Simon Malaza leaves the country andreceives subversive military training from the African National Congress Military Wing in exile.
He returns to South Africa and manufactures a bomb with the intention of blowing up astrategic building to draw the world's attention to the plight of his people. The bomb explodesprematurely and Simon is killed. The South African Security Police arrest Simon's friendMichael Maleka and torture him in an attempt to make him confess to being Simon's accomplice. As Michael is innocent the police are eventually forced to release Michael from custody.
Michaelswears revenge on the two white policemen responsible for torturing him and sets out to find thetwo men and wreak revenge. During his search, Michael develops a lust for killing with hischosen weapon, the tine of a steel garden fork."Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than revenge." Winston S. Churchill.