pvollmer
pvollmer
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Bio
My father was born in South West Africa and educated in Germany, as was traditional for the children of German colonists in those days. My mother, however, was born in Germany where she met my father during his studies. They married and returned to Windhoek, South West Africa and it where I spent most of my youth..
Shortly after finishing school in South West Africa (now Namibia), I spent time with my mother who was then resident in France after mp parents divorce.
After spending a few years in Europe, I returned to South Africa where I worked for a South African Bank.
The unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia by Prime Minister Ian Smith in the mid-60's and the immediate isolation and international embargo of the country. Rhodesia needed to survive and in order to do so the country continued to trade illegally but by all means possible with those countries and business who failed to heed the UN imposed embargo Smith and government established a team of embargo-busters, they no more than blockade runners who purchased the total crude oil contents of oil tankers on the high seas in international waters, sought out an illegal source of used military helicopters, strategic equipment, medical supplies and other essential goods required by the country, and ensuring that payment for these supplies was made without the British become aware of it. I did this for a few years and then returned and settled in Namibia.
My writing began during the Angolan bush war when friends and I would fly far into the Skeleton Coast desert, it a virtually uninhabited ,wild, untamed area where we would hunt. It was then the most incredibly beautiful country, it mostly untouched by man with few or no roads, no visitors and we probably the only humans in a hundred mile radius. Some call it the land God made in anger, but instead created wild and wonderful place.
My first novel, set in the period circa 1898, just prior to the outbreak of the South African Boer War, takes place in British colony, South Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa, now Mozambique. Unfortunately the manuscript was lost but I will return to that story in time.
While living in Namibia I traveled extensively, getting to know the country and its surrounds very well.
During Namibia’s independence I returned to live in South Africa and settled in Cape Town where I married for the second time.
My other interest in life is golf, a sport I take seriously!
My wife and I live in Cape Town. We have 3 children and 3 grandchildren.
I hope you will read and enjoy my novels.
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