South Africa, June 9 -- Bitter experience

The book is a haunting account of survival and of the beauty of the desert - made all that more poignant for me because, when I worked in Windhoek, I had the opportunity to visit the hideout Martin and his colleague fashioned out of the craggy cliffs above the Kuiseb River.

I made the mistake recently of watching a YouTube video - made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) software - which butchered the story. The characters changed appearance multiple times, there were animals you don't get in the Namib, the guns they had were wrong and the canyon was like the Colorado River, not the Kuiseb.

That bitter experience still in my mind, I was prepared to launch into attack mode when I saw Nedbank's new...