The journey that unfolds in these pages is at once deeply personal and universally resonant—a testament to resilience, to faith tested by fire, and to the enduring call of home across impossible distances. It speaks to anyone who has ever been forced to leave the familiar, who has faced fear and found courage, who has lost their way and somehow found the strength to continue. This is Clem's story, but in many ways, it belongs to an entire generation—those who left their names carved on school desks and returned with them etched on memorial plaques, those who never returned at all, and those who came back carrying wounds both visible and hidden. It belongs to the women who waited, to the communities that changed in their absence, and to the children who grew up hearing only fragments of what their fathers had endured. As you turn these pages, you will walk with a young man from the Eastern Cape into the heart of global conflict and back again. You will feel the biting December wind of a German prison camp, the crushing weight of memory, and ultimately, the tentative promise of renewal. This journey—brutal, transformative, and ultimately redemptive—is A Long Way Home. —The Author