November 2025 Edition
The escalating humiliating attacks on HRH Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, KG (who from henceforth in this editorial we shall refer to simply as “Andrew”) have had a devastating effect not only upon Andrew himself, but upon the entire British Royal Family. It has been the most catastrophic crisis faced by the British Monarchy since the abdication crisis of 1936.
Before proceeding any further it should be emphasised that there are four important facts which cannot be denied :-
1) Jeffrey Epstein was a vile sexual predator who had been convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.
2) Ghislaine Maxwell is the evil daughter of an evil father.
3) Andrew showed shockingly bad judgement by ever associating with Epstein and Maxwell and other disreputable foreign characters.
4) Earlier Andrew had served his country with distinction, both in the Royal Navy (particularly during the Falklands War!) and then by his well-meaning, albeit somewhat ham-fistedly enacted, self-created role as Britain’s Trade Ambassador.
Having said all that, the allegations regarding Andrew which have been widely circulated in both the mainstream media and on social media that he is a “paedophile”, a “pervert” and a “rapist”, which have resulted in attempts being made to strip him of all his titles and honours, must be challenged. Andrew has never been formally charged in any court of law with any of the allegations of sexual misdemeanours made against him, let alone found guilty of any crime. Furthermore there has only been one woman who has made allegations of sexual impropriety against him, the late Virginia Roberts/Giuffre, allegations which he has always vigorously denied.
Even if we were to accept the claims made by Roberts/Giuffre as factually accurate – and this is a very big “if” – then none of the specific charges made by the mainstream media and on social media stacks up. The only specific claim by Roberts/Giuffre of an intimate sexual relationship with Andrew was in London when she was 17. As the legal age of consent in the UK (and in most US states) is 16 then the charge of “paedophilia” is clearly preposterous. As Roberts/Giuffre was obviously female and Andrew is indisputably male then the charge of “perversion” is equally absurd. Furthermore, as Roberts/Giuffre was by her own admission engaged in prostitution from a very young age then any sexual encounter by her at this time was clearly consensual, and therefore by very definition cannot be regarded as rape.
All of the above of course presumes that Roberts/Giuffre’s claims of having a sexual relationship with Andrew were correct – but where is the evidence? The only “evidence” offered seems to be an obviously fabricated photograph showing her standing next to Andrew with an extremely long left arm, and her own allegations. But how trustworthy was Roberts/Giuffre’s word? An often forgotten fact in this whole disturbing saga is that she once made a similar claim of sexual impropriety against Mr. Alan Dershowitz, a prominent US lawyer. When Alan Dershowitz threatened to take legal action against her for defamation she quickly back-tracked claiming that she had been “mistaken” about him – a euphemism for saying she lied.
The big question which still remains is why was a sum of $12 million paid mysteriously (though believed to have come from Royal sources) to Roberts/Giuffre in order to persuade her to drop all legal action against Andrew (which can only be regarded as a blackmail payment) when Andrew himself was reported to be eager to fight her claims in court? There have been rumours of fierce sibling-rivalry in this generation of the Royal Family for years of course, something which the late Queen Elizabeth successfully managed to keep firmly under wraps during her lifetime. Are we now witnessing this vicious sibling-rivalry reaching its zenith therefore, with Andrew being offered as a sacrificial lamb in order to cast the rest of the Royal Family in a good light in the hope of placating the more fanatical republican elements in the country?
If so then we believe – and we say this as ones who are firm supporters of the monarchical system – that those behind the witch-hunt against Andrew are making a big mistake. In the run-up to the French Revolution King Louis XVI tried to placate the republican mob by donning a Liberty Cap; it didn’t work, he was beheaded shortly thereafter. Those in the present British Royal Family who have been behind the attempts to throw Andrew to the wolves would do well to remember this precedent, and also the old maxim: “Once you have paid the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane”!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
Details of this year’s Springbok Club’s annual UDI Day celebration meeting are as follows :-
Date : Saturday 22nd November 2025
Time : Assemble from 14.00 hrs, meeting to start at 15.00 hrs
Venue : The Cheshire Cheese (the upstairs function room), 48 Crutched Friars, City of London, EC3N 2AP. (Please do NOT confuse this with the famous "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" in Fleet Street!)
[The nearest tube station is Tower Hill. Turn right out of the station into Trinity Square which becomes Coopers Row, under the railway bridge and then turn left into Crutched Friars. The Cheshire Cheese is then right in front of you. Enter the pub via the right-hand door, then proceed up the stairs straight in front and into the upstairs function room.]
Guest speaker : Mr. Gerald Parsons
Gerald Parson’s grandfather, Cyril Parsons, emigrated to the then young nation of Rhodesia in 1898, assisting with its early development before starting a family and becoming a consultant mining engineer. Gerald’s father, Anthony “Tony” Parsons, was born in the country in 1909, before the whole family, who had been disappointed at the result of the 1922 Referendum (when Southern Rhodesia voted against joining the Union of South Africa), decided to return to the UK in 1923. Cyril Parsons compiled a significant collection of documents and photos from his period in the country which have now passed into the hands of his grandson, who will be showing them at this meeting.
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Towards the end of December the Springbok Club will be commemorating the Day of the Vow with a report-back meeting at which the current situation in the “new” South Africa will be reported on. The Springbok Club’s 2026 AGM will be held in January next year, and in February 2026 the organisation will be staging a trip to Portsmouth for a special event. Further details about all these activities will be given in next month’s SCN.
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
The Patriotic Forum will be welcoming Mr. Edward Spalton, the Honorary President of the Campaign for an Independent Britain, as guest speaker at a meeting in February 2026. The organisation also hopes to stage meetings to be addressed by a leading official from the Turning Point UK organisation and a sitting county councillor early in the new year. Further details will of course be given in future editions of the SCN.
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MESSAGE FROM THE NETWORK FOR ANIMALS.
We have recently received the following worrying report from the Network for Animals organisation about the massive ill-treatment of donkeys in Kenya. It reads as follows :-
“In Kenya, countless donkeys are brutally and illegally slaughtered each year because of an insatiable demand in China for their meat and skins. More than 2 million donkeys die each year for this trade and there are only 44 million donkeys in the world. Unless the trade is stopped, donkeys could die out soon.
“Despite a legal ban on their slaughter, increasing reports of theft and clandestine killings persist, leading to a catastrophic decline in donkey populations.
“Donkeys are in serious trouble. Help us protect and save them, every amount does make a difference!
“When donkey slaughter was legal, Kenya quickly became an epicenter of the trade in Africa to China, where a gelatin called ejiao made from boiling them down is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
“In 2020, in collaboration with our local partners in Kenya and the Ministry of Agriculture, we successfully closed four donkey abattoirs.
“The slaughterhouses operated for just three years. In 36 months, 15% of Kenya’s donkeys were slaughtered. An alarming 1,200 donkeys were slaughtered daily.
“Thankfully, the Kenyan government banned the commercial slaughter of donkeys. However, we are now confronted with a new challenge, as the trade has shifted to illegal bush slaughter. It is imperative we stop this. We know that it's not easy, but the stakes are high. Donkeys are on the brink of extinction as their numbers rapidly decline.
“Fuelled by the relentless Chinese donkey skin trade, donkeys are stolen and illegally slaughtered in the bush, their skins shipped off to China, and their meat sold to unsuspecting consumers in Kenya.
“Thousands of freshly slaughtered donkey carcasses stripped of their skins, meat and other internal organs have been discovered by the authorities over the past few months alone. Just last week, 200 stolen donkeys destined for slaughter were rescued and returned to their owners.
“The cold-blooded criminals slaughtering donkeys for their skins are taking advantage of the high demand for meat in Nairobi, where unscrupulous high-end butcheries have been selling donkey meat disguised as cow meat.
“The methods of donkey slaughter are unspeakably cruel – they are bludgeoned with axes and hammers and are often even skinned alive. Can you imagine the utter terror of these poor donkeys?
“We must put an end to this atrocity – and fast!
“We need your help to end the horror of the donkey skin trade.
“With your support today, we will immediately deploy our specialized team to the high-risk areas of Kajiado, Machakos, Kiambu and Nairobi. Your donation will help us monitor suspicious and illegal activities in shutdown slaughterhouses and donkey bush slaughter hotspots alongside local law enforcement. We will also work with traffic police to track and intercept donkey skins in transit and prosecute the criminals involved.
“If we can raise $28,000 (£22,000) we can provide regular veterinary clinics and strategic surveillance initiatives across donkey slaughter hotspots in Kenya for an entire year, saving hundreds, possibly even thousands, of donkeys from horrific fates. Our group of animal experts will ensure that these rescued animals receive the best possible care.
“We cannot turn a blind eye as the animals are mercilessly slaughtered. Please donate generously to Network for Animals today and help us fight against the blood-curdling massacre of donkeys.
“For the animals,
“Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!), CEO and Founder, Network for Animals.
“P.S. Your donation will directly contribute to saving donkey lives and putting an end to this slaughter. Together, we can protect Kenya’s donkeys.”
To contact Network for Animals, or to make a donation to assist their campaign to help save the donkeys of Kenya, visit their web-site at : https://networkforanimals.org/
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CORRUPTION IN SOUTH AFRICAN SPORT
A significant event which received little publicity internationally was the arrest and banning of three former South African cricketers on charges of match-fixing. Such charges of result-fixing involving South African sportsmen are endemic in the “new” South Africa of course, but when the Hansie Cronje scandal of 2000 is remembered it is clear that, unlike with this more recent incident, the bribe-takers are not all non-White. This problem therefore isn’t basically a matter of ethnicity, but rather that such a breakdown in natural morality effects all in the corrupt state that South Africa has become since the collapse of civilised rule. A full report about this more recent case can be found at :-
https://www.sapeople.com/news/three-former-south-african-cricketers-arrested-over-match-fixing/
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HIGHLY INFORMATIVE ARTICLE BY GEOFF HILL
A supporter has recently alerted us to a most interesting article written by Geoff Hill (the Africa correspondent for both The Spectator and The Washington Times who spoke at Springbok Club meetings twice last year). Although this article is now somewhat dated it is still highly relevant and provides good background information regarding the chaotic situation throughout post-colonial Africa. It can be accessed at :-
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-rwanda-isnt-safe-for-migrants/
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CAMPAIGN TO DEFUND THE B.B.C.
In the light of this week’s crisis at the B.B.C. the following petition campaign organised by the British Freedom Party seems to be more relevant and important than ever. Hopefully you will therefore consider signing it, and if so please try to mention the SCN as the source from where you learnt about it :-
https://www.britishfreedomparty.com/defund_the_bbc?utm_campaign=eid_bbc_petition_310325&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jayda
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JANUSZ WALUS IS RELEASED
We have recently had it confirmed that Janusz Walus, the Polish friend of South Africa who was sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for accounting for an ANC terrorist leader, has now been released from prison and has been allowed to return home to Poland. We wish him a long and happy time back in his home country!
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SOUTH AFRICAN FARMERS SETTLE IN RUSSIA
Following a report which we re-circulated last year about South African farmers escaping from the disintegrating “new” South Africa by emigrating to Russia, a supporter has forwarded us a more detailed report about this development. It can be accessed at :-
https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/russias-african-village-a-beacon-of-hope-for-south-african-boers-amid-growing-tensions/
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SEARCH SERVICES FOR THOSE SEEKING LOST RELATIVES
Find any South African, even those who have emigrated. We also search Botswana, Namibia and ex-Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Please use the search request form at :-
http://www.bellemodel.biz/emails/emails.php?id=emails_from_SCN
Also check the list of South African expatriates/emigrants web-sites, which can be found at :-
https://www.bellemodel.biz/emails/expatriates/toplist_expatriates.php?id=toplist_expatriates_from_letter_uy
and
https://www.bellemodel.biz/uruguay/uruguay.php?id=uruguay_from_letter_uy
(This site is for people who have considered emigrating from South Africa, specifically to Uruguay.)
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BOOK OFFERS
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.324: Mr. A.P. “TONY” NORTON of Cape Town.
Tony Norton lived in the Rondebosch area of Cape Town, and was an adherent to a strange middle-eastern sect there. He was an early subscriber to the original S.A.Patriot magazine, and indeed occasionally purchased bulk quantities of the magazine for re-distribution, as well as ordering other publications which we then marketed. After we were forced to relocate to the UK he initially stayed in good written contact with us, but alas we haven’t heard from him for several years now, and the latest copies of The Imperial Patriot which we sent to him have recently been returned to us as his former P.O.Box in Rondebosch has evidently been closed. It would be good to learn what has become of him.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
The Patriotic Forum was most honoured and privileged in July to welcome a delegation of members of the British Indian Ocean Territories Citizens Forum as guests speakers. The organisation runs a most important and informative FaceBook page which provides ongoing news about their campaign to resist the current Labour Government’s treasonable attempts to surrender their islands to Mauritius, and thus to fight to ensure that they remain a British Overseas Territory. This FaceBook page can be followed at :-
https://www.facebook.com/biot.citizens/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CURRIED EGGS
Sir,
I first heard of the author of this article, Richard North, over thirty years ago when he single-handedly discredited the supposedly scientific evidence behind the scare about a strain of serious salmonella infection in British egg production. As a government minister, Edwina Currie (who was my MP at the time) had spotted an opportunity to make a name for herself as a doughty protector of public health. Richard North used his expertise as a former public health inspector to avert a massive imposition of expensive regulation which would have applied to British egg production but not to imports of eggs from European countries which were part of the “common market”. So his expertise in matters relating to food production and preparation saved many British poultry farmers from government-imposed ruin. He was also among the earliest observers of the way in which officials would defer to highly dubious Muslim claims for special treatment on supposedly religious grounds.
https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/politics-let-loose-the-dogs/
Yours etc.,
Edward Spalton, Derby, U.K.
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EX-CHANGE RATE
Sir,
If you look back 4000 years, things on earth have always been unstable. With modern technology things just change much faster on a larger scale.
Yours etc.,
H.Koch, Transvaal, South Africa.
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TRICKY WICKET
Sir,
If it's only Whites who wish to reduce racial tension in South Africa then they're on a losing wicket from the start. The historic lesson of South Africa is that magnanimity is a luxury that only winners can afford.
Yours etc.,
Michael Woodbridge, Denbighshire, U.K.
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OBITUARY
RICHARD “DICK” CHENEY
It was with much sadness that we recently learnt of the death of Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney. Dick Cheney was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1941, though he moved with his family to Wyoming during the 1950s. He excelled at school and won a scholarship to Yale, but academic life did not initially suit him and he dropped out before graduating. Eventually he realised that in order to pursue a political career which he aimed for he must gain some academic qualifications, so enrolled at the University of Wyoming, where he eventually gained both a BA and MA in Political Science.
Dick Cheney’s political career began when he was spotted by Donald Rumsfeld whilst completing his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, and was given a junior position in Richard Nixon’s administration. After this he served as deputy to Rumsfeld in two positions during Gerald Ford’s administration. With Ford’s defeat in 1976 Dick Cheney decided to stand for Congress, winning Wyoming’s only House of Representative’s seat with ease, and retaining it for several more terms of office. He proved a hard-working and effective member of Congress in spite of suffering a number of minor heart attacks, and also proved to be a very popular member of the GOP caucus, despite – or perhaps because of – his increasingly hard-line conservative views. Perhaps his most praise-worthy act at this time was being one of few mainstream American politicians to criticise the then South African government for releasing the convicted terrorist leader “Nelson” Mandela from prison.
Dick Cheney returned to front-line government in 1989 when President George H.W. Bush appointed him as Defence Secretary. In this position he masterminded American operations and the West’s successful liberation of Kuwait during the First Gulf War, a very complex and extensive military operation which necessitated keeping other Arab states fully on-side. His role in this conflict won him great plaudits, but George H.W. Bush’s defeat by Bill Clinton in 1992 meant that he was soon out of office, and he took up several executive positions in private companies as a result.
When George W. Bush was planning to run for the Presidency in 2000 he chose Dick Cheney to chair a committee to advise on his best Veep running-mate. It didn’t take the committee long however to realise that Cheney himself would be the best choice for Vice President, and George W. Bush quickly agreed. It proved to be an inspired choice. After the 9/11 al-Qa’eda terrorist attack he knew from the intelligence reports which he had seen during his time as Defence Secretary that al-Qa’eda was clearly linked to Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime in Iraq – and as there was also definite proof that this regime was continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction he realised that it was therefore essential to take decisive military action to destroy it. Dick Cheney and the rest of the George W. Bush administration stood valiantly to their guns in asserting these facts even though Leftist elements around the world sought to deny them, and thereby through the decisive victory in the second Gulf War saved the whole of the West from the terrible threat of increasing Islamic fundamentalist expansionism.
Dick Cheney enjoyed a long and happy marriage to a fellow old High School student, Lynne Vincent. They had two daughters, but alas both differed radically from his own conservative political standpoint, and coloured his own political judgement later during his life. His younger daughter Mary openly admitted being a lesbian, which resulted in him supporting same-sex “marriage”, and his elder daughter Liz, although following her father as a GOP member of Congress for Wyoming, became a fierce critic of President Donald Trump, causing him to state openly that he had voted for the Donkey Party candidate, Kamala Harris, at the 2024 Presidential Election. These ideological volte faces, although very much regretted, shouldn’t stop us from remembering and honouring Dick Cheney’s wise and steadfast leadership in defending the West against threatening Islamic expansionism during the two Gulf Wars.
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