SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
March 2008 edition
As the 2008 US Presidential Election nears its conclusion this is perhaps an ideal time to look back over the presidency of George W. Bush.
Our movement supported George W. Bush in both the 2000 and 2004 elections, and his record in office as a whole certainly hasn't disappointed. To be sure, we could be critical about some of his domestic policies where he perhaps hasn't delivered on all his promises, but from a non-American standpoint such matters are not really of concern to us - and furthermore it must be born in mind that for the past couple of years he has had to work with an antagonistic Democratic-led Congress.
Of far more concern to those of us elsewhere in the Western World, however, has been his foreign policy, and here his record can only be praised. Following the 9/11 atrocities he showed great courage and guts in confronting Taliban and al-Qa'eda terrorists militarily in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and thereby saved the West from far more frightening Islamic advances and incursions into our historic homelands. It would be very difficult to imagine Clinton, Gore or Kerry possessing the necessary political bravery to take such military action, and by so doing George W. Bush has placed his name alongside such heroes as Charles Martel of France and King Jan III Sobieski of Poland by saving Europe from further invasion by Mohammedan hordes. Of equal importance, furthermore, has been the determination of George W. Bush (a strong admirer of Sir Winston Churchill) to strengthen the Special Relationship between the US and the UK - even though initially Tony Blair seemed a most unlikely ally in this respect! By strengthening the Atlantic Alliance in this way British foreign policy has started to look increasingly west towards its traditional and natural partners, and away from increasingly involvement with the harmful and artificial European Union. If we have any severe criticisms of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administration then it has been their recognition of the illegitimate statelet of Kosovo, and - perhaps - their less than robust support for the State of Israel in its frontline battles against expansionist Islam. These failings apart, however, we still believe that everyone in the West must say a big thank-you to President George W. Bush.
But what of the future? For well over a year we have been strongly of the opinion that only one man possesses the necessary experience, talents and determination to become an effective next President of the United States during these troubled times - Senator John McCain of Arizona. It has therefore been a great joy - though not particularly a surprise - to learn that he has now secured the GOP presidential nomination for 2008, and thereby will almost certainly become the 44th President of the United States. Our full support and congratulations are therefore extended to Senator McCain.
Meanwhile the opposition Democratic contest is dire in the extreme. A Hillary Clinton presidency would undoubtedly be catastrophic for the West - but a triumph for Barack Hussein Obama seems too ghastly to contemplate. Our objection to Obama isn't because he's Black (we would have absolutely no qualms if Condi Rice was eventually to have a tilt at the presidency for instance) but because he is not a proper American - not a proper Westerner. How the son of a White atheist miscegenist and a Kenyan Muslim goat-herdsman, schooled at a Madrassa in Indonesia, could ever be contemplated as a candidate for the US presidency (and thereby to become the leader of the Western World) defies all belief! The most astonishing factor about all this is not the support which this hideous figure is unsurprisingly receiving from America's increasingly worrying number of ethnics, but the backing which he is obtaining from seemingly so many self-hating "Whites". Alas there seems to be something very rotten infecting American society at the moment. We wish the true American people well in defeating this poisonous attitude.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC FEBRUARY MEETING
Last month the Springbok Club/ELC was most privileged to be able to welcome Professor Charles Muller as guest speaker. Prof. Muller, who was formerly professor of English at both the University of the North and at UNISA, now runs his own highly successful publishing company, Diadem Books, in the UK. The latest book which Diadem Books has published has been the biography of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime secretary, Elizabeth Nel. In his speech Prof. Muller told something about the most interesting history of his publishing venture, and specifically recounted the background to Elizabeth Nel's biography, "Winston Churchill by his Personal Secretary". He was then joined by two of the authors of other works which Diadem Books has published, Monika Pavlik and Bryan Marlowe, who read several most interesting extracts from their books.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC KENT BRANCH GATHERING
The Kent Branch of the Springbok Club/ELC will be holding an informal get-together on Sunday 16th March at The Ship, Central Parade, on the Herne Bay sea-front (towards the eastern end of the town), from approximately 12.30 hrs onwards. This will provide an ideal opportunity to get to know other members and supporters from the county in a convivial informal atmosphere, and to plan future events to assist with the branch's development. For more information please 'phone: 07711-188430.
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FUTURE SPRINGBOK CLUB EVENT
The Springbok Club will be holding a special day-long celebration to mark Van Riebeeck's Day early next month. This promises to be the biggest event ever staged by the SC - and we hope will prove to be the best! Details are as follows:-
Date : Saturday 5th April 2008
Time : 13.00 hrs until late
Venue : Stepney, east London - near to Limehouse DRL station (precise location will be given upon purchase of tickets)
Price : £10.00 per head - which includes braai-pack, bread-rolls and salads etc. (discount prices for members of the SC/ELC)
There will be braai-facilities, a bar and South African-orientated videos on show throughout the day - as well as live musical entertainment provided by Robin Willow and Max Somerset. It is also hoped that a number of prominent personalities will be present for everyone to meet.
Tickets can be ordered by writing to: The Springbok Club, BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK (cheques etc. should be made payable to "The Springbok Club").
Please do you best not only to attend this most important event yourselves, but also to bring along as many of your friends and relations as possible. For more information please 'phone: 07711-188430.
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SPRINGBBOK CLUB/ELC BRANCH NEWS
The London Branch of the SC/ELC will be staging a trip to see the finish of the Doggett's Coat & Badge race on the Thames in July/August.
A member of the ExCo of the SC/ELC anticipates being in Belfast during August, when it is hoped that the Northern Ireland Branch of the organisation will be re-constituted. He will also be visiting Devon during April and Somerset in early May when informal get-togethers are planned with a view to forming official branches in these two counties.
In addition it is hoped that the Chilterns Branch will be re-constituted, and that a new branch in Sussex/Surrey will be founded very shortly.
Anyone interested in attending any of these events or becoming involved in new branches should 'phone 07711-188430 for more details.
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LONDON SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
The London Swinton Circle had the very great pleasure of welcoming Lord Stoddart of Swindon, an Independent Labour Life Peer and former Chairman of the Campaign for an Independent Britain, as guest speaker last month. This proved to be a highly successful and well-attended event, in which Lord Stoddart outlined the dangers posed to Britain by the EU's Lisbon Treaty, but then went on to inform everyone about how the House of Lords could still prevent ratification. In this regard he emphasised how important it was for people to write to sitting members of the House of Lords - particularly cross-benchers - asking them to vote against ratification.
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Details of the next London Swinton Circle meeting are as follows :-
Date : Thursday 27th March 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs
Venue: The Counting House, 50 Cornhill, London EC3. (Nearest tube station: Bank. Leave via Exit 5).
Guest speaker : Mr. Tom Wise MEP (one of the UKIP-elected MEPs representing the East of England).
Mr. Wise, a former police officer, was first elected an MEP in 2004, and has served as UKIP's spokesman on Culture, Media, Education and Sport. He has taken a special interest in the iniquitous EU Common Fisheries Policy and currently sits on the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee, and will be presenting his new publication "Dead in the Water: How the CFP destroys lives, economies, and environments" at this meeting.
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain held a special event to celebrate St. David's Day in Cardiff this year, during which the National Chairman of New Britain, Mr. Dennis Delderfield, laid a wreath at the Welsh National War Memorial. This event was part of an ongoing series of activities being staged by New Britain throughout the year to emphasise their "Keep the United Kingdom united" campaign.
Mr. Delderfield is also planning to stand for election as Mayor of London this year under the slogan of "Stop the Waste of Public Money". If elected Mr. Delderfield vows not to accept any salary and to do his best to abolish both the post of Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority itself. At the London Mayoral election all voters will be allowed to cast first and second choice votes, with the second choices from all lower-ranked candidates being re-distributed between the two leading first-choice candidates (who almost certainly will prove to be the official Conservative and Labour Party candidates). We therefore have no hesitation in advocating that Mr. Delderfield should receive first choice votes and that Mr. Boris Johnson (the official Conservative Party candidate) the second choices. We know that such advocation may not please supporters of UKIP, whose candidate Mr. Gerard Batten is certainly a most fine and able man. We sincerely believe, however, that Mr. Delderfield's campaign centred around the slogan of "Stop the Waste of Public Money" makes him the more preferable candidate.
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SAD NEWS FROM THE ZIMBABWE CONSERVATION TASK FORCE
It is with deep regret and sadness that we announce that Tusker the elephant was shot at around 11:30 on the morning of 6th January 2008.
We received well over 4000 signatures from people all over the world in a desperate plea for his life to be spared. The shooting was scheduled for Monday, the 7th January so it came as a great shock to hear that he was shot a day early.
Tusker's life had been on the line for some time, but the New Year's party that was held at Charara this year was the straw that broke the camel's back. We have had reports of drugs and alcohol being abused at the party by some of the youngsters who attended. It has been confirmed that they were pulling hairs out of Tusker's tail and slapping him on the rump and running away laughing. They were driving around the camp at high speeds, flashing headlights in Tusker's eyes and hooting at him and we have also had reports of fireworks and beer bottles being thrown at him. Despite all this senseless abuse, we have had no reports of Tusker hurting anyone which is testament to his basic good nature.
His "crime", which led to his death penalty, is that he damaged some cars in his search for food. It is not clear how many cars were damaged. We have had reports that the number was between 2 and 7.
The authorities will probably argue that they have a responsibility to protect the humans and that it would only have been a matter of time before somebody was killed by Tusker. Our argument is that a party of this magnitude, which is attended every year by thousands of youngsters should not be held in a National Park. This is why it is called a "game reserve" and not a "people reserve". There is a sign near the entrance of Charara camp that states "No loud music after 9pm" and "no fireworks". The proprietors of Charara camp hire the biggest music system in Zimbabwe and the music is so loud, it can be heard from one and a half miles away. Where were the organizers of the party when the youngsters started throwing fireworks at Tusker? How do people bring their children up so that they behave in such a despicable manner?
We would like thank all the wonderful people who tried to help us to save Tusker from the bottom of our hearts. We had no idea he was loved so much by so many people all over the world. Zimbabwe, and indeed the world, has suffered a very great loss.
Goodbye my big friend!
Best wishes
Johnny Rodrigues, Chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force
e-mail: galorand@mweb.co.zw - web-site: www.zctf.mweb.co.zw
(see also "Letters to the Editor")
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CLARIFICATION REGARDING BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE TO THE HON. IAN SMITH
In the "Recommended Web-Site of the Month" section of the January 2008 edition of the SCN we recommended two Rhodesian-orientated web-sites who had established special on-line Book of Remembrances in tribute to the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith. We stated that one of these had been initiated by the Flame Lily Foundation, but we have subsequently been informed that although the Flame Lily Foundation did indeed provide a link to this on-line Book of Remembrance, it was actually provided by Chris Whitehead of the Rhodesians Worldwide organisation (www.rhodesia.org) and can be accessed directly at:-
http://pub7.bravenet.com/guestbook/519410396
Our apologies to all concerned for this inadvertent mistake.
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ZIMBABWE DEBATE
A most interesting debate is to be staged on the future of Zimbabwe prior to the forthcoming elections in that country on Saturday 22nd March 2008 at the Scarborough Library, Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire, commencing at 14.00 hrs. This debate is being orchestrated by Mr. Albert Weidemann, the highly respected Zimbabwe human rights campaigner, and will feature representatives from both ZANU-PF and the MDC. Members of the public and the media are keenly invited to attend this most important event.
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FLAGS etc.
The Springbok Club/ELC now retails Union Flag lapel badges and key-rings, price £2.00 each (plus 20% p&p).
Payments should be made to "The Springbok Club" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
Copies of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile (editions 30 to 36) are still available price R5.00 or 50p each, as well as batches of 50 copies (including copies of the original S.A.Patriot) price R80.00 or £8.00 (plus 20% for p&p.)
Payments should be made to "Patriotic Press" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
[We hope to be able to produce the next edition of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, No.37, very shortly. We would, however, like to clear as much of our existing stock of back-issues as possible prior to publication. Supporters can help us in two ways in this regard, either by making donations which will enable us to distribute more copies, and/or by providing address details of people who might be interesting in receiving copies.]
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.112 : Mrs. TIMMS of Salisbury
Mrs. Timms (alas we never knew her christian name) was a most remarkable woman who ran a chain of guest houses orientated mainly towards the younger generation in central Salisbury during the 1970s - all catered for by one central dining area which provided a magnificent range of food for all meals throughout the day. This present writer first patronised this establishment whilst still a very young man during his first visit to the Rhodesian capital in 1974, and subsequently recommended it to the famous party of (then) young British patriots who toured Rhodesia in order to express their solidarity with their kith and kin in the country two years later. This proved to be a great inspiration, and indeed the colonial architecture of the particular guest house where the party stayed in 1976 prompted much enthusiastic comment, and the environment for much hopeful planning for the future - plans which alas never really came to fruition. We wonder whether anyone could provide us with any further information about the background of this quite remarkable woman and her establishment, and could also let us know what eventually became of her?
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
For some time now our movement has enjoyed very close fraternal links with the Canadian-based United Commonwealth Society, but for some unknown reason we have never previously made their excellent web-site our "Recommended Web-Site of the Month". This site has however recently been greatly enhanced and upgraded, so that it now contains a fully comprehensive array of sections about the main Commonwealth nations - including a most encouraging page concerning South Africa. It can be accessed at:-
http://www.unitedcommonwealth.org
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER
Sir,
Living in South Africa, I come in contact with a variety of citizens. Many of my friends are conservative Afrikaners, but I have also come across Blacks who are unhappy with the situation in South Africa. Last night I listened on Radio 702 talk radio to a Black listener who said "our culture is not ready for European conditions". He was referring to someone who wanted the speed limit on our motorways increased above 120 km/h. His feeling was that, although they can now afford cars that can comfortably exceed 200 km/h, most African road users are culturally unsuited for this. Many of those who 'phoned in were Whites who advocated raising the speed limit. (The programme was discussing whether our Minister of Defence, who was trapped by police doing 189 km/h, should be treated differently than any other road user.)
The selection of Peter de Villiers to replace Jake White as Springbok coach was ultimately made on racial grounds. He might turn out to be very good, but he starts with a huge handicap - and he acknowledges it. If the 'Boks don't shape within two years, everyone will blame it on a bad choice of coach. On the other hand, if he can hold South African rugby at the top of the log, South Africa Rugby management will be vindicated.
As for Zuma, there is no certainty that he will become President, although he is set to do so. The widening split within the ANC and its partners may be one outcome that will benefit other parties, but I believe the ANC will close ranks to protect their own interests when it comes to elections, as ZANU-PF has done with Mugabe.
Yours etc.,
Jan Geelvink, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
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BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER
Sir,
Hello, and thanks for a great newsletter.
I was sent the following newspaper article by a friend in Durban. The attitude and opinions of the demented writer cannot go unanswered. I was wondering if you might include the article in a forthcoming SCN and let your readers write to this offensive idiot telling him what a misguided 'turd world' White-hating commie he is. Nobody answers this type of blatant propaganda in South Africa because they are too scared of the communist authorities powers.
It's in your trusted hands now. I hope you can do something to let this person know how many people in the world find his opinion truly offensive:-
"De Villiers must just stay focused.
"Take a bow, South African Rugby and all the non-racial campaigners who refused to scrum with apartheid rugby in the past.
"The appointment of Peter de Villiers as the Springbok coach will spell new hope for sports transformation in a country in which only the privileged class had benefited from the sports economy.
"This breakthrough will not go down well with all the die-hard and rabid White rugby fans, but sometimes we have to swallow a bitter pill to enjoy the sweetness of the future when we can be truly proud of the sports ambassadors who fly our flag. Let's dispel what Adam Small once said: 'The new South Africa is all about black and white.' This is our country now, we will decide not the oppressors.
"De Villiers will find himself in the rough and up against politicking and a tough media, but he must stay the course, and focus on what he is good at - motivating, mentoring, inspiring and coaching our future rugby stars from the poor socio-economic belts from Langa, Soweto to Wentworth. Let the colours of our flag speak for itself.
"Marlan Padayache, 1 Hillside Road, Westville, 3629"
Yours etc.,
Mike, Natal, South Africa
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NEVER FORGET TUSKER
Sir,
Johnny Rodrigues, and probably everyone who loved Tusker, would like to have a memorial in some form erected at the gate to the park where Tusker lived and died.
We are brainstorming just what the memorial should be and if we can accomplish this with donated talent and funds:-
How should it look?
What should it be made of?
Who will design it?
Who will be the artist that creates it?
Will it be made in Zimbabwe, or will it be made elsewhere and moved to the site?
What will it cost?
Will someone donate their skills in design and/or artistry?
Can we get a team to work together to do it?
Can we raise the funds if we cannot get a donor?
How about everyone who has an idea for a design submit it so that everyone can see them. What if we have a friendly contest to see who can come up with the best design?
These are all things that must be considered, and hopefully, can be accomplished.
Here is one idea that I sent to Johnny:-
"I am wondering if we can't find someone to volunteer to make a big bronze plaque or statue of Tusker with the poem from Elise Matthes and the farewell letter you wrote to Tusker and the three pictures of him. Then it could be placed at the wildlife park entrance, and everyone could read about the terrible deed and the terrible loss of a magnificent animal that they will NEVER get to see because of human ignorance and cruelty."
Yours etc.,
Gayle Hoenig, Colorado, U.S.A.
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Sunday, 17 February 2008
February 2008 Edition.
SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
February 2008 edition
Few pieces of news can have delighted the hearts of all decent people more than the recent demise of the unspeakable Peter Hain.
Hain's despicable history has been well detailed in these columns before, and showed a consistent demonic hatred for his own kith and kin. It all started with his leadership of the evil "Stop the 70 Tour" campaign, which sought to deny people in Britain and South Africa innocent sporting pleasure simply because Hain and his fellow kill-joys didn't like the form of democracy then in existence in South Africa. Many of the actions of this vile campaign - such as the scattering of tin-tacks on rugby grounds, the hi-jacking of a player's coach and threats to shoot off cricket bails with sniper rifles - can only be described as quasi-terrorist operations. Such is the background of the repulsive Mr.Hain.
Incredibly the socialist windbag Neil Kinnock allowed the controversy-plagued Hain to enter Labour's parliamentary ranks, and to their eternal shames both Blair and Brown gave him ministerial rank. Once he got his dirty hands on the levers of power Hain was able to give substance to his hatred for his race and the British nation. As a junior Welsh minister he deviously orchestrated devolution in Wales (a necessary pre-cursor to our enemies' hoped-for break-up of the United Kingdom), and then after being promoted to become a junior Foreign & Commonwealth minister was heavily involved in the attempted sell-out of our loyal colony of Gibraltar to Spain - an attempt which was expertly stymied by Gibraltar Chief Minister Peter Caruana's clever ploy of holding a decisive referendum confirming the Gibraltarian people's overwhelming desire to maintain their current constitutional position.
Most disturbingly the trouble-making Hain was then promoted to cabinet rank by the crypto-Catholic Tony Blair, and unbelievably given the position of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, where his task was apparently to enact the final sell-out of the loyal province of Ulster to the RC-dominated Republic of Ireland. Happily Hain's evil machinations were once more stymied, this time by the loyalist people of Ulster who voted the hard-line DUP into power, who were then able to out-manoeuvre both the Blairite and RoI governments to maintain Northern Ireland's position within the United Kingdom.
Although Gordon Brown retained the wretched Hain in his cabinet, he at least moved him away from any position where he could attempt further constitutional damage. But for Hain-the-pain even worse problems were to follow. Arrogantly he decided to stand for the Labour Party Deputy Leadership, yet in spite of obtaining more money than all the other five candidates put together (as subsequently revealed) he only managed to come an ignominious fifth out of six. Furthermore the campaign exposed the level of contempt and hatred which the rank and file of the Labour movement evidently has for the poisonous Peter Hain.
Hain's recent demise, however, has had all the hallmarks of divine retribution. Once irregularities in his campaign financing had been detected (ironically only becoming illegal as a result of legislation introduced by the present Labour government!) he was quickly deserted by all his cabinet colleagues - thus confirming that it wasn't just the lower ranks of the Labour Party who detested him. An incident which occurred when the wretched creature read out his resignation statement on the steps of his former ministry was perhaps the most telling however, for it was
reported that building workers on a site across the road loudly booed him. These building workers couldn't have been particularly concerned about irregularities in his campaign financing, nor familiar with the intricacies of his attempted constitutional betrayals in his previous ministerial positions - no, what these building workers were aware of and what angered them so much was undoubtedly Hain's earlier violent anti-South African campaign. In this these building workers spoke better for the true people of Britain than anyone has done for many years.
As the old saying goes "He who laughs last laughs longest"; it may have been a very long time coming, but this only means that Hain's demise gives even more reason to rejoice. Let us hope that he crawls back to the sewer from whence he came never to emerge again.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC JANUARY MEETING
The Springbok Club/ELC was most pleased to be able to welcome Mr. John O'Brien as their guest speaker for their January meeting. Mr. O'Brien, who is Chairman of the Newbury Branch of Rhodesians Worldwide and a former trustee and National Chairman of the Rhodesians Worldwide Assistance Fund, was a leading organiser of the official UK memorial service in honour of the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith which was held in Berkshire during December. He gave a marvellous account of the memorial service - brought to life by pictures shown on his lap-top computer - which made all present feel that they had actually attended the event. After this he gave a most interesting and informative report on the important work of not only the RWAF, but also the M'dala Trust, a charity which was very close to the Hon. Ian Smith's heart during his final years.
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FEBRUARY SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC MEETING
Details of the next Springbok Club/ELC meeting are as follows :-
Guest Speaker : Professor CHARLES MULLER
Date : Tuesday 26th February 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs for 19.30 hrs.
Venue : THE ANTELOPE (the upstairs function room), 22 Eaton Terrace, Belgravia, London SW1W 8EZ (nearest tube station: Sloane Square).
Orange Free State-born Charles Humphrey Muller, MA (Wales), PhD (London), DLitt (OFS), DEd (SA), was Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of the North in South Africa for ten years, and Senior Lecturer in English at the University of South Africa before that. He is the author of numerous academic textbooks and literary studies published by Oxford University Press and McGraw-Hill, and was editor of Unisa English Studies and Communiqué, literary journals of the University of South Africa and the University of the North respectively. In 1988 he left his academic career to move to the UK where he bought a small hotel, the Kenmore Bank Hotel in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, to devote more time to creative writing. He has since written a number of novels ("A Twist in Time", "The Cage and the Cross", "Wheel of Fortune" and "Continental Drift"), and with his wife Joanne has co-authored two novels ("Rapture at Sea" and "Spirit of Ecstasy" by 'Carolyn Charles'). He wrote the inspirational work "Have Anything You Really Really Want", and served as editor for his wife's 'self-help' book "So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel!". After he sold his hotel in 2000 he established his own editing and publishing business, "Diadem Books", moving to the Grea Glen. Altogether he has published over 200 books in various categories. At present he lives in Clashnessie on the wild north-west coast of Sutherland, but spends summers at his home in Nova Scotia. The latest and perhaps greatest work published by "Diadem Books" is "Winston Churchill by his Personal Secretary", a biography of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime secretary Elizabeth Nel (who married a South African WWII serviceman and subsequently moved to Port Elizabeth), and this will form the main topic of Mr. Muller's talk.
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FUTURE SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC EVENT
The Springbok Club is planning to hold a special day-long celebration to mark Van Riebeeck's Day on Saturday 5th April in Stepney, east London. This will feature braai facilities, a bar, musical entertainment, South African-orientated videos and the presence of a number of prominent personalities. More details will be given in next month's edition of the SCN.
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SPRINGBBOK CLUB/ELC BRANCH NEWS
The Kent Branch of the SC/ELC is planning an informal pub gathering on the north Kent coast on Sunday 2nd March.
The London Branch of the SC/ELC will be staging a trip to see the finish of the Doggett's Coat & Badge race on the Thames in July/August.
A member of the ExCo of the SC/ELC anticipates being in Belfast during August, when it is hoped that the Northern Ireland Branch of the organisation will be re-constituted.
Anyone interested in attending any of these events should 'phone: 07711-188430 for more details.
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FUND-RAISING APPEAL
As can be seen, the Springbok Club/ELC hopes and plans to advance quite rapidly in the months ahead, but in order to do this we must start obtaining substantially more funds on a regular basis. In particular we need to obtain better photocopying facilities very quickly - as all those who have received invitations to our latest activities will fully understand!
Donations should be made payable to "The Springbok Club" and sent to: The Springbok Club/ELC, BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, U.K.
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LONDON SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
The London Swinton Circle was most honoured to welcome Mr. Peter Bone MP, the Conservative MP for Wellingborough and Rushden, as guest speaker last month. This proved a very successful and well-attended event, with Mr. Bone (a leading member of the "Better Off Out" group) giving a most inspiring speech detailing how many of the problems facing today's Britain could be rectified by a future Conservative government, particularly in relation to the UK's continuing membership of the EU.
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Details of the next London Swinton Circle meeting are as follows :-
Date : Monday 25th February 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs
Venue: Committee Room 2 of the House of Lords (please check at Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament for the definitive location of this meeting, as Committee Room allocations are sometimes subject to alteration at short notice).
Guest speaker : Lord Stoddart of Swindon, the Independent Labour Life Peer and former Chairman of the Campaign for an Independent Britain, who will speak on the theme "The Lisbon Treaty Bill and the erosion of our liberties."
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On Thursday 27th March the London Swinton Circle will be welcoming Mr. Tom Wise MEP, one of the UKIP MEPs for the East of England, as guest speaker. Fuller details will be given in next month's SCN.
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SOUTHERN AFRICAN AND OTHER MEMORABILIA FOR SALE
Robert Shipley has many items of memorabilia of special interest to Southern African and other patriots for sale. For more information and to make orders please 'phone 07748194373 or e-mail: robertshipley1729@yahoo.co.uk
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain staged their traditional ceremony at the bust of Admiral Arthur Phillip (the founder of Sydney and the first Governor of Australia) in the City of London on Australia Day (January 26th), where a floral tribute was laid by Mr. Dennis Delderfield, the National Chairman of the organisation. The Australian National Anthem was then sung, which was followed by a march headed by an Australian flag-bearer to the near-by St.Katherine Cree Church where a special service to mark the occasion was held. Throughout the day special Australia Day celebrations were also held at the Australian-themed Walkabout pub near Temple which was attended by an estimated 2000 people - most adorned with the REAL Australian flag! The Australian National Anthem was constantly played throughout the evening - as well as the New Zealand National Anthem at the end of the night. Apart from masses of expat Australians and New Zealanders, there were also a number of Brits, South Africans and at least one South-West African present at this crowded event - thus confirming the continuing friendship and unity between the pan-British people around the globe.
New Britain also held a ceremony to mark New Zealand's National Day on 6th February at the statue of Capt. James Cook in The Mall, which was followed by a special New Zealand-themed lunch and talk about the country.
The National Chairman of New Britain, Mr. Dennis Delderfield, is planning to stand for election for Mayor of London this year under the slogan of "Stop the Waste of Public Money". If elected Mr. Delderfield vows not to accept any salary and to do his best to abolish both the post of Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority. He also plans to visit Cardiff on St.David's Day, 1st March, in order to take part in a special event to mark the Welsh patron saint's day.
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REPORT FROM THE ZIMBABWE CONSERVATION TASK FORCE
Our biggest concern is the fate of the rhino in Zimbabwe. In the past 3 months we have lost 11, which is totally unacceptable. We cannot stress enough, the importance of protecting this gravely endangered species, not only for Zimbabwe but for the world as a whole.
Everybody has now heard about the Imire tragedy, where 3 black rhino were gunned down by men in military uniform. If you count the foetus that was only a week away from being born, we actually lost 12 rhino in the past 3 months - that we know of. A substantial reward has been raised for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators of this atrocity. The reward will be paid to the informant by National Parks once the criminals have been apprehended, so if anyone has any information please contact either National Parks on 792731 or the ZCTF on galorand@mweb.co.zw.
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WORLDWIDE TRIBUTES TO THE HON. IAN SMITH
Eddy Norris of the Rhodesian Air Force Association has done a fine job of collecting photos and comments regarding the recent memorial services held for the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith in various locations in South Africa, Australia and the UK. These can be viewed at :-
http://www.ourstory.com/thread.html?t=295082#305907
Please feel free to add your own stories and comments to this article.
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TRIBUTE TO IAN SMITH BY A BLACK MAN
I did not go to a first class school in Rhodesia
But Rhodesia gave me a first class education
I had no right to vote in Rhodesia then
But Zimbabwe gave me a right to vote for devils
I was brought up to hate you Mr Smith while young
But as a man I grew up to hate your enemy
I actually angrily believed then that Rhodesia will never have Black rule in a thousand years
But I can now happily say I will never again live under a Black majority rule in Zimbabwe in a thousand years
I am not White and never took you to be my Prime Minister then
But I am Black and would rather have had you as my Prime Minister now
You were right but had to leave government
But I was wrong and chose to leave my country
I am not a poet;
But these are my thoughts;
I am proud of what I have become
But you are the man who led a country that made me the person I am!
On behalf of the many Black faces who dare not say;
If ever you were hated, you were honestly loved more
R.I.P. Mr.Smith
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FLAGS etc.
The Springbok Club/ELC now retails Union Flag lapel badges and key-rings, price £2.00 each (plus 20% p&p).
Payments should be made to "The Springbok Club" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
Copies of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile (editions 30 to 36) are still available price R5.00 or 50p each, as well as batches of 50 copies (including copies of the original S.A.Patriot) price R80.00 or £8.00 (plus 20% for p&p.)
Payments should be made to "Patriotic Press" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
[We hope to be able to produce the next edition of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, No.37, very shortly. We would, however, like to clear as much of our existing stock of back-issues as possible prior to publication. Supporters can help us in two ways in this regard, either by making donations which will enable us to distribute more copies, and/or by providing address details of people who might be interesting in receiving copies.]
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.111 : Mr. JOHANNES LOUW of Durban
Johannes Louw was the son of that great friend of our movement Adv. Martin Louw, and the grandson of Dr. Eric Louw, the former South African Foreign Minister and Minister for Economic Affairs. No less of a genius himself, Johannes Louw graduated in Media Studies at the University of Potchefstroom vir CHE, and was a regular contributor to S.A.Patriot. Alas contact with him was broken when we were forced to relocate our operations to the UK, but we managed to re-make contact with him via e-mail at the start of the Internet age, when we learnt that he was working in the press and public relations department of the SAP. Unfortunately contact with him again ceased a few years ago when we believe that he was foced to leave the re-constructed SAPS, but we would be very keen to learn where he is now.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
Gayle Hoenig is an animal welfare activist from Colorado who takes a particular interest in both animal and human rights issues in southern Africa. She now has her own "blogspot" which is well worth a read, and which can be accessed at: http://www.abe21.net/ ('click' on Bloghouse and then 'click' on Gayle Hoenig) or at: http://gaylehoenig.blogspot.com/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
IDENTITY CRISIS
Sir,
The left are so stupid; they are now making out Smith was the cause of Mugabe - like blaming Churchill for Hitler.
Yours etc.,
Prof. David Marsland, Berkshire, U.K.
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HERO OF OUR TIMES (3)
Sir,
I am afraid that I couldn't attend the Memorial Service to the Hon. Ian Smith, but I hope the event went well. He was a good man and it was my privilege to have met him.
I know that Ian Smith had been recommended for a DFC and DSO and was blocked. Have you heard this?
He was very intelligent and may have been targeted by the Abwehr early on - it's a classic German tactic, talent-spotting and blocking the talent. They think long. Heath's MBE was pushed for example by German assets in the War Office. We know the Air Ministry was penetrated, hardly surprising with buffoons like Kingsley Wood as Air Minister!
Might be worth a closer look. I am thinking in terms of a posthumous award, exceptionally, if it turns out his medals were blocked for political reasons. I am sure he earned them.
Yours etc.,
Michael Shrimpton, Buckinghamshire, U.K.
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ROGUES GALLERY
A supporter has recently given us a copy of the January 2008 edition of the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, which details in depth the recent internal friction and split within the neo-fascist BNP.
Normally, of course, such matters wouldn't concern us in the slightest, but evidently the person mainly being blamed for these internal problems by one of the factions involved (by all accounts the more democratically-orientated faction) is none other than young Mr. Arthur Kemp - who apparently has now left his wife and children in South Africa to become the de facto No.2 in the neo-fascist organisation!
Arthur Kemp is very well known to us of course, as has been detailed in many previous editions of the SCN, and from our own experience those involved have every reason to be very suspicious of this young man, who they evidently term "the South African spook". Kemp seemed a good friend of our movement during the 1980s, and indeed wrote regularly for S.A.Patriot under the pseudonym of Adrian Kotze, but we were warned to be very wary of him by sources in the Transvaal because he was allegedly working for the South African intelligence services. Shortly after we were forced to leave South Africa and the ANC regime came to power in the early 1990s Kemp suddenly changed his political stance radically, turning from a mainstream centre-right patriot like ourselves, to becoming an off-the-edge neo-Nazi nutter. He then irrationally turned on his former friends and bizarrely claimed - without any foundation whatsoever - that it was us rather than him who had changed political views (one only has to read through copies of successive editions of S.A.Patriot/S.A.Patriot-in-Exile and the SCN to see how ridiculous this claim is!). It was then revealed both by The Mail & Guardian and subsequently by Searchlight that Kemp was working for the "new" South African security services (having apparently simply been handed-over as an "asset" by the previous NP administration to the incoming ANC regime) where his job was apparently to adopt an extremist neo-Nazi image and then to infiltrate authentic opposition organisations in South Africa in order to smear and embarrass them by association. His usefulness to the "new" South African authorities now being over it would appear that he has simply been handed-over to their British equivalents.
We would actually disagree with Searchlight on two of their observations about Kemp. They criticise him for having worked for the NP intelligence apparatus, whereas our condemnation of him is for seemingly willingly being handed-over to the incoming ANC security structure with apparently no objection whatsoever. They criticise him for being involved in the assassination of the ANC terrorist leader Chris Hani, whereas we condemn him for turning State's Evidence against that great South African hero Clive Derby-Lewis. It would be interesting to make contact with the more democratically-orientated faction of the BNP in order to compare notes about this young man.
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OBITUARY
NORMAN REEVES
It was with much sadness that we recently learnt of the sudden death of Norman Reeves towards the end of last year.
Norman Reeves enjoyed a distinguished service career with the SADF, serving as an officer with both the Parabats (the Parachute Battalion) and the crack Recce Commandos. He was also for a time very active with the patriotic movement in the Durban area, being an early supporter of S.A.Patriot and giving the magazine good publicity in the "freebee" newspaper which he then ran in Pinetown. Alas he disappeared from the scene during the mid-1980s, and apparently decided to remain in the "new" South Africa, but he subsequently re-surfaced a few years ago running his own private security company, CombatSecurity, which became a thorn in the side of the ANC regime because - unlike the SAPS - they proved very efficient in combating crime in Natal.
Norman was in rude health and only in his early 60s when he died suddenly of a heart attack - something which many people regard as suspicious. Our sincerest condolences are extended to Norman's widow Tersha.
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February 2008 edition
Few pieces of news can have delighted the hearts of all decent people more than the recent demise of the unspeakable Peter Hain.
Hain's despicable history has been well detailed in these columns before, and showed a consistent demonic hatred for his own kith and kin. It all started with his leadership of the evil "Stop the 70 Tour" campaign, which sought to deny people in Britain and South Africa innocent sporting pleasure simply because Hain and his fellow kill-joys didn't like the form of democracy then in existence in South Africa. Many of the actions of this vile campaign - such as the scattering of tin-tacks on rugby grounds, the hi-jacking of a player's coach and threats to shoot off cricket bails with sniper rifles - can only be described as quasi-terrorist operations. Such is the background of the repulsive Mr.Hain.
Incredibly the socialist windbag Neil Kinnock allowed the controversy-plagued Hain to enter Labour's parliamentary ranks, and to their eternal shames both Blair and Brown gave him ministerial rank. Once he got his dirty hands on the levers of power Hain was able to give substance to his hatred for his race and the British nation. As a junior Welsh minister he deviously orchestrated devolution in Wales (a necessary pre-cursor to our enemies' hoped-for break-up of the United Kingdom), and then after being promoted to become a junior Foreign & Commonwealth minister was heavily involved in the attempted sell-out of our loyal colony of Gibraltar to Spain - an attempt which was expertly stymied by Gibraltar Chief Minister Peter Caruana's clever ploy of holding a decisive referendum confirming the Gibraltarian people's overwhelming desire to maintain their current constitutional position.
Most disturbingly the trouble-making Hain was then promoted to cabinet rank by the crypto-Catholic Tony Blair, and unbelievably given the position of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, where his task was apparently to enact the final sell-out of the loyal province of Ulster to the RC-dominated Republic of Ireland. Happily Hain's evil machinations were once more stymied, this time by the loyalist people of Ulster who voted the hard-line DUP into power, who were then able to out-manoeuvre both the Blairite and RoI governments to maintain Northern Ireland's position within the United Kingdom.
Although Gordon Brown retained the wretched Hain in his cabinet, he at least moved him away from any position where he could attempt further constitutional damage. But for Hain-the-pain even worse problems were to follow. Arrogantly he decided to stand for the Labour Party Deputy Leadership, yet in spite of obtaining more money than all the other five candidates put together (as subsequently revealed) he only managed to come an ignominious fifth out of six. Furthermore the campaign exposed the level of contempt and hatred which the rank and file of the Labour movement evidently has for the poisonous Peter Hain.
Hain's recent demise, however, has had all the hallmarks of divine retribution. Once irregularities in his campaign financing had been detected (ironically only becoming illegal as a result of legislation introduced by the present Labour government!) he was quickly deserted by all his cabinet colleagues - thus confirming that it wasn't just the lower ranks of the Labour Party who detested him. An incident which occurred when the wretched creature read out his resignation statement on the steps of his former ministry was perhaps the most telling however, for it was
reported that building workers on a site across the road loudly booed him. These building workers couldn't have been particularly concerned about irregularities in his campaign financing, nor familiar with the intricacies of his attempted constitutional betrayals in his previous ministerial positions - no, what these building workers were aware of and what angered them so much was undoubtedly Hain's earlier violent anti-South African campaign. In this these building workers spoke better for the true people of Britain than anyone has done for many years.
As the old saying goes "He who laughs last laughs longest"; it may have been a very long time coming, but this only means that Hain's demise gives even more reason to rejoice. Let us hope that he crawls back to the sewer from whence he came never to emerge again.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC JANUARY MEETING
The Springbok Club/ELC was most pleased to be able to welcome Mr. John O'Brien as their guest speaker for their January meeting. Mr. O'Brien, who is Chairman of the Newbury Branch of Rhodesians Worldwide and a former trustee and National Chairman of the Rhodesians Worldwide Assistance Fund, was a leading organiser of the official UK memorial service in honour of the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith which was held in Berkshire during December. He gave a marvellous account of the memorial service - brought to life by pictures shown on his lap-top computer - which made all present feel that they had actually attended the event. After this he gave a most interesting and informative report on the important work of not only the RWAF, but also the M'dala Trust, a charity which was very close to the Hon. Ian Smith's heart during his final years.
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FEBRUARY SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC MEETING
Details of the next Springbok Club/ELC meeting are as follows :-
Guest Speaker : Professor CHARLES MULLER
Date : Tuesday 26th February 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs for 19.30 hrs.
Venue : THE ANTELOPE (the upstairs function room), 22 Eaton Terrace, Belgravia, London SW1W 8EZ (nearest tube station: Sloane Square).
Orange Free State-born Charles Humphrey Muller, MA (Wales), PhD (London), DLitt (OFS), DEd (SA), was Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of the North in South Africa for ten years, and Senior Lecturer in English at the University of South Africa before that. He is the author of numerous academic textbooks and literary studies published by Oxford University Press and McGraw-Hill, and was editor of Unisa English Studies and Communiqué, literary journals of the University of South Africa and the University of the North respectively. In 1988 he left his academic career to move to the UK where he bought a small hotel, the Kenmore Bank Hotel in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, to devote more time to creative writing. He has since written a number of novels ("A Twist in Time", "The Cage and the Cross", "Wheel of Fortune" and "Continental Drift"), and with his wife Joanne has co-authored two novels ("Rapture at Sea" and "Spirit of Ecstasy" by 'Carolyn Charles'). He wrote the inspirational work "Have Anything You Really Really Want", and served as editor for his wife's 'self-help' book "So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel!". After he sold his hotel in 2000 he established his own editing and publishing business, "Diadem Books", moving to the Grea Glen. Altogether he has published over 200 books in various categories. At present he lives in Clashnessie on the wild north-west coast of Sutherland, but spends summers at his home in Nova Scotia. The latest and perhaps greatest work published by "Diadem Books" is "Winston Churchill by his Personal Secretary", a biography of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime secretary Elizabeth Nel (who married a South African WWII serviceman and subsequently moved to Port Elizabeth), and this will form the main topic of Mr. Muller's talk.
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FUTURE SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC EVENT
The Springbok Club is planning to hold a special day-long celebration to mark Van Riebeeck's Day on Saturday 5th April in Stepney, east London. This will feature braai facilities, a bar, musical entertainment, South African-orientated videos and the presence of a number of prominent personalities. More details will be given in next month's edition of the SCN.
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SPRINGBBOK CLUB/ELC BRANCH NEWS
The Kent Branch of the SC/ELC is planning an informal pub gathering on the north Kent coast on Sunday 2nd March.
The London Branch of the SC/ELC will be staging a trip to see the finish of the Doggett's Coat & Badge race on the Thames in July/August.
A member of the ExCo of the SC/ELC anticipates being in Belfast during August, when it is hoped that the Northern Ireland Branch of the organisation will be re-constituted.
Anyone interested in attending any of these events should 'phone: 07711-188430 for more details.
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FUND-RAISING APPEAL
As can be seen, the Springbok Club/ELC hopes and plans to advance quite rapidly in the months ahead, but in order to do this we must start obtaining substantially more funds on a regular basis. In particular we need to obtain better photocopying facilities very quickly - as all those who have received invitations to our latest activities will fully understand!
Donations should be made payable to "The Springbok Club" and sent to: The Springbok Club/ELC, BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, U.K.
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LONDON SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
The London Swinton Circle was most honoured to welcome Mr. Peter Bone MP, the Conservative MP for Wellingborough and Rushden, as guest speaker last month. This proved a very successful and well-attended event, with Mr. Bone (a leading member of the "Better Off Out" group) giving a most inspiring speech detailing how many of the problems facing today's Britain could be rectified by a future Conservative government, particularly in relation to the UK's continuing membership of the EU.
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Details of the next London Swinton Circle meeting are as follows :-
Date : Monday 25th February 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs
Venue: Committee Room 2 of the House of Lords (please check at Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament for the definitive location of this meeting, as Committee Room allocations are sometimes subject to alteration at short notice).
Guest speaker : Lord Stoddart of Swindon, the Independent Labour Life Peer and former Chairman of the Campaign for an Independent Britain, who will speak on the theme "The Lisbon Treaty Bill and the erosion of our liberties."
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On Thursday 27th March the London Swinton Circle will be welcoming Mr. Tom Wise MEP, one of the UKIP MEPs for the East of England, as guest speaker. Fuller details will be given in next month's SCN.
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SOUTHERN AFRICAN AND OTHER MEMORABILIA FOR SALE
Robert Shipley has many items of memorabilia of special interest to Southern African and other patriots for sale. For more information and to make orders please 'phone 07748194373 or e-mail: robertshipley1729@yahoo.co.uk
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain staged their traditional ceremony at the bust of Admiral Arthur Phillip (the founder of Sydney and the first Governor of Australia) in the City of London on Australia Day (January 26th), where a floral tribute was laid by Mr. Dennis Delderfield, the National Chairman of the organisation. The Australian National Anthem was then sung, which was followed by a march headed by an Australian flag-bearer to the near-by St.Katherine Cree Church where a special service to mark the occasion was held. Throughout the day special Australia Day celebrations were also held at the Australian-themed Walkabout pub near Temple which was attended by an estimated 2000 people - most adorned with the REAL Australian flag! The Australian National Anthem was constantly played throughout the evening - as well as the New Zealand National Anthem at the end of the night. Apart from masses of expat Australians and New Zealanders, there were also a number of Brits, South Africans and at least one South-West African present at this crowded event - thus confirming the continuing friendship and unity between the pan-British people around the globe.
New Britain also held a ceremony to mark New Zealand's National Day on 6th February at the statue of Capt. James Cook in The Mall, which was followed by a special New Zealand-themed lunch and talk about the country.
The National Chairman of New Britain, Mr. Dennis Delderfield, is planning to stand for election for Mayor of London this year under the slogan of "Stop the Waste of Public Money". If elected Mr. Delderfield vows not to accept any salary and to do his best to abolish both the post of Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority. He also plans to visit Cardiff on St.David's Day, 1st March, in order to take part in a special event to mark the Welsh patron saint's day.
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REPORT FROM THE ZIMBABWE CONSERVATION TASK FORCE
Our biggest concern is the fate of the rhino in Zimbabwe. In the past 3 months we have lost 11, which is totally unacceptable. We cannot stress enough, the importance of protecting this gravely endangered species, not only for Zimbabwe but for the world as a whole.
Everybody has now heard about the Imire tragedy, where 3 black rhino were gunned down by men in military uniform. If you count the foetus that was only a week away from being born, we actually lost 12 rhino in the past 3 months - that we know of. A substantial reward has been raised for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators of this atrocity. The reward will be paid to the informant by National Parks once the criminals have been apprehended, so if anyone has any information please contact either National Parks on 792731 or the ZCTF on galorand@mweb.co.zw.
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WORLDWIDE TRIBUTES TO THE HON. IAN SMITH
Eddy Norris of the Rhodesian Air Force Association has done a fine job of collecting photos and comments regarding the recent memorial services held for the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith in various locations in South Africa, Australia and the UK. These can be viewed at :-
http://www.ourstory.com/thread.html?t=295082#305907
Please feel free to add your own stories and comments to this article.
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TRIBUTE TO IAN SMITH BY A BLACK MAN
I did not go to a first class school in Rhodesia
But Rhodesia gave me a first class education
I had no right to vote in Rhodesia then
But Zimbabwe gave me a right to vote for devils
I was brought up to hate you Mr Smith while young
But as a man I grew up to hate your enemy
I actually angrily believed then that Rhodesia will never have Black rule in a thousand years
But I can now happily say I will never again live under a Black majority rule in Zimbabwe in a thousand years
I am not White and never took you to be my Prime Minister then
But I am Black and would rather have had you as my Prime Minister now
You were right but had to leave government
But I was wrong and chose to leave my country
I am not a poet;
But these are my thoughts;
I am proud of what I have become
But you are the man who led a country that made me the person I am!
On behalf of the many Black faces who dare not say;
If ever you were hated, you were honestly loved more
R.I.P. Mr.Smith
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FLAGS etc.
The Springbok Club/ELC now retails Union Flag lapel badges and key-rings, price £2.00 each (plus 20% p&p).
Payments should be made to "The Springbok Club" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
Copies of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile (editions 30 to 36) are still available price R5.00 or 50p each, as well as batches of 50 copies (including copies of the original S.A.Patriot) price R80.00 or £8.00 (plus 20% for p&p.)
Payments should be made to "Patriotic Press" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
[We hope to be able to produce the next edition of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, No.37, very shortly. We would, however, like to clear as much of our existing stock of back-issues as possible prior to publication. Supporters can help us in two ways in this regard, either by making donations which will enable us to distribute more copies, and/or by providing address details of people who might be interesting in receiving copies.]
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A small stock of this book, which makes an ideal gift, are still available from : Yesterdays Books, 6 Cecil Avenue, Bournemouth, BH8 9EH, UK at £15.00 - plus £3.50 or £6.50 (airmail) for postage and packing.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.111 : Mr. JOHANNES LOUW of Durban
Johannes Louw was the son of that great friend of our movement Adv. Martin Louw, and the grandson of Dr. Eric Louw, the former South African Foreign Minister and Minister for Economic Affairs. No less of a genius himself, Johannes Louw graduated in Media Studies at the University of Potchefstroom vir CHE, and was a regular contributor to S.A.Patriot. Alas contact with him was broken when we were forced to relocate our operations to the UK, but we managed to re-make contact with him via e-mail at the start of the Internet age, when we learnt that he was working in the press and public relations department of the SAP. Unfortunately contact with him again ceased a few years ago when we believe that he was foced to leave the re-constructed SAPS, but we would be very keen to learn where he is now.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
Gayle Hoenig is an animal welfare activist from Colorado who takes a particular interest in both animal and human rights issues in southern Africa. She now has her own "blogspot" which is well worth a read, and which can be accessed at: http://www.abe21.net/ ('click' on Bloghouse and then 'click' on Gayle Hoenig) or at: http://gaylehoenig.blogspot.com/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
IDENTITY CRISIS
Sir,
The left are so stupid; they are now making out Smith was the cause of Mugabe - like blaming Churchill for Hitler.
Yours etc.,
Prof. David Marsland, Berkshire, U.K.
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HERO OF OUR TIMES (3)
Sir,
I am afraid that I couldn't attend the Memorial Service to the Hon. Ian Smith, but I hope the event went well. He was a good man and it was my privilege to have met him.
I know that Ian Smith had been recommended for a DFC and DSO and was blocked. Have you heard this?
He was very intelligent and may have been targeted by the Abwehr early on - it's a classic German tactic, talent-spotting and blocking the talent. They think long. Heath's MBE was pushed for example by German assets in the War Office. We know the Air Ministry was penetrated, hardly surprising with buffoons like Kingsley Wood as Air Minister!
Might be worth a closer look. I am thinking in terms of a posthumous award, exceptionally, if it turns out his medals were blocked for political reasons. I am sure he earned them.
Yours etc.,
Michael Shrimpton, Buckinghamshire, U.K.
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ROGUES GALLERY
A supporter has recently given us a copy of the January 2008 edition of the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, which details in depth the recent internal friction and split within the neo-fascist BNP.
Normally, of course, such matters wouldn't concern us in the slightest, but evidently the person mainly being blamed for these internal problems by one of the factions involved (by all accounts the more democratically-orientated faction) is none other than young Mr. Arthur Kemp - who apparently has now left his wife and children in South Africa to become the de facto No.2 in the neo-fascist organisation!
Arthur Kemp is very well known to us of course, as has been detailed in many previous editions of the SCN, and from our own experience those involved have every reason to be very suspicious of this young man, who they evidently term "the South African spook". Kemp seemed a good friend of our movement during the 1980s, and indeed wrote regularly for S.A.Patriot under the pseudonym of Adrian Kotze, but we were warned to be very wary of him by sources in the Transvaal because he was allegedly working for the South African intelligence services. Shortly after we were forced to leave South Africa and the ANC regime came to power in the early 1990s Kemp suddenly changed his political stance radically, turning from a mainstream centre-right patriot like ourselves, to becoming an off-the-edge neo-Nazi nutter. He then irrationally turned on his former friends and bizarrely claimed - without any foundation whatsoever - that it was us rather than him who had changed political views (one only has to read through copies of successive editions of S.A.Patriot/S.A.Patriot-in-Exile and the SCN to see how ridiculous this claim is!). It was then revealed both by The Mail & Guardian and subsequently by Searchlight that Kemp was working for the "new" South African security services (having apparently simply been handed-over as an "asset" by the previous NP administration to the incoming ANC regime) where his job was apparently to adopt an extremist neo-Nazi image and then to infiltrate authentic opposition organisations in South Africa in order to smear and embarrass them by association. His usefulness to the "new" South African authorities now being over it would appear that he has simply been handed-over to their British equivalents.
We would actually disagree with Searchlight on two of their observations about Kemp. They criticise him for having worked for the NP intelligence apparatus, whereas our condemnation of him is for seemingly willingly being handed-over to the incoming ANC security structure with apparently no objection whatsoever. They criticise him for being involved in the assassination of the ANC terrorist leader Chris Hani, whereas we condemn him for turning State's Evidence against that great South African hero Clive Derby-Lewis. It would be interesting to make contact with the more democratically-orientated faction of the BNP in order to compare notes about this young man.
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OBITUARY
NORMAN REEVES
It was with much sadness that we recently learnt of the sudden death of Norman Reeves towards the end of last year.
Norman Reeves enjoyed a distinguished service career with the SADF, serving as an officer with both the Parabats (the Parachute Battalion) and the crack Recce Commandos. He was also for a time very active with the patriotic movement in the Durban area, being an early supporter of S.A.Patriot and giving the magazine good publicity in the "freebee" newspaper which he then ran in Pinetown. Alas he disappeared from the scene during the mid-1980s, and apparently decided to remain in the "new" South Africa, but he subsequently re-surfaced a few years ago running his own private security company, CombatSecurity, which became a thorn in the side of the ANC regime because - unlike the SAPS - they proved very efficient in combating crime in Natal.
Norman was in rude health and only in his early 60s when he died suddenly of a heart attack - something which many people regard as suspicious. Our sincerest condolences are extended to Norman's widow Tersha.
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Monday, 14 January 2008
January 2008 Edition.
SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
January 2008 edition
Unlike many commentators we were not surprised in the least by the election of Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC (and thereby probably the next President of the "new" South Africa), and neither were we particularly alarmed by this development.
Zuma after all, unlike Thabo Mbeki, represents the true face of the unreconstructed ANC terrorist organisation, and is a direct throw-back to the convicted criminal Mandela. Unlike Mbeki, both Zuma and Mandela - and indeed Mbeki's own father - were "hands on" terrorists; Mbeki himself, however, was never directly involved in terrorist acts of violence, and spent many of his early years studying at the University of Sussex, where he presumably managed to learn something.
Mbeki's term of office as "new" South African president did not start very encouragingly; it saw a continuation of the anti-White terror, escalation of crime, and the economic disintegration which typified the Mandela years - plus of course some absolutely lunatic pronouncements about the causes of HIV/AIDS! Towards the end of his term of office, however, things started to change; the crime rate, although not reduced, did not increase at the same rate, and the economic collapse of the country was halted, so that incredibly there has even been economic growth in South Africa during the past couple of years! The reason for this seems to be obvious, and that is because Mbeki decided to embrace - if somewhat reluctantly - the capitalist system (evidently his years at the University of Sussex DID have a positive effect!). Needless to say this pro-capitalist stance has mortified the ANC's main string-pullers, the South African Communist Party - and this of course was the reason why the SACP abandoned Mbeki and orchestrated the pliable Zuma's victory at the recent ANC convention.
But was any other outcome ever possible? In years to come the Mbeki interlude will probably be viewed as a very surprising "golden age" between the predictable Mandela and Zuma eras. But this therefore begs another question; did the Whites of South Africa ever really deserve anything other than the renewed fate which now confronts them under Zuma? After all they voted 2 to 1 in both the 1983 and 1992 referenda for sell-out and surrender, which all but the most myopic must have realised would lead INEVITABLY to ANC terrorist rule by the likes of Mandela and Zuma.
In spite of the Mbeki interlude ANC rule can only result in one long-term outcome - the complete disintegration of the South African state into yet another Black African basket-case, with no place for Whites whatsoever. The sooner that this inevitability comes about the better as far as we are concerned, for the sooner the complete collapse occurs then the sooner that Western intervention to re-establish a civilised South Africa can be forthcoming. Our advice to all Whites still residing in that unfortunate land still remains the same therefore. You may have experienced a surprising - and undeserved - interlude of RELATIVE safety during the latter Mbeki years, but this era is rapidly approaching its end. Therefore get out of that sorry country and soon as you can and by whatever means you can!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC 2008 AGM
The Springbok Club/ELC held a most successful AGM last month. After very encouraging reports by both the Organiser and the Treasurer of the organisation, and a highly optimistic review by the Branch Development Officer, elections were held for the various office holders for 2008 (elections which were conducted by Mr. James Lewis). The current Executive Committee members were all re-elected, with the exception that Mr. Paul Armstrong was voted in to take the place of the late Bill Binding. [Specific positions within ExCo will be decided upon at the next ExCo meeting.] Ex-officio election results were that Ryan Kriste was re-elected as Official Translator, and Robert Shipley and David Williams were elected jointly as Overseas Liaison Officers. Two motions were then proposed and passed unanimously. The first stated: "It is proposed that the Springbok Club/ELC should endeavour every year to discover a statue or memorial somewhere in the UK to a great Imperial Patriot who has a significant birth anniversary during the year in question, and to stage a visit to the town or city where that statue or memorial stands in order to place thereupon a wreath in honour of the hero in question." The second stated: "It is proposed that the Springbok Club/ELC should purchase a suitable statuette, and to award it on an annual basis in memory of Mike Skelly to the person chosen each year by a majority vote of the Executive Committee as 'Patriot of the Year'".
After the business side of the AGM was concluded Dr. John Pope-de Locksley, the nephew of Bill Binding, gave a most enlightening eulogy to his dear uncle and long-standing and dedicated member of the SC/ELC who sadly died during November, which he illustrated by passing around photographs of Bill both whilst he was still living in South Africa and subsequently after his return to the UK.
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JANUARY SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC MEETING
Details of the next Springbok Club/ELC meeting are as follows :-
Guest Speaker : Mr. JOHN O'BRIEN (who will be giving a report-back on the memorial service which was held in tribute to the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith in Berkshire during December, and who will also be telling something about the work of the Rhodesians Worldwide Assistance Fund.)
Date : Wednesday 16th January 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs for 19.30 hrs.
Venue : THE ANTELOPE (the upstairs function room), 22 Eaton Terrace, Belgravia, London SW1W 8EZ (nearest tube station: Sloane Square - turn right out of the main entrance, then right again into the north side of Sloane Square which then becomes Cliveden Place, and finally left into Eaton Terrace where The Antelope is on the left).
John O'Brien emigrated to Northern Rhodesia as a child with his parents in 1958, before the family moved to Bulawayo in 1960. He was educated in Bulawayo, and then joined the Rhodesian Post Office upon leaving school. He did his National Service in the Army between 1976 and 1978, initially with the Leader Training Unit at Llewellyn Barracks, before being posted to C Company at Adams Barracks in Umtali, where he saw active service on the Mozambique border and in the Lowveld. He returned to the UK in 1980, where he has run his own highly successful employment agency business in Newbury for the past 18 years. He was a trustee of the Rhodesians Worldwide Assistance Fund for many years, and National Chairman of the organisation from 2003 to 2006. He is currently the Chairman of the Newbury Branch of Rhodesians Worldwide, and in this role was prominently involved in organising last month's memorial service in honour of the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith.
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FUTURE SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC EVENT
During February the Springbok Club/ELC will be staging a special meeting at which a leading South African academic and publisher who has recently published a biography of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime secretary will talk on the subject of this empirical biography and other related matters.
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SPRINGBBOK CLUB/ELC BRANCH NEWS
The Kent Branch of the SC/ELC is planning an informal pub gathering in the north Kent area sometime during March 2008. Further details will be given in next month's SCN.
The London Branch of the SC/ELC is planning to hold a spring get-together, which hopefully will take the form of a braai. The branch is also planning a trip to see the finish of the Doggett's Coat & Badge race on the Thames in July/August next year.
A member of the ExCo of the SC/ELC anticipates being in Belfast during late April, when it is hoped that the Northern Ireland Branch of the organisation can be re-constituted. Could all Ulster-based supporters who might be interested in attending an informal gathering in this regard please e-mail: springbok@falklands.org or 'phone: 07711-188430.
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LONDON SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
At their Winter Buffet the London Swinton Circle welcomed Mr. Nigel Farage MEP, the leader of UKIP, as guest speaker. This proved to be an extremely successful and well-attended event, and Mr. Farage certainly didn't disappoint - giving an absolutely riveting account of the intrigues of the EU, and the reasons why the UK can - and must - withdraw from this iniquitous international entity.
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Details of the next London Swinton Circle meeting are as follows :-
Date : Thursday 24th January 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs
Venue: Committee Room 17 of the House of Commons (please check at Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament for the definitive location of this meeting, as Committee Room allocations are sometimes subject to alteration at short notice).
Guest speaker : Mr. Peter Bone MP (Conservative, Wellingborough). Mr. Bone, who was elected MP for Wellingborough in 2005, is a leading "Euroscepic" within the Conservative Party, and is a close confidant of the Rt. Hon. John Redwood MP.
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During March the London Swinton Circle will be welcoming Mr. Tom Wise MEP, a UKIP member for the East of England, as guest speaker.
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SOUTHERN AFRICAN AND OTHER MEMORABILIA FOR SALE
Robert Shipley has many items of memorabilia of special interest to Southern African and other patriots for sale. For more information and to make orders please 'phone 07748194373 or e-mail: robertshipley1729@yahoo.co.uk
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REPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE
Japan's whaling fleet is due to leave for the Southern Ocean Sanctuary in the next week and plans to kill 50 endangered humpback whales, as well as around 1,000 other whales, in the name of 'science'. Please e-mail your MP today and ask that he or she writes to Foreign Secretary David Miliband to help stop this needless killing.
Whaling is cruel – it can take over half an hour for a whale to die – and whales are worth more alive than dead. Whale-watching provides a valuable income to coastal communities in over 87 countries around the world.
There is no need to kill whales to study them. IFAW's whale research boat, Song of the Whale, carries out non-invasive research on marine mammals around the world; proof that you don't have to kill whales to study them. Scientists have condemned so-called 'scientific whaling' because new research methods make it easier than ever before to study whales without harming them.
Despite recent success at the last International Whaling Commission meeting, there are still many whales being needlessly killed.
The UK Government needs to raise the whaling issue with pro-whaling countries and encourage them to support whale conservation. Many whale species have still not recovered from previous intensive whaling. It is critical that the UK Government takes the lead in this grave animal welfare and conservation issue, and it is vital that we tell them so.
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain will again be holding a special celebration to mark Australia and New Zealand Days later this month. This event will take place on Saturday 26th January (Australia Day itself), assembling at the statue of Admiral Arthur Philip (the founder of Sydney) in Watling Street at the rear of St.Paul's Cathedral at 14.00 hrs. Following the laying of a wreath at the statue of Admiral Philip (who was born in the City of London) a short procession carrying the Australian and New Zealand flags will take place to St.Catherine Cree Church, Leadenhall Street, where a special service will take place at 15.00 hrs., followed by a reception in the St.Catherine Cree Church Hall.
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ENCYLOPAEDIA RHODESIA
The 1973 Version Reprint.
This was the first book of its kind to be published on Rhodesia and contains nearly 500 pages of alphabetical entries and numerous appendices covering many important aspects of Rhodesia. Information on Rhodesian history, geography, flora and fauna, the way of life of its peoples, law, central Government and various other aspects of Rhodesia is given in a clear, concise, form. This enables the reader to absorb the facts quickly, and makes possible the coverage of a large range of subjects. Numerous photographs, drawings and maps help to re-enforce many of the topics described. Encyclopaedia Rhodesia will go a long way in satisfying the need for a simple reference work on Rhodesia. This is an invaluable aid to those with an interest in Rhodesia.
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TELEGRAPH REFUSES TO PUBLISH TRIBUTE TO IAN SMITH
Following the death of the Hon. Ian Smith a supporter from Sussex, Mrs. Flora Jenner, tried to place a tribute to the great man in the Personal Columns of the Daily Telegraph. This personal insertion was to have read as follows :-
"Ian Smith. Humanitarian, Hero, Statesman. Betrayed by lesser men. Remembered with admiration."
What happened next was both bizarre and worrying. In Mrs.Jenner's own words :-
"This was accepted but I, myself, questioned the insertion of 'betrayed..', she said she would phone me back about this. Shortly after I had a call from the Telegraph saying that the entire notice could be inserted and that it was quite acceptable as it stood. Some hours later the paper phoned me again to say the 'High Ups' had vetoed the entire notice.
"I was told that an obituary would appear the next day and that I was 'not the only one' who had been refused this service.
"You probably read the obituary which was factual but not in any way giving him credit for his courage and resolution, rather the notion that he was deceitful and stubborn.
"My opinion about all this is that it had been decided that there was to be no public expression of admiration for him and that the common people must be silenced - as we always are on matters of significance. Meanwhile the establishment can have free reign to continue its usual p.c. line unchallenged. What is chilling is that we are not talking about The Guardian or the Morning Star - but the 'Tory-graph'!"
Did anyone else experience similar problems in trying to pay tribute to the Hon. Ian Smith we therefore wonder - either in the Daily Telegraph or elsewhere? We would be very keen to obtain details if anyone else did.
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FLAGS etc.
The Springbok Club/ELC now retails Union Flag lapel badges and key-rings, price £2.00 each (plus 20% p&p).
Payments should be made to "The Springbok Club" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
Copies of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile (editions 30 to 36) are still available price R5.00 or 50p each, as well as batches of 50 copies (including copies of the original S.A.Patriot) price R80.00 or £8.00 (plus 20% for p&p.)
Payments should be made to "Patriotic Press" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
[We hope to be able to produce the next edition of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, No.37, very shortly. We would, however, like to clear as much of our existing stock of back-issues as possible prior to publication. Supporters can help us in two ways in this regard, either by making donations which will enable us to distribute more copies, and/or by providing address details of people who might be interesting in receiving copies.]
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Rhodesia was once a prosperous and thriving country, and the story of the author's enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit in that land, followed by his desperate escape from the country when, as Zimbabwe, it became ruled by a tyrant, imparts a realistic perspective of the present desperate plight of many exiles from a country that was once a paradise and the breadbasket for so much of Africa.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.110 : Mr. KARL ROOD of Durban.
Karl Rood was the younger brother of Mrs. Suzanne Smith (see obituary in the December 2000 edition of the SCN), and like her was very active in the Save Rhodesia Campaign/South Africa First Campaign, being Vice-Chairman of the Durban Branch of the organisation. Together with his daughters (who were then in their late teens - this being during the late 1970s) he staged a demonstration at the U.S. Information Service offices in Durban against the visit to South Africa of the trouble-making Sangford J. Unger of the shadowy "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace", a protest which gained prominent coverage in the Natal Mercury. We would very much like to learn what happened to Karl - as also his daughters.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
Two Rhodesian-orientated web-sites have both established special Book of Remembrance sections in tribute to the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith, which we believe many subscribers would like to visit and add their comments to.
The first is on the web-site of the Flame Lily Foundation, and can be accessed at :-
http://www.flf-rasa.org/home/index.html
The second is on the Rhodesians Re-Unite web-site, and can be accessed at :-
http://rhodesians.aceboard.com/300958-7017-0-Smith.htm
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
Sir,
All we hear from friends and family is the murders, robberies, rapes etc that happen on a daily basis in South Africa. A friend of mine lost her sister in the middle of August. She went to the Glynwood Nursing Home in Benoni with a severe ear-ache. They diagnosed her with meningitis. She was on the mend and was sent to the general ward. Not sure what happened there as she started vomiting within 3 days of being on the general ward. Within a week she was dead. She was 35 and she left behind a 14 year-old son from her first marriage and a baby of 6 weeks from her second marriage.
It makes you scared to think you are not even safe in hospital now. My husband's sister was telling me about a case in Boksburg where this woman went in for minor surgery, and when she woke up they had amputated her leg.
Yours etc.,
Andrie, Edmonton, Canada.
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TYRANTS OF THE WORLD UNITE
Sir,
I entirely agree with Jim Nicholson MEP that the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, should not have been invited to the European Union/Africa summit in Lisbon. Things have come to a pretty pass when such a dictator, who has wreaked so much havoc and suffering in his own country once described as "the bread basket of Africa", should be free to hobnob with other heads of state and be at liberty to issue inflammatory statements when so many of his own people are constantly being tortured and denied any freedom to oppose his tyrannical government.
His presence at the Lisbon conference, as Jim Nicholson so rightly stated, is an affront to the innocent victims of his vicious brutal regime. I applaud the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, for his decision to boycott the summit over Mugabe's attendance. However like Mr. Nicholson I am at a loss to know why Baroness Amos, a Minister of State, was sent there to represent Gordon Brown. I just wonder if she enthusiastically supported the German Chancellor, who lashed out at Mugabe's policies in her speech. Sadly there are far too few heads of state, particularly on the African continent, prepared to condemn Mugabe and instead they try to play down his disgraceful conduct. The situation in his troubled land wasn't even on the summit agenda for discussion.
I am also appalled at the attitude adopted by the Anglican Bishop of Harare, who continues to support Mugabe's policies. Is this because he became the recipient of one of the hundreds of farms seized by the government from White farmers? Far too many African countries have still got corrupt rulers who still sympathise with Mugabe's views on former British colonial rule in Africa. It was good that such a high-powered person like the Church of England Archbishop of York, the Rev. John Sentamu, wasn't afraid to utterly condemn Mugabe.
Yours etc.,
Wilfred Breen, Omagh, Co.Tyrone, U.K.
[N.B. This letter was originally published in the (Belfast) Newsletter, but we have been specifically asked to re-publish it here.]
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HERO OF OUR TIMES (1)
Sir,
Ian Smith has died. A great hero has passed away. I am deeply saddened.
Yours etc.,
Steve, Colorado, U.S.A.
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HERO OF OUR TIMES (2)
Sir,
Former Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, has died aged 88. He made his Unilateral Declaration of Independence for Rhodesia on November 11th, 1965 and led a war on terror against ZAPU (Zimbabwe African Peoples Union led by Robert Mugabe) and ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union led by Joshua Nkomo) for many years until sold out by Western governments.
A number of Australian and American Vietnam War veterans fought alongside the Rhodesians in the war as volunteers. The British Labour Government of Harold Wilson tried to get the RAF to take military action against the Ian Smith regime but the RAF refused. The Australian Government complied with UN trade sanctions against Rhodesia that were opposed by Country Party Minister for Territories Charles Barnes and veteran Liberal MP for Chisholm Sir Wilfred Kent-Hughes.
Unfortunately former terrorist Robert Mugabe is still alive.
Yours etc.,
Bob Vinnicombe, Sydney, Australia.
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SCRAP METAL (9)
Sir,
Like you I'm also very upset at the idea of a statue of Mandela being erected in London, Perhaps somebody could wait till it is all quiet and then put an old car tire around it fill it with petrol and after setting it alight phone the press and tell them how necklacing was done to the young women of tribes who wouldn't bow to The ANC while he was its leader. Surely anyone else doing such things would qualify for a war-crime investigation?
Yours etc.,
Don, Natal, South Africa.
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ROGUES GALLERY
In last month's edition of the SCN we stated that the anti-fascist magazine which had exposed Arthur Kemp's sinister connections was called "Spearhead". It has since been pointed out to us, however, that this was a mistake, and that the real title of the anti-fascist magazine in question was "Searchlight" - and furthermore that, ironies of ironies, "Spearhead" was actually the title of a now defunct overtly fascist journal! More recently we have also been informed that an article in a subsequent edition of "Searchlight" by David Williams provided further confirmation of Kemp's high-ranking involvement in the neo-fascist BNP outfit.
We would like to thank the supporter who has provided us with more information about the mysterious Brin Jenkins, the apparent lunatic who had suggested without any explanation whatsoever that the Springbok Club should be renamed the "Mugabe Supporters' Club", on the CDA's appalling discussion forum. Evidently this Jenkins idiot has stated elsewhere that he supports the BNP and is 72. It would seem therefore that the poor old fellow must be going gaga if he can make such a barmy unqualified suggestion - and furthermore it probably says a lot about the standard of intelligence of the average BNP supporter!
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OBITUARY
BILL "LEAHOUND" BINDING
Bill "Leahound" Binding, who sadly died during November aged 82, was a great patriot and a man of deep religious faith. Although conceived in Scotland (his true surname was Campbell, only adopting the name of Binding after his mother re-married), Bill was actually born in Paddington, and spent most of his early life in London.
After serving in the Royal Corps of Transport during the tail-end of World War II and the early post-war years, he emigrated to South Africa during the late 1940s, and one of his fondest anecdotes was to tell of being at Johannesburg Central Station when the results of the NP triumph at the 1948 General Election were being posted up. After living a very exciting and adventurous life in South Africa he returned to the UK where he became a driver on the London Underground system. He married relatively late in life, but sadly they never had any children, and his wife died tragically of cancer at a cruelly early age.
It was only after the death of his wife and his retirement that Bill really came into his own however. He threw himself into patriotic activity, becoming an active member of his local Hackney Conservative Association (for whom he was still a keen leafletteer right up until his final year), the London Swinton Circle and the Springbok Club/ELC, and in all these organisations he proved to be totally dedicated and absolutely reliable in his support - indeed setting a fine example to other younger and far fitter activists! He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Springbok Club at first attempt, and proved to be an ideal addition to this body. His contributions to ExCo debates were always short, relevant and to the point. He accepted majority decisions without a murmur, and his total loyalty to his friends and colleagues on the Committee was legendary.
Our sincere and heartfelt sympathies are extended to his nephew John Pope at this time of great sadness for him. All the time that our race can continue to produce men like Bill Binding then we will have NOTHING to fear for the future.
Bill's ashes will be mingled with those of his wife and scattered over Hackney Marshes later this month.
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January 2008 edition
Unlike many commentators we were not surprised in the least by the election of Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC (and thereby probably the next President of the "new" South Africa), and neither were we particularly alarmed by this development.
Zuma after all, unlike Thabo Mbeki, represents the true face of the unreconstructed ANC terrorist organisation, and is a direct throw-back to the convicted criminal Mandela. Unlike Mbeki, both Zuma and Mandela - and indeed Mbeki's own father - were "hands on" terrorists; Mbeki himself, however, was never directly involved in terrorist acts of violence, and spent many of his early years studying at the University of Sussex, where he presumably managed to learn something.
Mbeki's term of office as "new" South African president did not start very encouragingly; it saw a continuation of the anti-White terror, escalation of crime, and the economic disintegration which typified the Mandela years - plus of course some absolutely lunatic pronouncements about the causes of HIV/AIDS! Towards the end of his term of office, however, things started to change; the crime rate, although not reduced, did not increase at the same rate, and the economic collapse of the country was halted, so that incredibly there has even been economic growth in South Africa during the past couple of years! The reason for this seems to be obvious, and that is because Mbeki decided to embrace - if somewhat reluctantly - the capitalist system (evidently his years at the University of Sussex DID have a positive effect!). Needless to say this pro-capitalist stance has mortified the ANC's main string-pullers, the South African Communist Party - and this of course was the reason why the SACP abandoned Mbeki and orchestrated the pliable Zuma's victory at the recent ANC convention.
But was any other outcome ever possible? In years to come the Mbeki interlude will probably be viewed as a very surprising "golden age" between the predictable Mandela and Zuma eras. But this therefore begs another question; did the Whites of South Africa ever really deserve anything other than the renewed fate which now confronts them under Zuma? After all they voted 2 to 1 in both the 1983 and 1992 referenda for sell-out and surrender, which all but the most myopic must have realised would lead INEVITABLY to ANC terrorist rule by the likes of Mandela and Zuma.
In spite of the Mbeki interlude ANC rule can only result in one long-term outcome - the complete disintegration of the South African state into yet another Black African basket-case, with no place for Whites whatsoever. The sooner that this inevitability comes about the better as far as we are concerned, for the sooner the complete collapse occurs then the sooner that Western intervention to re-establish a civilised South Africa can be forthcoming. Our advice to all Whites still residing in that unfortunate land still remains the same therefore. You may have experienced a surprising - and undeserved - interlude of RELATIVE safety during the latter Mbeki years, but this era is rapidly approaching its end. Therefore get out of that sorry country and soon as you can and by whatever means you can!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC 2008 AGM
The Springbok Club/ELC held a most successful AGM last month. After very encouraging reports by both the Organiser and the Treasurer of the organisation, and a highly optimistic review by the Branch Development Officer, elections were held for the various office holders for 2008 (elections which were conducted by Mr. James Lewis). The current Executive Committee members were all re-elected, with the exception that Mr. Paul Armstrong was voted in to take the place of the late Bill Binding. [Specific positions within ExCo will be decided upon at the next ExCo meeting.] Ex-officio election results were that Ryan Kriste was re-elected as Official Translator, and Robert Shipley and David Williams were elected jointly as Overseas Liaison Officers. Two motions were then proposed and passed unanimously. The first stated: "It is proposed that the Springbok Club/ELC should endeavour every year to discover a statue or memorial somewhere in the UK to a great Imperial Patriot who has a significant birth anniversary during the year in question, and to stage a visit to the town or city where that statue or memorial stands in order to place thereupon a wreath in honour of the hero in question." The second stated: "It is proposed that the Springbok Club/ELC should purchase a suitable statuette, and to award it on an annual basis in memory of Mike Skelly to the person chosen each year by a majority vote of the Executive Committee as 'Patriot of the Year'".
After the business side of the AGM was concluded Dr. John Pope-de Locksley, the nephew of Bill Binding, gave a most enlightening eulogy to his dear uncle and long-standing and dedicated member of the SC/ELC who sadly died during November, which he illustrated by passing around photographs of Bill both whilst he was still living in South Africa and subsequently after his return to the UK.
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JANUARY SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC MEETING
Details of the next Springbok Club/ELC meeting are as follows :-
Guest Speaker : Mr. JOHN O'BRIEN (who will be giving a report-back on the memorial service which was held in tribute to the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith in Berkshire during December, and who will also be telling something about the work of the Rhodesians Worldwide Assistance Fund.)
Date : Wednesday 16th January 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs for 19.30 hrs.
Venue : THE ANTELOPE (the upstairs function room), 22 Eaton Terrace, Belgravia, London SW1W 8EZ (nearest tube station: Sloane Square - turn right out of the main entrance, then right again into the north side of Sloane Square which then becomes Cliveden Place, and finally left into Eaton Terrace where The Antelope is on the left).
John O'Brien emigrated to Northern Rhodesia as a child with his parents in 1958, before the family moved to Bulawayo in 1960. He was educated in Bulawayo, and then joined the Rhodesian Post Office upon leaving school. He did his National Service in the Army between 1976 and 1978, initially with the Leader Training Unit at Llewellyn Barracks, before being posted to C Company at Adams Barracks in Umtali, where he saw active service on the Mozambique border and in the Lowveld. He returned to the UK in 1980, where he has run his own highly successful employment agency business in Newbury for the past 18 years. He was a trustee of the Rhodesians Worldwide Assistance Fund for many years, and National Chairman of the organisation from 2003 to 2006. He is currently the Chairman of the Newbury Branch of Rhodesians Worldwide, and in this role was prominently involved in organising last month's memorial service in honour of the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith.
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FUTURE SPRINGBOK CLUB/ELC EVENT
During February the Springbok Club/ELC will be staging a special meeting at which a leading South African academic and publisher who has recently published a biography of Sir Winston Churchill's wartime secretary will talk on the subject of this empirical biography and other related matters.
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SPRINGBBOK CLUB/ELC BRANCH NEWS
The Kent Branch of the SC/ELC is planning an informal pub gathering in the north Kent area sometime during March 2008. Further details will be given in next month's SCN.
The London Branch of the SC/ELC is planning to hold a spring get-together, which hopefully will take the form of a braai. The branch is also planning a trip to see the finish of the Doggett's Coat & Badge race on the Thames in July/August next year.
A member of the ExCo of the SC/ELC anticipates being in Belfast during late April, when it is hoped that the Northern Ireland Branch of the organisation can be re-constituted. Could all Ulster-based supporters who might be interested in attending an informal gathering in this regard please e-mail: springbok@falklands.org or 'phone: 07711-188430.
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LONDON SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
At their Winter Buffet the London Swinton Circle welcomed Mr. Nigel Farage MEP, the leader of UKIP, as guest speaker. This proved to be an extremely successful and well-attended event, and Mr. Farage certainly didn't disappoint - giving an absolutely riveting account of the intrigues of the EU, and the reasons why the UK can - and must - withdraw from this iniquitous international entity.
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Details of the next London Swinton Circle meeting are as follows :-
Date : Thursday 24th January 2008
Time : 19.00 hrs
Venue: Committee Room 17 of the House of Commons (please check at Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament for the definitive location of this meeting, as Committee Room allocations are sometimes subject to alteration at short notice).
Guest speaker : Mr. Peter Bone MP (Conservative, Wellingborough). Mr. Bone, who was elected MP for Wellingborough in 2005, is a leading "Euroscepic" within the Conservative Party, and is a close confidant of the Rt. Hon. John Redwood MP.
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During March the London Swinton Circle will be welcoming Mr. Tom Wise MEP, a UKIP member for the East of England, as guest speaker.
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SOUTHERN AFRICAN AND OTHER MEMORABILIA FOR SALE
Robert Shipley has many items of memorabilia of special interest to Southern African and other patriots for sale. For more information and to make orders please 'phone 07748194373 or e-mail: robertshipley1729@yahoo.co.uk
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REPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE
Japan's whaling fleet is due to leave for the Southern Ocean Sanctuary in the next week and plans to kill 50 endangered humpback whales, as well as around 1,000 other whales, in the name of 'science'. Please e-mail your MP today and ask that he or she writes to Foreign Secretary David Miliband to help stop this needless killing.
Whaling is cruel – it can take over half an hour for a whale to die – and whales are worth more alive than dead. Whale-watching provides a valuable income to coastal communities in over 87 countries around the world.
There is no need to kill whales to study them. IFAW's whale research boat, Song of the Whale, carries out non-invasive research on marine mammals around the world; proof that you don't have to kill whales to study them. Scientists have condemned so-called 'scientific whaling' because new research methods make it easier than ever before to study whales without harming them.
Despite recent success at the last International Whaling Commission meeting, there are still many whales being needlessly killed.
The UK Government needs to raise the whaling issue with pro-whaling countries and encourage them to support whale conservation. Many whale species have still not recovered from previous intensive whaling. It is critical that the UK Government takes the lead in this grave animal welfare and conservation issue, and it is vital that we tell them so.
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain will again be holding a special celebration to mark Australia and New Zealand Days later this month. This event will take place on Saturday 26th January (Australia Day itself), assembling at the statue of Admiral Arthur Philip (the founder of Sydney) in Watling Street at the rear of St.Paul's Cathedral at 14.00 hrs. Following the laying of a wreath at the statue of Admiral Philip (who was born in the City of London) a short procession carrying the Australian and New Zealand flags will take place to St.Catherine Cree Church, Leadenhall Street, where a special service will take place at 15.00 hrs., followed by a reception in the St.Catherine Cree Church Hall.
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ENCYLOPAEDIA RHODESIA
The 1973 Version Reprint.
This was the first book of its kind to be published on Rhodesia and contains nearly 500 pages of alphabetical entries and numerous appendices covering many important aspects of Rhodesia. Information on Rhodesian history, geography, flora and fauna, the way of life of its peoples, law, central Government and various other aspects of Rhodesia is given in a clear, concise, form. This enables the reader to absorb the facts quickly, and makes possible the coverage of a large range of subjects. Numerous photographs, drawings and maps help to re-enforce many of the topics described. Encyclopaedia Rhodesia will go a long way in satisfying the need for a simple reference work on Rhodesia. This is an invaluable aid to those with an interest in Rhodesia.
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TELEGRAPH REFUSES TO PUBLISH TRIBUTE TO IAN SMITH
Following the death of the Hon. Ian Smith a supporter from Sussex, Mrs. Flora Jenner, tried to place a tribute to the great man in the Personal Columns of the Daily Telegraph. This personal insertion was to have read as follows :-
"Ian Smith. Humanitarian, Hero, Statesman. Betrayed by lesser men. Remembered with admiration."
What happened next was both bizarre and worrying. In Mrs.Jenner's own words :-
"This was accepted but I, myself, questioned the insertion of 'betrayed..', she said she would phone me back about this. Shortly after I had a call from the Telegraph saying that the entire notice could be inserted and that it was quite acceptable as it stood. Some hours later the paper phoned me again to say the 'High Ups' had vetoed the entire notice.
"I was told that an obituary would appear the next day and that I was 'not the only one' who had been refused this service.
"You probably read the obituary which was factual but not in any way giving him credit for his courage and resolution, rather the notion that he was deceitful and stubborn.
"My opinion about all this is that it had been decided that there was to be no public expression of admiration for him and that the common people must be silenced - as we always are on matters of significance. Meanwhile the establishment can have free reign to continue its usual p.c. line unchallenged. What is chilling is that we are not talking about The Guardian or the Morning Star - but the 'Tory-graph'!"
Did anyone else experience similar problems in trying to pay tribute to the Hon. Ian Smith we therefore wonder - either in the Daily Telegraph or elsewhere? We would be very keen to obtain details if anyone else did.
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FLAGS etc.
The Springbok Club/ELC now retails Union Flag lapel badges and key-rings, price £2.00 each (plus 20% p&p).
Payments should be made to "The Springbok Club" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
Copies of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile (editions 30 to 36) are still available price R5.00 or 50p each, as well as batches of 50 copies (including copies of the original S.A.Patriot) price R80.00 or £8.00 (plus 20% for p&p.)
Payments should be made to "Patriotic Press" and sent to: BCM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, UK.
[We hope to be able to produce the next edition of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, No.37, very shortly. We would, however, like to clear as much of our existing stock of back-issues as possible prior to publication. Supporters can help us in two ways in this regard, either by making donations which will enable us to distribute more copies, and/or by providing address details of people who might be interesting in receiving copies.]
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.110 : Mr. KARL ROOD of Durban.
Karl Rood was the younger brother of Mrs. Suzanne Smith (see obituary in the December 2000 edition of the SCN), and like her was very active in the Save Rhodesia Campaign/South Africa First Campaign, being Vice-Chairman of the Durban Branch of the organisation. Together with his daughters (who were then in their late teens - this being during the late 1970s) he staged a demonstration at the U.S. Information Service offices in Durban against the visit to South Africa of the trouble-making Sangford J. Unger of the shadowy "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace", a protest which gained prominent coverage in the Natal Mercury. We would very much like to learn what happened to Karl - as also his daughters.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
Two Rhodesian-orientated web-sites have both established special Book of Remembrance sections in tribute to the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith, which we believe many subscribers would like to visit and add their comments to.
The first is on the web-site of the Flame Lily Foundation, and can be accessed at :-
http://www.flf-rasa.org/home/index.html
The second is on the Rhodesians Re-Unite web-site, and can be accessed at :-
http://rhodesians.aceboard.com/300958-7017-0-Smith.htm
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
Sir,
All we hear from friends and family is the murders, robberies, rapes etc that happen on a daily basis in South Africa. A friend of mine lost her sister in the middle of August. She went to the Glynwood Nursing Home in Benoni with a severe ear-ache. They diagnosed her with meningitis. She was on the mend and was sent to the general ward. Not sure what happened there as she started vomiting within 3 days of being on the general ward. Within a week she was dead. She was 35 and she left behind a 14 year-old son from her first marriage and a baby of 6 weeks from her second marriage.
It makes you scared to think you are not even safe in hospital now. My husband's sister was telling me about a case in Boksburg where this woman went in for minor surgery, and when she woke up they had amputated her leg.
Yours etc.,
Andrie, Edmonton, Canada.
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TYRANTS OF THE WORLD UNITE
Sir,
I entirely agree with Jim Nicholson MEP that the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, should not have been invited to the European Union/Africa summit in Lisbon. Things have come to a pretty pass when such a dictator, who has wreaked so much havoc and suffering in his own country once described as "the bread basket of Africa", should be free to hobnob with other heads of state and be at liberty to issue inflammatory statements when so many of his own people are constantly being tortured and denied any freedom to oppose his tyrannical government.
His presence at the Lisbon conference, as Jim Nicholson so rightly stated, is an affront to the innocent victims of his vicious brutal regime. I applaud the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, for his decision to boycott the summit over Mugabe's attendance. However like Mr. Nicholson I am at a loss to know why Baroness Amos, a Minister of State, was sent there to represent Gordon Brown. I just wonder if she enthusiastically supported the German Chancellor, who lashed out at Mugabe's policies in her speech. Sadly there are far too few heads of state, particularly on the African continent, prepared to condemn Mugabe and instead they try to play down his disgraceful conduct. The situation in his troubled land wasn't even on the summit agenda for discussion.
I am also appalled at the attitude adopted by the Anglican Bishop of Harare, who continues to support Mugabe's policies. Is this because he became the recipient of one of the hundreds of farms seized by the government from White farmers? Far too many African countries have still got corrupt rulers who still sympathise with Mugabe's views on former British colonial rule in Africa. It was good that such a high-powered person like the Church of England Archbishop of York, the Rev. John Sentamu, wasn't afraid to utterly condemn Mugabe.
Yours etc.,
Wilfred Breen, Omagh, Co.Tyrone, U.K.
[N.B. This letter was originally published in the (Belfast) Newsletter, but we have been specifically asked to re-publish it here.]
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HERO OF OUR TIMES (1)
Sir,
Ian Smith has died. A great hero has passed away. I am deeply saddened.
Yours etc.,
Steve, Colorado, U.S.A.
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HERO OF OUR TIMES (2)
Sir,
Former Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, has died aged 88. He made his Unilateral Declaration of Independence for Rhodesia on November 11th, 1965 and led a war on terror against ZAPU (Zimbabwe African Peoples Union led by Robert Mugabe) and ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union led by Joshua Nkomo) for many years until sold out by Western governments.
A number of Australian and American Vietnam War veterans fought alongside the Rhodesians in the war as volunteers. The British Labour Government of Harold Wilson tried to get the RAF to take military action against the Ian Smith regime but the RAF refused. The Australian Government complied with UN trade sanctions against Rhodesia that were opposed by Country Party Minister for Territories Charles Barnes and veteran Liberal MP for Chisholm Sir Wilfred Kent-Hughes.
Unfortunately former terrorist Robert Mugabe is still alive.
Yours etc.,
Bob Vinnicombe, Sydney, Australia.
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SCRAP METAL (9)
Sir,
Like you I'm also very upset at the idea of a statue of Mandela being erected in London, Perhaps somebody could wait till it is all quiet and then put an old car tire around it fill it with petrol and after setting it alight phone the press and tell them how necklacing was done to the young women of tribes who wouldn't bow to The ANC while he was its leader. Surely anyone else doing such things would qualify for a war-crime investigation?
Yours etc.,
Don, Natal, South Africa.
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ROGUES GALLERY
In last month's edition of the SCN we stated that the anti-fascist magazine which had exposed Arthur Kemp's sinister connections was called "Spearhead". It has since been pointed out to us, however, that this was a mistake, and that the real title of the anti-fascist magazine in question was "Searchlight" - and furthermore that, ironies of ironies, "Spearhead" was actually the title of a now defunct overtly fascist journal! More recently we have also been informed that an article in a subsequent edition of "Searchlight" by David Williams provided further confirmation of Kemp's high-ranking involvement in the neo-fascist BNP outfit.
We would like to thank the supporter who has provided us with more information about the mysterious Brin Jenkins, the apparent lunatic who had suggested without any explanation whatsoever that the Springbok Club should be renamed the "Mugabe Supporters' Club", on the CDA's appalling discussion forum. Evidently this Jenkins idiot has stated elsewhere that he supports the BNP and is 72. It would seem therefore that the poor old fellow must be going gaga if he can make such a barmy unqualified suggestion - and furthermore it probably says a lot about the standard of intelligence of the average BNP supporter!
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OBITUARY
BILL "LEAHOUND" BINDING
Bill "Leahound" Binding, who sadly died during November aged 82, was a great patriot and a man of deep religious faith. Although conceived in Scotland (his true surname was Campbell, only adopting the name of Binding after his mother re-married), Bill was actually born in Paddington, and spent most of his early life in London.
After serving in the Royal Corps of Transport during the tail-end of World War II and the early post-war years, he emigrated to South Africa during the late 1940s, and one of his fondest anecdotes was to tell of being at Johannesburg Central Station when the results of the NP triumph at the 1948 General Election were being posted up. After living a very exciting and adventurous life in South Africa he returned to the UK where he became a driver on the London Underground system. He married relatively late in life, but sadly they never had any children, and his wife died tragically of cancer at a cruelly early age.
It was only after the death of his wife and his retirement that Bill really came into his own however. He threw himself into patriotic activity, becoming an active member of his local Hackney Conservative Association (for whom he was still a keen leafletteer right up until his final year), the London Swinton Circle and the Springbok Club/ELC, and in all these organisations he proved to be totally dedicated and absolutely reliable in his support - indeed setting a fine example to other younger and far fitter activists! He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Springbok Club at first attempt, and proved to be an ideal addition to this body. His contributions to ExCo debates were always short, relevant and to the point. He accepted majority decisions without a murmur, and his total loyalty to his friends and colleagues on the Committee was legendary.
Our sincere and heartfelt sympathies are extended to his nephew John Pope at this time of great sadness for him. All the time that our race can continue to produce men like Bill Binding then we will have NOTHING to fear for the future.
Bill's ashes will be mingled with those of his wife and scattered over Hackney Marshes later this month.
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