SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
August 2012 edition
With the London 2012 Olympic Games now completed, we can look back upon a most successful, historic and energizing experience which will undoubtedly live in all our memories for ever.
All the dire predictions of the “doom-mongering” and “moaning minnie” brigades were of course proved false – indeed utterly ridiculous. There were no log-jams of traffic in London
For patriotic forces in Britain UK
To be sure, there were alas a few unsavoury aspects surrounding the Games. Certain aspects of both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies clearly went against the Olympic spirit. Although much of the Opening Ceremony was excellent, other parts, such as the section about the NHS, were plain silly – and most reprehensively those selected to carry the Olympic flag into the stadium were both a disgrace and an insult. The fact that the Olympic tradition of one single flame-lighter was jettisoned was also a huge disappointment. The Swinton Circle
The inclusion of so many “plastic Brits” in Team GB (although somewhat lower than at one time feared) was also a matter of great concern. Most prominent among these, of course, was “Mo” Farah. Now “Mo” Farah seems a very affable and likeable person, and has proved himself to be a worthy champion whose achievements must be honoured - but the fact remains that he was born and brought-up in Somalia United States Northampton Somalia Somalia Britain
Let us not dwell on these minor criticisms of London 2012 however, but rather concentrate on the far, far greater positive outcomes. The Games produced an upsurge of national pride and glory, an increase in personal joy and euphoria throughout the population, and a legacy and sporting infrastructure which will benefit the nation for decades ahead. For this Lord Coe and the rest of his LOCOG team deserve the highest of accolades! Let the triumphs of Wiggins, Ainsley, Murray Wilson Rutherford , Brownlee, Campbell
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SPRINGBOK CLUB OLYMPIC ACTIVITIES
Needless to say, many members and supporters of the Springbok Club attended several of the events at the London 2012 Olympics, with those unlucky enough not to obtain tickets for any paying events managing to watch some of the many “free” events by the roadside. Perhaps the most successful of these was the Springbok Club party which watched the Women’s Marathon from the Victoria Embankment. Unfortunately the massive crowds made a good viewing of this event almost impossible – but the enthusiastic atmosphere proved something not to be missed, as also was the convivial gathering in a near-by pub afterwards, where all were able to watch Andy Murray’s fantastic victory in the Men’s Singles Lawn Tennis final on the TV screen during the afternoon!
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FUTURE SPRINGBOK CLUB EVENTS
Alas the planned re-launch of the Hampshire Branch of the Springbok Club has had to be postponed slightly, as leading Hampshire member Peter Fisher unfortunately has to enter hospital for a non-critical operation shortly. Hopefully the re-launch will therefore be staged in early 2013 – unless any other supporter from the county would like to take the lead?
In its place the Springbok Club will be organizing its planned trip to see the newly restored Cutty Sark at Greenwich
The Springbok Club has been invited to join a three-day Trafalgar Day celebration being staged by New Britain London
In November the Springbok Club will be staging its annual UDI Day dinner, at which it is hoped that a prominent ex-Rhodesian will be guest speaker.
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Following a two-month break for the Olympics and Paralympics, the Swinton Circle
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Membership fees and donations to the Swinton Circle can now be made via PayPal by accessing the organisation's web-site at: www.swintoncircle.co.uk [Simply 'click' on the line "PayPal = The safer, easier way to pay online" at the bottom of the site's Home Page. If the error message "This content cannot be displayed in a frame" then appears simply 'click' on the line "Open this content in a new window".]
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The Swinton Circle
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As reported above, New Britain will be celebrating Trafalgar Day this year with a special three-day itineray of events over the weekend of 20th/22nd October. More precise details will follow.
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PARALYMPIC FEVER
The London 2012 Paralympic Games will soon be upon us, and although neither the Springbok Club nor the Swinton Circle are organizing any specific trips to see any of its competitions, if any readers are planning to watch any of the “free” events then please let us know, and maybe we can arrange an informal get-together.
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LATEST REPORT FROM THE I.F.A.W.
We have recently received the following disturbing report from Fred O’Regan, the C.E.O. of the International Fund for Animal Welfare :-
“We're sickened by a recent attack on elephants, and I'm writing you with this urgent plea to help them.
”IFAW staff have just returned from Bouba Ndjida National Park in Cameroon where we witnessed the aftermath of a horrifying slaughter of these majestic animals.
”To date more than 300 elephant carcasses have been found and poachers have claimed a total of 650. That's almost half the Park's total population of these beautiful creatures slaughtered - in just a couple of months!
”Entire elephant families – in Cameroon and in other countries - are being wiped out by assault rifles, stabbed with poison spears, even electrocuted with hidden cables!
”We need to train and equip rangers to protect our majestic elephant friends.
”We need to end the illegal trade in elephant ivory by continuing our groundbreaking law enforcement work with INTERPOL and our critical training of customs officials.
”We need to protect vital elephant habitat and care for the animals wherever they live.
”We need YOU - You can help stop the elephant massacre.
”Ivory poachers will stop at nothing to get their hands on ivory - and these killers are using a sickening new method: They trap a baby elephant and wait for its mother to come to rescue it. When the mother arrives, they spray her with bullets and kill her in cold blood.
”Elephants are so much like us. Females in particular are very family-oriented and social. They care so deeply for their young they will risk their own lives to protect them. And they grieve for their lost loved ones, often standing vigil over their bones for days on end and even ‘burying’ them with brush and dirt.
”There's no denying - they need and deserve our protection. And they had it – for a short time. The trade in ivory was banned in 1989. Demand dropped and poaching plummeted.
”But some governments got greedy. They wanted to sell their huge stockpiles of ivory in so-called ‘one-off’ ivory sell-offs. The ‘one-off’ sale of 1999 was followed by a second in 2008...and the message was clear for the poachers: since governments will eventually sell the ivory, let's kill elephants, collect their tusks, and slip our illegal ivory into the legal market.
”Elephants are dying every day because of this illegal trade, and they need your help now.
”Please give now to stop the elephant massacre. Together we can make a better tomorrow for elephants and all animals.
”Thank you,
”IFAW staff have just returned from Bouba Ndjida National Park in Cameroon where we witnessed the aftermath of a horrifying slaughter of these majestic animals.
”To date more than 300 elephant carcasses have been found and poachers have claimed a total of 650. That's almost half the Park's total population of these beautiful creatures slaughtered - in just a couple of months!
”Entire elephant families – in Cameroon and in other countries - are being wiped out by assault rifles, stabbed with poison spears, even electrocuted with hidden cables!
”We need to train and equip rangers to protect our majestic elephant friends.
”We need to end the illegal trade in elephant ivory by continuing our groundbreaking law enforcement work with INTERPOL and our critical training of customs officials.
”We need to protect vital elephant habitat and care for the animals wherever they live.
”We need YOU - You can help stop the elephant massacre.
”Ivory poachers will stop at nothing to get their hands on ivory - and these killers are using a sickening new method: They trap a baby elephant and wait for its mother to come to rescue it. When the mother arrives, they spray her with bullets and kill her in cold blood.
”Elephants are so much like us. Females in particular are very family-oriented and social. They care so deeply for their young they will risk their own lives to protect them. And they grieve for their lost loved ones, often standing vigil over their bones for days on end and even ‘burying’ them with brush and dirt.
”There's no denying - they need and deserve our protection. And they had it – for a short time. The trade in ivory was banned in 1989. Demand dropped and poaching plummeted.
”But some governments got greedy. They wanted to sell their huge stockpiles of ivory in so-called ‘one-off’ ivory sell-offs. The ‘one-off’ sale of 1999 was followed by a second in 2008...and the message was clear for the poachers: since governments will eventually sell the ivory, let's kill elephants, collect their tusks, and slip our illegal ivory into the legal market.
”Elephants are dying every day because of this illegal trade, and they need your help now.
”Please give now to stop the elephant massacre. Together we can make a better tomorrow for elephants and all animals.
”Thank you,
“P.S. We have made such progress through the years in our fight to save elephants from ruthless poachers. But the poachers are now stepping up their attacks. Please help us protect elephants and make a better world for all animals.”
The IFAW can be contacted to make a donation to this worthy cause at :-
http://www.ifaw.org/united-kingdom/
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SAD NEWS CONCERNING THE BRITISH EMPIRE & COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM
We have recently heard the sad news that the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol has been forced to close. Evidently it was being forced to leave its existing location at the entrance to Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station because the site was required by the railway authorities for platform and workshop extensions, and a planned re-location to London did not prove financially viable in the present economic climate. Its collection of materials are evidently being distributed to other Bristol museums and archives.
The Springbok Club organised trips to the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum twice in the past, and although it contained a number of regretable oncessions to “political correctness” (which were observed particularly during the second visit) it was even so on the whole a very praise-worthy and objective presentation of the glorious history of the British Empire.
We hope of course that somehow this institution can be re-born in the future, hopefully without any concessions to “political correctness”. The Springbok Club is of course willing to become actively involved in any restoration initiative, but undoubtedly a benefactor or benefactors able to make substantial financial contributions will be needed – and we are looking here at BIG money.
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CAN YOU HELP?
A year or so ago we made friendly contact with those behind the web-site of the “Afrikaner Broadcasting Corporation”. Sadly recent copies of SCNs sent to this organisation’s last known e-mail address, afrikanerbroadcast@gmail.com, have been returned to us as it is evidently no longer recognized, and its web-site doesn’t appear to have been updated for some time. Does anybody know what has happened to the organization therefore, and how they can now be contacted?
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ANSWER REQUIRED FROM UKIP LEADERSHIP
A contact has recently alerted us to the bizarre – indeed almost unbelievable – claim that certain leading UKIP officials not only opposed London Paris
UKIP, of course, prides itself on being the most patriotic British political party, which firmly opposes EU entrapment and Franco-German hegemony. For leaders of this party to side with a bid against their own country’s interests is therefore not only hypocritical – it seems almost treasonable!
We know that current UKIP leader Nigel Farage has spoken glowingly about the achievements of Team GB competitors at the 2012 Olympics, so we therefore call upon him either to confirm or to deny this bizarre claim – and if there is any truth in it to state what action the party has taken against the hypocrites involved. If it is true and no action has been taken to remove them then we are afraid that UKIP will forfeit all credibility!
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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: BM SAPAT, London
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: BM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX , UK
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.165: SHANNON-LEIGH of Durban
Shannon-Leigh (her name may have been spelt Shannon-Lee) was a breath-taking beauty who lived in Broad Street , Durban
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
With the London 2012 Paralympics shortly about to begin, we believe that many readers would be very keen to have a look at its official web-site, which can be accessed at :-
http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RIGHT PRAISE
Sir,
Your essay “Why we got it wrong about the Afrikaners” is undoubtedly the best analysis of what went wrong in South Africa
My only question is why you originally wrote this under a nom de plume? You must be a very modest man! If I wrote anything as masterful as that I would be shouting it from the rooftops!
Mr. Lindon Litchfield from Australia
Yours etc.,
Hugo van der Westhuizen, Pretoria , South Africa
[Once again, the article in question can be found at :-
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HANCOCK’S HALF BLOOD
Sir,
Very interested by your reference to the death of Anthony “Tony” Hancock in July’s SCN.
I did some business with the man some years ago. Initially we got on well: he was a very friendly person with a sharp sense of humour and great love for his native Sussex
After a while I discovered a dark secret about Mr. Hancock though. He was not only a Holocaust Denier, but even more shockingly an open anti-Semite. When I saw a poster on his wall saying “Long Live Saddam Hussein” (this was the time of the 1st Gulf War) I naturally took my trade elsewhere.
From what I know Mr. Hancock’s father was British (also from Sussex
Yours etc.,
“Cromwell”, Devon , U.K.
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LESSON OF HISTORY
Sir,
As a history graduate and enthusiastic history student, I believe that compulsory history in schools should involve only British history in strict chronological order. I am a "kings and battles" man and proud of it - not only do I believe in the Great Man theory of history, but they are more interesting than Municipal Corporations Acts.
Children should learn about our great leaders - Caractacus, Boadicea, Alfred, Henry II, Edward I, Edward III, Henry V, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and the merchant venturers, Marlborough, Clive, Wolfe, Nelson, Wellington Newton
Yours etc.,
M. Taylor London , U.K.
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