SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
September 2012 edition
On 29th August Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced that he was pulling out of a “Discovery Invest Summit Leadership Conference” (whatever that might be. – Ed.) in Johannesburg because of the presence of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair - his reason being that he regarded Tony Blair as a war criminal because of his role in the Western intervention in Iraq during 2003. A few days later Tutu went further and called for both Tony Blair and President George W. Bush to be arrested and put on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Tony Blair can of course be accused of many reprehensible acts during his period in office – but his support for the Western intervention in Iraq
Perhaps Tutu’s apparent support for the tyrant Saddam Hussein isn’t really surprising however. He after all has been closely linked with the ANC regime which currently misrules South Africa South Africa
Alas, like so many liberals throughout the West, Tony Blair refused to recognize the ANC as the terrorist organization which they so obviously were and to condemn them accordingly prior to assuming office. The realities of power undoubtedly tempered Tony Blair’s premiership however, and few would argue that that he finished his tenure in office as an infinitely better leader than he begun it. In spite of this he has still unfortunately – unlike many White liberals from South Africa
It is not Tony Blair and George W. Bush who should be brought to trial at the International Criminal Court for war crimes therefore. It should be the ANC gang which Tutu supports.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB SEPTEMBER EVENT
The Springbok Club’s September event will consist of a trip to Greenwich on Saturday 29th September in order to see both the restored Cutty Sark and Greenwich Park, the venue for all the Equestrian Events at the recent London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. After visiting both of these places the Springbok Club party will finish the day at one of the famous riverside pubs at Greenwich for an evening meal. The provisional arrangements are for everyone to gather outside the Cutty Sark Station on the Docklands Light Railway from 13.00 hrs to 13.15 hrs, though anyone having difficulty locating the party can always ‘phone 07711188430 for rendezvous details throughout the day.
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FUTURE SPRINGBOK CLUB ACTIVITIES
The Springbok Club has been invited to participate in a three-day celebration of Trafalgar Day being staged by New Britain
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, and in December will be holding its traditional Day of the Vow commemoration meeting.
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The Swinton Circle’s 2012 AGM has been put forward to Thursday 27th September. All current members of the Swinton Circle Yorkshire family and was the uncle of Admiral Lord Edward Hawke. After a successful military career, during which he served under Marlborough Low Countries , he entered politics, and finished his parliamentary life as MP for Portsmouth
In October the Swinton Circle will be addressed by a famous former Conservative MP, and another renowned former Conservative MP will be the organisation’s guest speaker in November. Full details about both these events will be appearing in next month’s SCN.
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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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New Britain will be staging a special three-day celebration of Trafalgar Day this year over the weekend of 20th/22nd October. The details are as follows :-
1) A trip to Chatham Historic Dockyard (where HMS Victory was of course built) on Saturday 20th October, rendezvousing at the 11.30 hrs at the main visitors’ entrance. There will be a charge of £10.00 per head to enter the Dockyard.
2) A special reception at Pleasington near Blackburn in Lancashire on Sunday 21st October, commencing at 15.00 hrs, at which it is anticipated that the Mayor of Blackburn will be in attendance.
3) Participation in a wreath-laying ceremony at Admiral Viscount Nelson’s grave in St.Paul’s Cathedral on Monday 22nd October at 11.00 hrs, followed by a visit to the Hall of the Stationery and Newspaper Makers’ Livery Company, and then a buffet lunch at the crypt of St. Magnus the Martyr commencing at 14.00 hrs. A charge of £6.00 per head will be asked for this buffet lunch.
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ROSS RIGHT ANGLE
George McKay runs a number of excellent Internet forums featuring news stories from around the world which we believe will be of great interest to many of our readers. His main Ross Right Angle blogspot can be accessed at :-
In addition he also runs two FaceBook groups under the titles of “RRA Inc.” and “RRA Support”, which many might like to join.
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URGENT APPEAL FROM THE SANWILD WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
We have recently received the following most disturbing message from Louise Joubert of the SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary :-
“Dear SanWild friends,
“This morning we need to call on you to please help us out of serious trouble. A donor who undertook to make a generous donation at the end of April have still not made good on their undertaking and the funds that were suppose to be in our account to help feed the SanWild lions has not arrived. We also do not have any concrete feedback from this donor which means that we cannot even negotiate any interim funding with our bank and we simply can no longer wait for them to make good on their undertaking.
“Sadly this default by our donor has resulted in the SanWild lions not receiving their meal on Saturday and this morning we need to make urgent arrangements to ensure the 16 lions are fed. I will greatly appreciate your help and I am sorry to burden your regular donors with such crisis at such short notice. All donations, no matter how large or small will be appreciated. Please help us feed our lions by tomorrow at the latest.
“Kind regards,
”Louise Joubert - Founder trustee, SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary”
We hope that some of our readers will be able to help SanWild overcome this financial crisis so that they are able to continue with their most important work helping to protest South Africa
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NEWS ABOUT “BREAKER” MORANT
A supporter has recently sent us this very interesting news story concerning moves to obtain a posthumous pardon for Harry “Breaker” Morant, which we believe will be of great interest to many of our readers. It reads as follows :-
“Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant, a bush poet-turned-soldier who was executed by the British military authorities during the Anglo-Boer War, is a step closer to a posthumous pardon after the Australian government said yesterday it would ask Britain to re-open the case.
“Morant and another Australian army lieutenant, Peter Handcock, faced a firing squad in 1902 for killing 12 unarmed Boer prisoners. A third man, George Witton, was jailed for life. Descendants of the three believe they did not receive a fair trial, and have been campaigning for years to clear their names. The affair was dramatised in the 1980 film Breaker Morant, directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Edward Woodward.
“Now Australian officials are backing the men's families, with the Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, saying he planned to take up the case with the Government in London. After examining the evidence, he told ABC radio: ‘My preliminary conclusion ... is that there was a denial of procedural fairness.’
“Mr McClelland is preparing a submission to the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, outlining apparent defects in the court-martial procedure, including the fact that the defendants received inadequate legal representation and were denied access to certain evidence. If those defects were confirmed, he said, the convictions would be overturned.
“The three never denied the shootings, but claimed they acted in the fog of war. They also maintained that Lord Kitchener, the commander of British troops in South Africa, had handed down secret orders not to take any prisoners.
“Morant was a legendary horse-breaker, originally from Somerset, who is thought to have emigrated to Queensland in 1883. He worked on cattle stations in the outback and wrote ballads about rural life that were published in The Bulletin magazine. A womanising, hard-drinking charmer, he volunteered for the Anglo-Boer War at time when Australia was still a collection of British colonies.
“The killings of prisoners took place over four days, and followed the death of the men's commanding officer, Captain Frederick Hunt, in an assault on a Boer stronghold. Hunt was a close friend of Morant's, and the latter was reportedly enraged by accounts that his body was mutilated. His last words, as he faced the firing squad, were: ‘Shoot straight, you bastards!’
“Morant and Handcock are the only Australians ever executed for war crimes. Witton was released from prison after three years following a petition by 80,000 Australians to King Edward VII.
“Last year, Mr Hammond's predecessor, Liam Fox, rejected the families' petition for a pardon. But James Unkles, a military lawyer who has spearheaded their campaign, said yesterday he was confident that the Australian government's intervention would lead to the convictions being annulled.
“Handcock's great-grandson, Michael, told The Independent earlier this year that the execution had long been ‘the cause of great shame for the family’. ‘I'm hoping the record can be set straight now,’ he said.
“’Let the evidence be examined, let the truth come out and, if need be, let the history books be rewritten.’”
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SCN BLOGSPOT
We have recently established a special blogspot to house all back copies of the SCN, so readers and other interested parties may have instant access to them. Although it will undoubtedly take some time to download all editions onto this blogspot, some back issues are already there, and may be accessed at :-
http://springbokcybernewsletter.blogspot.co.uk/
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S.A.PATRIOT-IN-EXILE
We are happy to be able to announce that the next edition of S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, No.37, is now well on the way to publication. We will still be requiring further funds in order to cover the printing costs and to distribute it effectively of course, and donations to assist in this task can be made via PayPal at the Springbok Club web-site (www.springbokclub.org.uk) or by cheque made payable to “Patriotic Press” and sent to: S.A.Patriot-in-Exile, BM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, U.K.
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.).
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"THE SEVEN WATCHMEN" by David Ruppert
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"THE SAINTS" - DVD versions of the book about the history of the RLI
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.166: TONY & ELAINE LONG of Durban
Tony and Elaine Long (no relations to either Ian Long or Vic Long - see February 2005 SCN) hailed from the UK South Africa UK
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
Derek Turner, the editor of the magazine Quarterly Review, recently had an excellent thought-provoking article written upon the death of the US
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Sir,
Having recently retired, I have spent a little time during my travels thinking about the past in the Republic of South Africa North Island
During the 1990's my wife had spent many a day in and out of hospitals with a heart problem, most of our energy was spent on trying to get her right. During 1995 she had major heart surgery. It was during this period that the RSA was given over to the ANC. I have a question. Was a referendum ever held to give the South African Government authority to negotiate with the ANC?
Yours etc.,
Ray Absalom , New Zealand
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Sir,
The problem with history is that the people who create it and the people who suffer the consequences are usually two different groups. (Most of the liberals who created the ‘new’ South Africa
The problem with the future is that nobody will really know until it is too late.
The problem with the future is that nobody will really know until it is too late.
Yours etc.,
H. Koch, Pretoria Transvaal .
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MILITARY PLAN
Sir,
One of the reasons I lack respect for teachers as a profession is that far too many of them are unpatriotic and anti-military. Anyone who has the insolence to be offended at the sight of British servicemen in uniform is not fit to live in Britain
One of the things that disillusioned me with the Conservatives was their penny-pinching attitude towards the forces - the result, I suspect, of replacing officers and gentlemen with accountants and spin-doctors as MPs. I would double defence spending, including a big raise and improvement in conditions for servicemen - for instance, all those honourably leaving the forces would be guaranteed jobs and housing. Other departments would be told to stop whinging and follow the forces' example by managing on less.
Yours etc.,
M. Taylor London , U.K.
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ROGUES GALLERY
A short while ago we were contacted by someone calling himself Ryan Marcovich on FaceBook who initially expressed great interest in the activities of the Springbok Club, although he never actually joined the organization. Initially, having no reason to doubt his bona fides, we responded in a friendly manner inviting him to a number of Springbok Club meetings, though he never turned up to any of them. We then suddenly received a most offensive and disturbing FaceBook message from him however, in which he made vague and unsubstantiated allegations of harassment against a leading member of the organization, which could be construed as being libelous. The name Marcovich would appear to be eastern European in origin, though according to his FaceBook page he was brought up in Natal
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