December 2020 edition
At the time of writing there seems little chance of the US Electoral College declaring that President Donald Trump has been re-elected as US President – even though there was substantial evidence of vote rigging in several key states during last month’s presidential election.
This however is by no means the disaster that it may at first seem. Two facts are indisputable: firstly the United States is now almost exactly split down the middle, with one half of the electorate consisting almost exclusively of patriotic White Americans and the other mainly of uassimilatable immigrants and ultra-Leftists who hate their own country, and secondly so intense is this division that whichever side the courts declared had lost would be convinced that the presidency had been stolen from them, and would thus be very, very angry. In such a situation it is surely far better to be attacking than on the defensive!
We must also bear in mind another important fact. When Barrack Hussein Obama was elected president in 2008 the Leftist media and other branches of the establishment declared that this had been because the demographic composition of the United States had changed dramatically, and that as a result there would never again be a White president. Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 proved this to be wrong of course, and his de facto victory this year only confirmed this fact. The percentage of non-White residents in the United States has clearly been exaggerated wildly by the ultra-Leftist forces for their own nefarious reasons.
It is difficult to predict exactly how the anger of the masses of Trump supporters convinced that the election had been stolen from them will react, but it is bound to have profound implications. With Donald Trump having won more than half of the popular vote (after all the fake postal votes are discounted) the stage seems set for a Second American Civil War. We must just hope that it won’t prove as bloody as the First Civil War.
The Biden presidency will almost certainly prove to be a complete farce. He himself will be the oldest US President ever to take office, and his stumblings and loss of memory during the presidential debates show clearly that he is not a well man, and when the shady dealings of his son Hunter are also taken into account it seems highly unlikely that he will be able to last four years in office. After that Kamala Harris will undoubtedly prove way out of her depth, and so by 2024 the GOP will be set to resume power to restore order to a crumbling society.
Hopefully, after Donald Trump has shown the light and led the way, the GOP will select a “son of Trump” (or perhaps a “daughter of Trump”) as their candidate in 2024, who will possess both the vision and the will-power to take the drastic steps which will be needed to ensure that never again can an Obama or a Biden assume power. As the late, great John Jewell often said: “The days ahead will inspire us!”.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
Alas, the continuing “lockdown” situation in London has meant that the Springbok Club will not be able to organise its traditional Day of the Vow commemorations this year – not even in a limited form. Many Springbok Club members will however be remembering this important date in South African history in their own individual way, as it is hoped that all readers of the SCN will be able to do on 16th December. We are hopeful however that all the Covid-1984 paranoia and “lockdown” lunacy will be over in time for next year’s commemorations, as indeed it is hoped that regular Springbok Club events will be able to be resumed as soon as possible in 2021.
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
The Patriotic Forum is still aiming to hold a series of Zoom meetings in place of “live” meetings whilst the “lockdown” restrictions are still in place. A brief experimental session was held earlier this month, and a larger-scale experiment is being planned for the near future, prior to actual on-line meetings taking place. If you would like to become involved then please let the Patriotic Forum know by e-mailing: swinton@netcomuk.co.uk
The organisation recently came across a leaflet which was distributed by activists involved with both the Swinton Circle and New Britain (the component parts of the Patriotic Forum) during the early 1990s, which advocated the replacement of the bust of the terrorist leader Mandela on the London South Bank with a statue to John Chard VC – the hero of Rorke’s Drift. The Patriotic Forum hopes to revive this campaign, and to highlight the heroism of John Card VC next year by staging both a PowerPoint presentation about his life and career, and a return visit to the RE’s Museum in Gillingham.
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
Edition No.41 of The Imperial Patriot has now been completely written, and should be published before the end of the month. Further funds are still required in order to cover postage costs however, and it is hoped that readers will be able to assist in this regard. Details about how to make a direct bank transfer of course appeared in the previous two editions of the SCN, but cheques made payable to “Patriotic Press” can always be sent to: Patriotic Press, BM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, U.K.
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MESSAGE FROM FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL
We have recently received the following most concerning report from the Fauna and Flora International organisation, which reads as follows :-
“Sun bears are the smallest bears on the planet. Unassertive and endearing, they keep themselves to themselves - spending their time clambering around South-East Asia’s jungles, searching for insects, eating honey and digging holes.
“In doing so, they play a pivotal role in many tropical forests - they create nesting holes for birds, aerate soils for saplings and protect trees from insect blights. So, if we lose the bears, we lose a crucial piece of the jigsaw and the whole ecosystem starts to unravel.
“And that’s a reality we’re getting closer and closer to. Sun bears are incredibly slow to reproduce. Mothers will care for each cub for many years before breeding again, so the species relies on its 25-year lifespan to keep numbers healthy.
“But bushmeat poachers are cutting those lifespans short at a terrifying rate. This isn’t for sustenance - they’re slaughtering these vital animals to feed a demand from social climbers and businessmen vying to gain bogus ‘status’ by eating exotic bushmeat.
“The fact that it’s contributing to their extinction seems - sickeningly - to be more of a motivation to consume them quickly than a turn-off. And it’s not just restricted to sun bears - pangolins, tigers and countless other species from the same habitats are being slaughtered to satisfy this barbaric social fad.
“Loggers are already carelessly cutting their home to pieces and we’re in a situation where we need every ounce of help to have a chance of saving their lives, yet this additional attack is utterly, utterly needless. It needs to end – soon - before the damage is tragically irreversible.
“So, through donations we’re changing behaviours - going directly to the source of the problem in the South-East Asian societies driving the gruesome demand. We’re using a consumer-focused strategy to make sure that anyone who eats a set of severed sun bear paws isn’t seen as a trendsetter, but as a social outcast. That way we can help end this brutal bushmeat trend, and keep these crucial little bears clambering around the wild in peace.”
The Fauna and Flora International web-site can be accessed at: https://www.fauna-flora.org
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SOCCER SUPPORTERS RESTORE HONOUR TO THE GAME
When the Association Football authorities in England and elsewhere in the Western World made the disgusting decision to debase themselves and their players by insisting that they perform the “taking of the knee” act of the American Marxist insurrectionists whilst still playing behind closed doors, one of our supporters observed that they would never try this in front of crowds as it would be met with booing and derision. The brave piece of initiative by Jake Hepple in hiring a light aircraft towing a banner reading “White Lives Matter – Burnley” over the Manchester City ground where Burnley were playing was the first sign that this prediction was correct, and now most encouragingly the booing of the “taking the knee” subservients at Millwall and Colchester United has shown this observation to be totally accurate! Already Millwall officials have ensured that this insulting act is discontinued by their players, and an increasing number of sportsmen and women have openly stated their refusal to kow-tow to the forces of darkness in this way. By their actions Jake Hepple and the Millwall and Colchester United supporters have restored some honour to the English game, and furthermore have shown that the up and coming generation possesses more decency and backbone than their parents’ generation ever demonstrated. We salute them all!
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HILARIOUS HYSTERIA
Channel 4 recently broadcasted a programme with the unbelievable title of “Is Covid racist?”. Even by Channel 4’s “politically correct” standards this certainly took some beating! It was presented not by a professional broadcaster but by a Negress health worker – and it certainly showed, indeed the entire production seemed of an extremely amateurish standard. Still, it gave everyone a good laugh!
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VILE ATTACKS ON MORAL CRUSADER
We made the praiseworthy CitizenGO organisation, an international pressure group which gallantly campaigns for moral and family values, our “Recommended Web-Site of the Month” in the February 2018 Edition of the SCN. Recently, however, we have received the following most disturbing message from Caroline Farrow, the organisation’s Campaign Director for the UK :-
“This is a difficult email to write, and I’m sure it’s not easy to read. But it is crucial that you do so.
“My family and I are being targeted by radical LGBT [a term used to describe a variety of sexual deviants] activists and their global cronies who have hacked a computer, bullied my children (even threatening to throw acid on one), targeted my parents' home and now again hauled me into to court with false charges of anonymously ‘misgendering’.
“I am grateful Ignacio Arsuaga [the organisation’s President] and so many CitizenGO members are standing with me financially and in prayer.
“These have been trying times for my family and me, but the only thing that would make them worse is if they succeed in derailing CitizenGO’s efforts we all have fought so hard for.”
To contact the CitizenGO organisation and to express your solidarity with Caroline visit their web-site at: https://go.citizengo.org
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HONOUR RECENT HEROES
A reader has informed us about an apparent dispute which is taking place regarding where a magnificent statue to Margaret Thatcher – looking resplendent in her Baroness’s robes – should be situated. Some wish it to be erected in her home town of Grantham, whereas others believe it should be placed in the Houses of Parliament. To be sure Margaret Thatcher had her faults and made a number of mistakes during her term of office, but she undoubtedly proved a better Prime Minister than any of her five predecessors, and of any of her five successors for that matter, and as the first woman ever to hold Britain’s highest political office she clearly deserves honouring. Why not therefore commission a second identical statue, so that one can be placed in Grantham and another positioned in the Houses of Parliament? Furthermore we would advocate that statues are also commissioned for those two great contemporaries of hers who influenced her policies greatly – Sir Keith Joseph and Professor John Enoch Powell!
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SEARCH SERVICES FOR THOSE SEEKING LOST RELATIVES
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BILTONG AND BOEREWORS
Springers Biltong offers a marvellous range of biltong, boerewors and drywors – all of the very highest quality, reasonably priced, and fully registered and licensed with their local authority Their web-site can be accessed at :-
http://www.springersbiltong.com/index.html
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BOOK OFFERS
“LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALFRED JAMES TOMLINSON: MEMOIRS OF AN AFRICAN PIONEER AND BSAP OFFICER" is now available at Amazon.com, and can be shipped to anywhere in the world. This book contains excerpts from Lieut. Tomlinson's writings detailing his experiences as a member of the BSAP in Southern Rhodesia, where he rose from the rank of an ordinary trooper to retire as the commanding officer. It also includes the personal story of Majaqaba Ncube, a man who was enslaved by Lobengula when his entire village was massacred by the chief's soldiers. After he escaped, Lieut. Tomlinson saved him from certain death and gave him a job. They lost contact and were reunited after 45 years, when Majaqaba presented Lieut. Tomlinson with an earthenware jar.
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CREST PUBLISHING BOOKS
The latest book published by Crest Publishing is entitled: “BOWLS - QUIRKS, CHIRPS AND ANECDOTES". This is not an instruction manual but rather a cheerful, humourous and sometimes controversial chronicle about the game and its history worldwide. Written to celebrate 40 years in the sport by the author, Glenn MacAskill, it should be of interest to all bowlers and other sports enthusiasts.
For more information about all books published, or to make an order, please contact Crest Publishing at: P.O.Box, 4178, Honeydew, Johannesburg, 2040, South Africa, e-mail: glennallanmacaskill@gmail.com, or visit the Crest Publishing web-site at: www.crestpublishing.co.za. Special discounts are available to ex-servicemen, Rhodies and Springboks!
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"THE SAINTS" – a unique documentary in support of the book on the brief history of the RLI.
DVD available along with other premium titles of historical interest from Msasa Enterprises. Visit www.rhodesianvideos.co.za or write to msasasa@mweb.co.za for more information. UK contact telephone: 07415 753 340.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.265 – Mr. JON MORRIS of South Africa, Tower Hamlets, Bournemouth and Wareham.
Jon Morris first made supportive contact with the Springbok Club shortly after the organisation was established during the early 1990s, and also proved to be a keen supporter of Dennis Delderfield’s New Britain organisation at the same time. Although British by birth, he had lived much of his early life in South Africa, though he had returned to the UK and settled in Tower Hamlets in the east end of London. Sadly a relationship with an east end lady turned sour, and he consequently moved to Bournemouth. He had previously worked as a bit-part actor, and it is believed that upon his move he took up acting as a full-time profession, and as a result started to move around frequently. He is known to have moved to Wareham in Dorset, but alas correspondence sent to his last known address there was returned as he had evidently moved on yet again. Jon Morris was an extremely friendly, talented and loyal person, and several former colleagues would very much like to re-make contact with him. If anyone can help in this regard we would be very grateful.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
The “Every Legal Vote” web-site seeks to establish whether there was wide-scale electoral fraud during the recent US Presidential Election and to collect evidence about this in order to order to present to the US Department of Justice. Their all-encompassing web-site can be accessed at:-
https://everylegalvote.com/country
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ENEMY WITHIN
Sir,
Where are Roelf Meyer, Leon Wessels, Dawie Jacobs, Dr. Roelf Botha and the rest of the deplorables who continue to keep whitewashing these creatures calling themselves a government in South Africa?
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-29-stripped-bare-looting-till-there-is-nothing-left-of-gautengs-rail-network/
Yours etc.,
G.Graser, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
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COWIE CORNER [2]
Sir,
“Old Anchorian” was not completely correct in his letter published in your October edition. Andy Cowie’s sister Margaret was not nicknamed “Let me entertain you” because she looked like Natalie Wood (although I do admit that there was a passing resemblance), but rather because of her performances of burlesque dance routines at youth club sessions. In short she was a total flirt who loved to tease every male she was in contact with. She had a penchant for older men however, and was once caught in a passionate embrace with a youth club leader some 30 years older than her! One public-spirited person tried to warn her parents about the dangers of her licentious behaviour by anonymous letter (believed to be the youth club leader’s wife), but alas instead of heeding these warnings all hell broke loose. Shortly after this one of her younger sisters did fall pregnant whilst only in her mid-teens. They should have listened to the warnings rather than causing a fuss!
Yours etc.,
“A friend of a friend”, Gillingham, Kent, U.K..
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COVID-1984
Sir,
Trump's experience, and he is an elderly man, shows the virus is NOT as bad as promoted. Why are we not being told the truth? Is there an agenda here?
Yours etc.,
Reg A.Watson, Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia..
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DOWN THE SEWER
Sir,
Mandela was a serial-killer bomber and a jail-bird homo butt-monkey. South Africa had dropped from a first world nation to a basket-case sh1t-hole country even by 1995 when I was there. 1600 OFS farms have burnt during the last two days. I just can’t wait for Tutu’s funeral soon and CNN and BBC playing all the news about a shack-nation in rags, starving because they destroyed the farming system that fed them for the last 300 years. South Africa is such a sick nation. They love their “heroes” who were nothing but mass serial-killers and lunatics who have bankrupted the richest country in Africa. ANC terrorist logic has brought South Africa to 60% of the population jobless. My brother-in-law has just sent me an e-mail asking me to help him leave South Africa. The attacks on Whites, Indians and the people in the Cape is being organised by ANC rats. We must never forget the White liberal maggots who for 50 years in South Africa worked daily at propelling the bloodthirsty killers in the ANC to power. The big joke now in South Africa is they truly think they can vote ANC out of power. It’s who counts the votes who wins in Africa. Azania must die!.
Yours etc.,
Richard Windsor, Canterbury, Kent, U.K.
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CREMATION OF A NATION
Sir,
South Africa is burning. 247,000 acres of the Free State is on fire. It is arson, started by the militant wing of the ANC Government, the EFF = Economic Freedom Fighters. They are aiming to wipe out the White farmers and civil war is in danger of breaking out.
I have forwarded this video to the mainstream media in this country and to two US Politicians - Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State and Dan Crenshaw, an Aide to President Trump : https://youtu.be/S2mJL7XRqJk
Yours etc.,
Jane Webster, Bath, Somerset, U.K...
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SOL KERZNER: The Miniature Minotaur
Following the death of Sol Kerzner earlier this year, the following article written by the acclaimed journalist Jani Allan makes fascinating reading :-
RATHER as is the case of a banana-peel victim, a scuffle at a bus-stop or an altercation at a lighted window, the doings of Southern Sun Hotels’ chief, Sol Kerzner, make for compulsive viewing.
Whether he’s looking for a ”Mary Poppins” to mind his children, collecting the Pope’s autograph, marrying an ex-Miss World or planning a modest R25 million addition to Sun City, Sol pounds the headlines with the repetition – and delicacy - of a sledgehammer.
Who is this miniature minotaur with the college-boy grin, who opens up hotels the way other people open up boxes or winegums? If you be seeking a 40-minute interview with Sol, better you be unhampered by anything akin to sensitivity … and best you be blithely indifferent to the numerous interrogations and several brush-offs that will follow the request. The man, often running, frequently jumping, and seldom standing still, evidently finds personal interviews slightly less appealing than the bubonic plague. I am asked, albeit very politely, not to be late. I’d rather be late for the Last Judgement!
But when I DO get to see him, he is polite and helpful. If a little remote and … bored? He pumps an unsmiling ‘Hi, nice to see you!’ into my hands and then lights up the first six centimetres of the two-and-a-half metres of cigarettes that he will have smoked by the end of the day. A glance at our pocket-sized conquering hero reveals what the women’s blads are wont to call ‘a craggily good-looking face with piercing grey eyes’. Dress? If he has a relationship with a tailor it must be merely a nodding acquaintance. He once admitted to being mistaken for a maintenance man in his own Beverly Hills Hotel, where he used to wander around in a pair of short and old takkies. ‘I pretty much don’t care what the papers say about me’ he drawls in his Bez Valley-Bronx accent. Er … well, the interview must go on as they say in the business.
Was he an ambitious child? I ask him, by now my voice a panic-stricken soprano. A faint grin creases the sandblasted-sensual features. ‘Naah. When I was at school I wanted to be a motor mechanic. That was about the extent of my ambition. It was when I matriculated at Damelin College and my academic results started looking pretty good that I decided to do a CA at Wits.’
In 1953 his father bought the Minora Private Hotel in Durban so Sol moved down to Durbs to help out in the hotel.
At that stage the hotel industry was in the doldrums. There were few a la carte restaurants and no night-clubs to speak of. The only diversion, it seemed, to most hotel residents, being to watch the nocturnal antics of the dread Durban cockroaches. Even the mice, it was rumoured, wore overalls. The gap was as wide as the proverbial barn door – and the Kerzners took it. In 1958 Morris Kerzner (Sol Senior) bought the Palace Hotel (which was licensed) and thus it came to be that Sollie the K found himself playing the role of barman. He nightly served up black eyes with Bloody Mary’s to Runyonesque characters like Harry the Horse and Nick the Greek. ‘I got good bouncing experience there!’ he smiles wryly.
Soon afterwards, with what was to become his accustomed speed (something between that of a Lamborghini and a Lear Jet), he bought-the-Astra-Hotel-threw-in-accountancy-opened-the-Talk-of-the-Town-bought-the-site-of-the-old-Torquay-Hotel-and-built-the-Umgeni-Hotel. Meanwhile out lady’s talents were not going unobserved. South African Breweries made him an offer that he couldn’t refuse: ‘Come into partnership with us and put together a chain of hotels.’
The year was 1969. Southern Sun now has an impressive 28 hotels forming its Herculean five-star links. Sol’s currency is dedication, enthusiasm and commitment. This, coupled with an incisive mind ever at the ready with a fast judgement and decision, makes him the prime force behind the Southern African tourism industry. ‘Good tourism will follow good hotels – and what could be better for our country?’ he explains, briefly flashing (white) porcelains and (orange, white and blue) patriotism.
Perhaps the ultimate monument to Sol’s vision and drive is Sun City. Sobriquet’s include ‘Solcatraz’, ‘Sin City’, ‘Sol City’. ‘Sol’s Pilansberg Palace’, etc. The R30-million Phase One of the mammoth project was completed in 17 months, CF, his accustomed speed. The Sun Palace is people-impacted: by last December, far more than a million visitors had tugged the recalcitrant one-armed bandits, squeezed into the casino and gaped at the wall-to-wall flesh montage that is the lavishly-mounted Extravaganza stage-show. To promote this Sybarite City, Sol staged a R3-million world heavyweight title fight (for 86 000 local fans in the stadium, 3-million on SATV and 500-million on international TV links), between Gerrie Coetzee and John Tate in October 1979. And if you may be forgiven for thinking that THAT might be a hard act to follow, for Sun City’s first anniversary , he staged a second world-title fight at the resort (aimed at 500 million world TV viewers), between Gerrie Coetzee and Mike Weaver.
Nothing on this scale, with this level of success, has been done before anywhere in the world. ‘You take a chance’, Sol grins. ‘Calculate the odds, research the international market properly, establish the Southern Africans’ taste, style, appetite and enjoyment, aim at giving them a good time at the best quality that they can afford – then go for it!’ ‘So far it works. It is clear to even the most casual observer that to have achieved what he has, on a personal, commercial, political and international level requires something more than the mentality of a merry innkeeper with a view to making a quick buck. If Sol has one major point of ego, it’s in the measure of his own concepts. If you say nothing else to him about Sun City, tell him it is unique.
The Americans, in the equivalent resort-chains of Las Vegas and Atlantic City say it. Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, George Benson, Jack Jones, Leo Sayer, Gloria Gaynor, Mike Weaver, John Tate, Telly Savalas, Lee Trevino and Gary Player, to name just a few, have said so. Sol, who is most at ease in the US-styled computer-talk developed from NASA, Kissinger and latterly Alexander Haig, would say: ‘In a highly competitive international marketing situation, estimating the viability of a tourism game-plan operation against Vegas and Noo Jersey, you shape your back-up from the leaders of the world’s entertainment, sport, convention and holiday-making bases. Which, roughly translated. means that whatever the giants of the hotel industry are doing in Vegas and New Jersey, Sol will do better.
‘Maybe I’m too much of a perfectionist!’ he concedes, finally, drawing deeply on a cigarette.
A man who works 18-odd hours a day, he doesn’t consider his work any less fun than a game of mega-Monopoly. ‘I make a good point of enjoying each day,’ he says, ‘and I certainly believe that you get out of life just as much as you put into it!’
Another simple, but severely applied principle, is ruthless honesty – at all times and at all costs.
‘Life’s too short to worry about anything being exposed’, he frowns. ‘I’m not afraid of growing old. I’m not sure that I’ll ever be an old man. Maybe in the chronological sense – but that’s all.’ His is a household name, along with those of his showbiz buddies: Joanna Lumley, William Smith, Peter Falk, Sean Connery – you name them, he knows them, wines and dines them, brunches and lunches them. But he will sharply point out that he is not a member of the ‘jet set’ or even the ‘Peacock set’.
‘I love people, I love my friends, but most people would be surprised to know that I stay home five nights a week with Anneline and the kids.’
Where to now, Sol, after zooming to the throne-room (bed-and-breakfast included) at the top of the international high-rise? No doubt the explosive dynamism that keeps the Southern Sol constantly in orbit around the globe will continue to generate the audacious and innovative ideas that spring from the mind of this – yes, he deserves to be called it – unique man. A man with his stubby million-rand finger perennially prodding the public’s pulse, his eyes constantly roving the horizons of the future, Kerzner has the power of a Prometheus unbound.
This interview originally appeared in the [Johannesburg] Sunday Times
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