August 2023 edition
Much anger and controversy has arisen at the news that the bank account of Mr. Nigel Farage (the GBNews presenter and former leader of UKIP and the Brexit Party) had been unilaterally closed-down by his bankers, Coutts (part of the NatWest Group). This deeply concerning news was then followed by the revelation that bank accounts held in several other banks by other people who had expressed forthright views on political and social matters had been similarly closed-down. The matter which aroused the greatest anger, however, was the fact that although the Coutts management initially claimed that Nigel Farage’s bank account had been closed-down for commercial reasons, they subsequently admitted that they had lied and that it was actually closed-down for political reasons.
Every bank – indeed every commercial undertaking – should of course have the right to choose their customers and clients for whatever reasons they like (indeed we have fully supported those bakers and wedding providers who have refused trade from homosexuals), and Coutts have always been a very exclusive bank who have arbitrarily closed-down the accounts of customers with limited assets in the past, but there is something particularly disturbing about these recent politically-motivated actions by Coutts and other bankers. We live in an allegedly free country where everyone has the right to express any opinion which they like, provided that it is inside the law. Mr. Farage’s views, furthermore, are very mainstream, as he was a leading advocate of a “Leave” vote at the 2016 Referendum (which was victorious by over one million votes) and was leader of the Brexit Party which emerged as by far the largest party at the 2019 Euro Elections! The disgusting action by the Coutts management in closing-down his account was therefore not only morally wrong, but it was also VERY bad business practice, as it alienated most of their current and potential new customers!
Alas this latest disturbing development seems to be simply a further example of the weirdly-named “Woke” mindset, whose adherents seek to victimise and to “cancel” all those whose opinions and actions do not conform with their own warped views, particularly on such matters as support for multi-culturalism and acceptance of sexual perversions. That these ultra-Leftist egalitarians should find popularity amongst the lower dregs of society is of course not surprising, but what is unfathomable is why certain pillars of the capitalist free-market system – of which Coutts is of course a prime example – should wish to kow-tow to these vile ultra-Leftist forces, when the same ultra-Left by seeking to nationalise (i.e. steal) all means of “production, distribution and exchange”, would thus destroy their very existence!
Happily, however, the experience of Nigel Farage, and specifically by the courageous manner in which he has publicised what has happened to him via GBNews and elsewhere, has produced a massive backlash against all the “Woke” nation-wreckers. Already we have seen the leading Coutts executives Allision Rose and Peter Flavel resign in disgrace as a result of the whole diabolical episode, and it is expected that more “Woke” kow-towers will shortly be following them. The likes of Rose and Flavel are of course simply the outcome of the equally weirdly-named “political correctness” of the 1990s. Rose and Flavel were undoubtedly experts at all the sums and financial techniques involved in banking, but they knew NOTHING about human character and reactions. Just as the “politically correct” years of the 1990s came to an end with the Millennium, and by the 2010s had been superseded by a far more sane and decent mindset which brought us Brexit and Donald Trump, so likewise that wretched offspring of “political correctness”, “Wokeism”, is now in the process of disappearing into oblivion. We will have Mr. Nigel Farage and GBNews to thank a lot for this!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
The Springbok Club will be holding an informal gathering in central London on Sunday 20th August in order to welcome a prominent South African to the UK. All members of the Springbok Club will be informed about the precise details of this event during the next few days.
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On Saturday 30th September the Springbok Club will be organising the annual “Raising of the Flag” ceremony, this year to be held at Sudbury in Suffolk. This venue has been chosen because it was the childhood home of Leander Starr Jameson, who of course was a good friend and loyal assistant of Cecil Rhodes, and thus played a significant and most praise-worthy role in the foundation of Rhodesia in 1890. All members and supporters of the Springbok Club will be informed about the precise details of this ceremony in due course.
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In October the Springbok Club will be going to watch a Rugby match featuring a club with strong South African connections, in November it will be holding its annual UDI Day celebration buffet-meeting to be addressed by a prominent expatriate Rhodesian, and in December will be marking the Day of the Vow with a gathering in the Southend area. More details about all these events will of course be announced in future editions of the SCN.
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
In September members of the Patriotic Forum plan to hold an informal get-together in order to welcome a supporter from Australia who will be visiting the UK at the time. In October the Patriotic Forum plans to hold a meeting to be addressed by a significant British political figure.
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
Edition No.43 of The Imperial Patriot has now been published, and copies have been circulated to all UK and European subscribers, and to some of those in the rest of the world, and has already received several most favourable comments. If you are not already a subscriber to the magazine now might therefore be a good time to take out a subscription. A 12-issue subscription costs £19.00, R675.00, US$37.50 or Aus$60.00 (including postage). Payment may be made by cheque made payable to “Patriotic Press” and sent to: Patriotic Press, BM SAPAT, London WC1N 3XX, U.K., or by direct bank transfer, the details of which being given at the end of this SCN.
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MESSAGE FROM THE ANIMAL SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL
We have recently received the following very worrying report from the Animal Survival International organisation about a drought in Kenya and its threat to the country’s elephant and other wildlife populations. It reads as follows :-
“One of the worst droughts to ever hit East Africa is wiping out Kenya's elephants at a staggering rate. The cracked and parched landscape is barren, but for the decomposing carcasses of these once-magnificent animals. They dropped dead after searching in vain for water sources that no longer exist. Dehydrated and depleted, elephants die, utterly exhausted - further devastating a species already beset by habitat loss, poaching and human interference.
“The drought in Kenya has killed hundreds of elephants, along with buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, and other animals. We provided temporary waterholes last year, but because of the increasing severity of the drought and the vast areas involved, we must get more water to the elephants of Kenya and do so fast!
“Kenyan elephant populations face severe and mounting threats. Throughout the country, charcoal burners are destroying forests and, in the process, elephants' habitats. Then elephants wander into human-occupied spaces to find food and, as a result, are often injured or killed.
“The drought is the worst in the region for more than 40 years and shows no sign of abating.
“With each passing day, more parched animals are dropping dead, like the sad story of ‘Monsoon’, the matriarch elephant. ’Monsoon’, the miracle elephant, survived being shot FIVE times by poachers and even managed to give birth after her ordeal. A drought in northern Kenya killed her last month.
“Animals like ‘Monsoon’ are dropping dead beside dried-up water pans and nonexistent pastures. We cannot afford to lose wildlife in these staggering numbers. We have a plan to help, but we need your support right now.
“Young calves and elderly elephants are the first to die, their bodies unable to withstand long periods of dehydration. If herds lose their calves, elephant numbers will begin to diminish - along with our hopes for the species.
“We must get water to the parched plains of Kenya, and we must do so fast.
“We promise with your support to bring life-saving water to the region's elephants and other battered wildlife. With your support today, we will be able to send in trucks of water to meet the animals’ immediate and urgent need for water and drill boreholes to help reach vital water sources beneath the ground.
“Catastrophic drought is claiming elephant lives in alarming numbers. We must rush water to elephants dying of thirst. If we can raise $20,000 (£18,074), we can construct live-saving water troughs and repair and install new boreholes for the wildlife of Kenya. We are ready to build - but we need your support today.
“Saving animals and the planet, ”The Executive Director ”Animal Survival International
“P.S. Experts predict the drought will last well into 2023, if not beyond. That's at least another year, or longer, with no water for the elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras and other vulnerable and endangered wildlife of Africa. Once they are gone, they are gone. With wildlife everywhere facing worsening threats to their existence, we cannot afford to ignore the plight of these keystone species. We must do everything we can to help save their lives today.”
To contact Animal Survival International, or to make a donation to help get water to the parched plains of Kenya, visit their web-site at :-
https://animalsurvival.org
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2026 COMMONWEALTH GAMES DISASTER
In the article “Congratulations Birmingham!” which appeared in the latest edition of The Imperial Patriot (No.43) it was stated that “The 2026 [Commonwealth] Games will be held in Victoria, Australia, centred at the Kardinia Stadium, Geelong” and that “they could prove even more inspiring than Birmingham 2022!”. It was therefore with great astonishment and disappointment that we learnt just a few days after this edition was published that the Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews had announced the cancellation of his state’s agreement to host the 2026 Games, citing the cost as the reason!
Daniel Andrews had previously become notorious as an authoritarian kill-joy however, as under his premiership the Australian state of Victoria had imposed the most draconian restrictions in not only Australia but anywhere in the Western World during the Covid-1984 paranoia. The effects of these tyrannical regulations were undoubtedly the basic reason why the state of Victoria now apparently finds itself financially incapable of staging the 2026 Games! Not a very clever or attractive man, Mr. Daniel Andrews!
At the moment the fate of the 2026 Commonwealth Games seems very uncertain. There are rumours that London or Scotland may be prepared to step in and host the Games at short notice, and even that another venue in Australia may pick up the baton, though staging them a year later in 2027. Hopefully one of these possibilities will come to fruition – and hopefully also the wretched kill-joy Daniel Andrews will disappear from all official positions, never to be heard from again!
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NOTHING COMPARES TO FATHER TED
Following the recent death of the absurd Sinead O’Connor we have been reminded of a hilarious episode of the acclaimed Channel 4 comedy series Father Ted, in which the bizarre and confused Irish singer is brilliantly parodied. An on-line video of this episode, entitled “Rock a Hula Ted”, can be accessed at :-
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3hs9m5
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PETITION TO STOP IMMIGRATION
We have recently been alerted to a most estimable petition initiated by the British Freedom Party calling for a referendum on immigration. It can be accessed and signed at :-
www.britishfreedomparty.com/immigration_referendum
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SEARCH SERVICES FOR THOSE SEEKING LOST RELATIVES
Find any South African, even those who have emigrated. We also search Botswana, Namibia and ex-Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Please use the search request form at :-
http://www.bellemodel.biz/emails/emails.php?id=emails_from_SCN
Also check the list of South African expatriates/emigrants web-sites, which can be found at :-
http://www.bellemodel.biz/uruguay/uruguay.php?id=uruguay_from_springbk
and
http://www.bellemodel.biz/emails/expatriates/toplist_expatriates.php?id=toplist_expatriates_from_springbk
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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.297: Mr. PETER JOHNSTONE of Dunstable
Peter Johnstone was a young active member of the National Party of the UK during the mid-1970s. A staunch Protestant (he was a member of both the Orange Order and the London Branch of the Rangers F.C. Supporters Association), he also took a strong interest in the plight of his kith-and-kin in southern Africa, and when a number of his colleagues emigrated to southern Africa in order to give their active assistance to the struggle there he stayed in regular written contact with them, becoming an early subscriber to S.A.Patriot. A very intense man (he was once described as the most intense person in the NPUK!), he was also a very brave man, being prepared to confront the Left directly and voicing his opposition to Roman Catholics being allowed to play for Rangers most forthrightly (an incident which led to his exit from the London Branch!). Unfortunately contact with him ceased suddenly during the late 1980s however. It was known that he had earlier got married, but that this marriage had lasted for only a short period, so it was therefore speculated that this problem in his personal life had a dramatic effect on him. More recently, however, his copies of The Imperial Patriot have been returned to us as he is evidently no longer living at his last known address in Dunstable. It would be very interesting to learn what became of him.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
We have recently been informed about a most encouraging newly-founded campaigning organisation called Not Our Future. Although it was originally established in order to counteract the draconian regulations introduced during the Covid-1984 hysteria, it subsequently expanded its scope by opposing a broader range of developments which have bedevilled the Western World during the recent few years. It boasts a most impressive range of celebrity endorsers, and its web -site – which contains an opportunity to sign its pledge – can be accessed at :-
https://notourfuture.org/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT
Sir,
I will privately confess I have never been more deeply concerned. It's obviously open season on both Caucasians and Western Civilization. Hell, let's try to ruin Russia, too, right? I mean, Western globalists don't even try to hide their hatred of us anymore and clearly want to destroy a standard of living which was beyond anything my Great-Grandparents could have dreamed of, even though it was they and their ancestors who invented the modern world for us.
As of October 27th, 2022, we arrived at a point where America has not even 22 days of diesel fuel left, which is lifeblood of modern life, and also not just arrived at a point where plenty of Europe is felling forests and begging coal mines for heat this winter; but also have very sadly arrived at a point where Saudi princes are making far more sense than many Western political leaders. We're also dancing on the edge of WWIII with loose dirty nukes in the Ukraine and a Ukrainian 'president' who clearly has gone mad. I am simply terrified of what may befall all of us this winter, so any of us who desire a civil society have got to hang together. It's a damned shame that - as kind as they are - I have to rely on the Siamese for medical care and employment when it was my family who fought for the United States (...and very recently.)
Yours etc.,
Prof. Jason Jellison, Bangkok, Thailand
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CLIMATE OF REALITY
Sir,
The AGW claims for causing Climate Change are continually being promoted by many institutions, including the IPCC, the media, (BBC, Sky TV, The Guardian for example), and politicians. The UK is being subjected to crippling costs due to scrapping coal fired power stations (at the EU’s demand) and trying to replace them with renewable forms of energy. This is costing a fortune for UK taxpayers as renewables are unreliable, very expensive and demand huge subsidies. Our cars are being banned in favour of EV’s which again raise horrendous operational problems.
Incredibly this is all for absolutely no benefit whatsoever! In fact it is probably an enormous disbenefit to human existence. Why?
A graph has been produced which defines the effect on global warming due to increasing levels of CO2. This proves beyond any doubt that increasing CO2 has an imperceptible effect on increasing earth’s temperature.
This graph was produced for a lecture given by Dr Tom Sheahan and can be found, together with the full lecture, at the link :-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1cW_gwilmUFYPl_aATSw4lHXQmdf2yYKTd8xOlV8-s-vnIG7m-jPsHIls&v=CqWv26PXqz0&feature=youtu.be
Hence :-
1 Talking of reparations for third world countries is a ridiculously ludicrous idea as any increase in the worlds CO2 due to our industrial revolution has a vanishingly small effect on global warming.
2 Promoting Climate Change (meaning AGW induced Climate Change) is totally and criminally, FAKE propaganda.
3 Using CO2 levels to debate Climate Change is a worthless exercise as CO2 makes a vanishingly small effect on global warming. Especially, as the UK produces only 1% of the world’s 3% annual human production of CO2. YET the stupid Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy “provided £1,173,666.21 (excl. VAT) to the contractor responsible for delivering the ongoing UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory For the 2021/2022 financial year. The outputs of this work included providing the data for the 2020 UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report, and also a number of other products”. What a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money!
4 Reducing CO2 is probably having the opposite effect to that required for the world’s population! If CO2 level gets too low all world vegetation will die and mankind with it! More CO2 increases world greening and plant growth! (Proven by satellite observations and greenhouse use of CO2).
5 Dr Sheahan also makes the point that Methane, CH4 and Nitrous Oxide, N2O are also insignificant with regard to global warming and even less effective than the vanishingly small effect of CO2.
Yours etc.,
Jerry Wraith, Wiltshire, U.K.
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PREMIER SHOT
Sir,
Spencer Perceval was the first British Prime Minister to be assassinated in Westminster in 1812. He was the first to go down. Maybe the East African coolie Sunak will be the second?
Yours etc.,
Richard Windsor, Kent, U.K.
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OBITUARY
JANI ALLAN
It was with great sadness and devastation that we learnt of the recent death of our good friend and supporter Jani Allan.
Jani Allan sadly had a tragic life. She was born in South Africa in 1952, but immediately put up for adoption – something which she didn’t learn about until she was 18 (this present writer once offered to try to discover who her biological parents were, but she asserted that she never wanted to know). She was adopted by John and Janet Allan in the Transvaal, and given the name of Isobel Janet Allan. Although she was usually known as Janet, her adoptive mother always referred to her as “Juliette” (a name which she used as her on-line “handle” far later during her life).
Jani proved to be a highly talented child, leading many to speculate that her biological parents were prominent people in South African society. She excelled at music, performing on the piano with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra at the tender age of 10, and at English Literature – a talent which would later lead to her career as a leading journalist. After school she studied Fine Arts at Wits, and following graduation took up a position as an English teacher at Bryanston High School, whilst at the same time starting her journalistic career as a freelance writer penning film and classical music reviews. It was not long before these brilliant reviews were noticed however, and she was offered a full time position as a columnist on the Johannesburg Sunday Times, where her name of Janet was shortened to “Jani” for space reasons – and the name stuck! Her Sunday Times column soon became required reading for English-speakers in the Transvaal, and so captivating did her columns prove to be that it was said that “she made words sing”!
In spite of the fact that she was brought up in a very liberal family, and that the Johannesburg Sunday Times was an extremely Leftist newspaper in the South African context, Jani herself was clearly a conservative at heart (probably as a result of her natural DNA), and in fact expressed herself in more and more patriotic terms as the sell-out of South Africa became more apparent during the 1980s. Her patriotism was pan-South African patriotism however, and she had no time for Afrikaner separatism. Her clear support for her English-speaking Whites put her more and more at odds with the management of the Johannesburg Sunday Times however, but so popular had her column become that they realised that they couldn’t drop her. Her popularity moreover grew after she appeared on a late-night SABC chat programme wearing a baseball hat (and not an awful lot else!), where her gorgeous beauty caused many’a male heartbeat to soar!
It was at about this time that a disaster befell Jani Allan however, which was alas to have long-term detrimental effects upon the rest of her life. Her Sunday Times editor sent her to interview the buffoonish leader of an Afrikaner-separatist outfit, and her resulting column was laden with sarcasm and irony. Her sarcasm was lost on most people however, but several followers of the pantomime Afrikaner-separatist outfit did manage to spot it, and as a result she received several death threats. After one of these death threats almost turned into reality, when one of her car wheels was loosened and fell off whilst she was driving, she decided that it was time to leave South Africa, a decision re-enforced by the fact that she believed the Johannesburg Sunday Times was about to sack her, and by the deteriorating situation in South Africa as the sell-out approached.
She relocated to the UK where she quickly obtained work through her brilliant writing talent. She found freelance work with The Spectator the London Sunday Times and other periodicals, and through her journalistic contacts got to know Boris Johnson well. Alas however her earlier sarcastic South African article then came back to haunt her, and the bizarre rumour circulated that she had had a sexual relationship with the oafish leader of the Afrikaner-separatist outfit who she had interviewed. She successfully threatened to sue the London Evening Standard and a small magazine for libel for publishing this ludicrous rumour, but when she tried to sue Channel 4 they surprisingly decided to fight the case. The resulting court case proved one of the strangest and most disturbing in history, proving decisively that “The Law is an Ass”! One of her former diaries was anonymously sent to Channel 4’s lawyers at the court by courier service, and a former close friend made some outrageous accusations against her. The fingerprints of the ANC terrorists (about to be handed power in South Africa) were clearly all over these unexplained developments, and as a result the jury astonishingly found in Channel 4’s favour.
Faced with massive legal bills she somehow managed to re-locate to the United States, settling near the Pennsylvania/New Jersey border. Alas her writing style did not seem to match that of the United States, and she struggled to find work. She was however offered a job as a “shock jock” with a Cape Town radio station, so she surprisingly returned back to South Africa. After a few quite controversial radio programmes there was a second attempt on her life however, when her flat was fire-bombed. It is not known whether it was operatives from the newly-installed ANC regime who carried out this attack, or whether it was by supporters of the Afrikaner separatist outfit, but the outcome was that Jani decided to return to the United States.
Still unable to obtain any meaningful journalistic work she was forced to find employment as a mature model and as a waitress in a restaurant. It was at this stage that she first made contact with our movement, expressing admiration for the work which we were doing and writing occasional items for the SCN. She also promised to speak at a Springbok Club meeting if she ever managed to return to the UK, but alas this will now of course never be the case. Contact over the ‘phone, by text and by e-mail became increasingly erratic over recent months, and she told us that she had been in hospital, so the news of her death therefore didn’t come as a great surprise to us – but it caused us great sorrow even so.
Jani Allan married twice, once in South Africa during he early 1980s and once in the United States during the early 2000s, but alas neither of these marriages lasted more than a few months and she sadly had no children. Like so many other aspects of her life her romantic life proved tragic. By all accounts she ended her life living a near hermit-like existence in New Jersey, surrounded by her only true friends, her beloved Pomeranian dogs. We would extend our condolences to them if only they could understand.
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