November 2024 Edition
When Donald J. Trump won the US Presidential Election in 2016 he won 30 states resulting in 304 Electoral College votes and 46.1% of the popular votes. Even though the precise result of the 2020 US Presidential Election is still disputed because of widescale suspicions of electoral fraud, it is still clear that he didn’t perform quite as well as in 2016. In 2024 however he carried 31 states resulting in 312 Electoral College votes and 50.5% of the popular vote. This was not only a magnificent personal achievement and a vote of confidence in President Trump himself, but it also reflected a massive sea-change in the American and international zeitgeist.
President Trump’s return to power will not only have enormous beneficial effects for the United States – a substantial economic uplift through tariff reforms and the dropping of all the ridiculous “net zero” regulations, and an effective halting of illegal immigration and the repatriation of illegal immigrants already in the country – but will also herald huge positive changes in the international arena. The fratricidal military conflict in the Ukraine will probably swiftly be brought to an end and Israel will be supported far more forthrightly in its battles against Islamic terrorism.
But Donald Trump’s glorious victory in the United States should not be viewed in isolation. Across the West patriotic forces are clearly now on the ascendancy. Patriotic “right of centre” governments are already in place in Hungary and Italy, and the current coalition government in New Zealand is certainly a lot preferable to its predecessor! In the Netherlands both the Partij Voor de Vrijheid and the Boer Burger Beweging now hold prominent positions in government, and in France the Rassemblement National seems to be on the verge of power. Even in the UK, where the “first past the post” electoral system makes advancement for new parties very difficult, ReformUK made a very significant break-through at the recent General Election, and with the ruling Labour Party already in deep trouble and split down the middle (particularly over how to deal with President Trump!) and the Conservative Party seeming to have committed suicide by farcically electing a negress foreigner as leader, it would seem that ReformUK could be far closer to power than was thought possible. The dark despondent era when “wokism” seemed to be entrenched globally from the 1990s until very recently now seems to be drawing to an end therefore, and Donald Trump’s great victory could have an even more encouraging knock-on effect throughout the West in this regard.
Now therefore is a time to rejoice – and to rejoice eagerly – but not for too long nor to the detriment of all else, as there is still much work to be done. Donald Trump’s victory must be an inspiration to all patriots - not to sit back on their laurels, but to re-double their efforts!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
Last month the Springbok Club organised the annual "Raising of the Flag" ceremony, which this year took place at Fox Corner near Guildford in Surrey, the place where Frederick Courteney Selous (after whom the Rhodesian Selous Scouts Regiment was of course named) lived for most of his married life. After rendezvousing at the Fox Inn the Springbok Club party assembled outside the near-by house where Frederick Courteney Selous had lived, and here Sgt. Graham Gillmore (ex-Grenadier Guards, RLI and South African Pathfinders Company), the Parade Commander, supervised the ceremony. The Union Flag was raised by Miss Sarah Mort and the Rhodesian Flag by Miss Hannah Mort, after which the current Springbok Club chairman said a few words about the legacy of Frederick Courteney Selous, followed by the singing of both the British and the Rhodesian National Anthems. Toasts in Sandeman's Port were then raised to the King and Queen, the immortal memories of Frederick Courteney Selous and Peter Sladden, and to all those who had fought and died for the Rhodesian cause. The Springbok Club party then returned to the Fox Inn where Mr. Gary Vincent presented the second part of his PowerPoint trilogy about the life and career of Frederick Courteney Selous, and where - surprisingly - they were joined by members of the Cardiff Arms Park Male Voice Choir, who gave some splendid renditions of tradition Welsh hymns and arias at the bar, to round off a truly inspiring and memorable day!
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Details of the Springbok Club's important November meeting are as follows :-
Date : Saturday 16th November 2024
Times : Assemble from 14.00 hrs onwards. Meeting to start at 15.00 hrs
Venue : Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (the upstairs "Johnson Room"), 145 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2BP (entrance via the side passageway, Wine Office Court). Nearest tube stations: Chancery Lane and Blackfriars.
Guest Speaker : Mr. Geoff Hill
Geoff Hill was the co-founder and the first editor of Rhodesians Worldwide magazine. For more than two decades Geoff Hill has worked as chief Africa correspondent for The Washington Times, and writes regularly for The Spectator. He was also the first non-American to win a John Steinbeck Award for his work.
Geoff was the guest speaker at the Springbok Club's April meeting when we enjoyed our biggest attendance for a long time, and he certainly didn't disappoint as he gave a "closed door" briefing on events in Southern Africa, which ended with a standing ovation and a volume of questions, all of which he was happy to answer.
A lot has changed since then in Southern Africa, including elections in South Africa, Mozambique and Botswana (which has resulted in a new government).
The future however remains uncertain. Russia and China are playing a long game across the region, and Islamic State seems to be winning the war in northern Mozambique. Britain and the United States are doing their best to keep up, but both have new leaders with little grasp of the region.
Much of what Geoff shared with us in April never makes the news, and so once again Chatham House Rules will apply.
If you want to learn the untold truth about today's Africa then you are warmly invited to attend this Springbok Club meeting. For more details either e-mail: springbk@netcomuk.co.uk or 'phone: 07711188430.
[ Geoff's take on Botswana, with some of his personal views about Duma Boko, can be found in his latest article for The Spectator, which can be found at :- https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-fragile-democracy-has-bloomed-in-botswana/]
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In December the Springbok Club will be holding a special gathering in order to commemorate the Day of the Vow, at which the life and career of the organisation’s Honorary President, Mr. Peter Fisher, will be told and honoured. In January the Springbok Club will be holding its 2025 AGM, and later during the spring of 2025 the organisation will be staging the third in the trilogy of PowerPoint presentations by Mr. Gary Vincent about the life and achievements of Frederick Courteney Selous (which will include a trip to the Natural History Museum) and a weekend’s trip to Bournemouth in order to meet up with a prominent Rhodesian.
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
The Patriotic Forum will be holding an event in late January 2025 to celebrate both Burns’ Night and Australia Day, and in February will be staging a gathering to celebrate New Zealand Day. Later during the year it will hold meetings to be addressed by a prominent member of the ReformUK party, an acclaimed author and by a leading official of an important patriotic political think-tank.
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MESSAGE FROM THE ANIMAL SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL
The following report which we have received from the Animal Survival International organisation about the plight of rhinos in the “new” South Africa causes great worries. It reads as follows:-
“An orphaned rhino calf barely survived an attack by hyenas after losing his mother to poachers. He needs your immediate support for life-saving veterinary care and rehabilitation.
“As the African rhino poaching crisis continues to wipe out animal populations across the country, its latest victim - just 18 months old - is fighting for his life.
“Now named Bavati, the young calf was orphaned when his mother was slaughtered by poachers, effectively leaving him for dead as rhino calves can suckle for up to two years and cannot fend for themselves without their primary caregiver.
“Defenceless and surely confused, he was then pursued by a clan of hyenas who sensed his weakness. Without his mother to protect him, Bavati was attacked, his face and tail badly injured by the pack. It is miraculous that the calf survived the attack, but now, he needs more than a miracle to pull through - he needs YOU,
“The young bull calf was already experiencing unimaginable pain following the traumatic loss of his mother. As if he had not suffered enough, he was then chased and severely injured by hyenas!
“When a mother rhino is poached, her calf will often die soon afterward due to injuries inflicted by poachers, attacks by lions or hyenas, or starvation. This compounds an already escalating crisis as rhino numbers fall and further hampers the regeneration of this widely hunted species.
“As soon as our partner, the Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary (CFW), was alerted to Bavati’s case, they rushed to the scene with a team of wildlife vets. They found that the hyena wounds to his face and tail had become infected, and he was in critical condition. He was given emergency on-site treatment before being carefully loaded into a transportation crate for his journey back to Care for Wild (in an undisclosed location – for his safety).
“Bavati was found alive with a raging infection from his hyena-inflicted wounds and is currently fighting for his life.
“The calf is still extremely vulnerable at this stage and has a long road to recovery ahead of him. With your support right now, we can cover the cost of his urgent veterinary care and long-term rehabilitation. His will be a long road to recovery, and for a species under immense threat from poaching, every life counts.
“Bavati is the latest in a long line of poaching victims in South Africa. Official poaching statistics from South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE) reveals that 448 rhinos were killed in 2022 alone. Research shows a rhino is killed in South Africa every 20 hours.
“In 2021, you stood with us and helped rush emergency, life-saving funds to CFW following their rescue of FOUR rhino calves orphaned by poaching within just days of each other, including 12-hour-old Daisy, who, thanks to your support, received the care she needed to pull through.
“Right now, Bavati urgently needs the very same support if he is to have a chance of recovery.
“If we can raise $7,000 (£5,650), we can cover Bavati’s costly medical treatment, including wound care, pain relief, antibiotics, and ongoing blood tests to help CFW monitor his health and prolonged recovery.
“With your help, we are determined to give this orphaned and suffering calf the same chance that countless other vulnerable young rhinos (like Daisy!) have received at CFW.
“For the animals,
“Campaign Director, “Animal Survival International
“P.S. Rhino populations are at a tipping point. In the last decade, 9,396 rhinos have been lost to poaching. We must do everything in our power to protect the remaining populations to help their numbers increase. Every single rhino we rescue and rehabilitate is critical to the survival of their entire species.”
To contact Animal Survival International, or to make a donation to assist their campaign to help save rhinos like Bavati, visit their web-site at : https://animalsurvival.org/
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SAFEGUARD WOMEN’S SPORT
According to the United Nations report, "Violence Against Women and Girls in Sports," transgender (i.e. perverted men masquerading as women) athletes have won 890 medals in 29 different women's sports up until March 2024. This disgusting and truly shocking state of affairs – particularly when it involves physical-contact sports – can surely not be allowed to continue, and the various sporting authorities around the world must act to ensure that only those who are indisputably female (i.e. those who do not have a “Y” sex chromosome) are allowed to compete in female-only sporting competitions.
But there is alas something even more insidious affecting much of women’s sport today. There currently seems to be a high proportion of women who identify as lesbians (i.e. women who form unnatural intimate relationships with other women) in leading administrative and playing roles throughout women’s sport. They are of course part of the so-called “LGBT+” movement (where the “L” stands for “lesbian” and the “T” stands for “transgender”), and so therefore seem to be in close liaison with those perverted men who are undermining the very sanctity of the female sports which they are supposed to be safeguarding. Surely young girls around the world deserve to be able to experience the joys of sporting competitions without becoming prey not only for perverted men, but also for these invariably predatory perverted women.
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SOUND WORDS FROM RUPERT EVERETT
Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October Rupert Everett, the award-winning actor, stated “I have a great affection for all the stories of the [British] Empire”, adding that he found “a great romance” in the history of the European empires established worldwide since the 15th century. He then went on to say “The men in my family were all kind of empire-rulers, kind of military, naval, brisk. They loved doing very macho things like mowing and sailing and those things”.
Given that Everett was brought up and educated as a Roman Catholic, and holds some very liberal views on social matters, these patriotic pro-Imperial opinions which he has recently expressed are even more surprising. Perhaps this is therefore yet another example of the way that the wind is blowing!
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MORE WISE WORDS FROM BERNARD-HENRI LEVI
In the editorial of the August 2020 Edition of the SCN we praised the renowned French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy for his incisive book “The Virus in the Age of Madness”, the crux of which was that the Covid-19 crisis was not so much a “pandemic of a virus” but was rather a “pandemic of fear – a pandemic of panic”.
Now comes news that Bernard-Henri Levi has published another book which has led to further sustained criticism of him by the “woke brigade”. This book, entitled “Israel Alone”, argues forcefully that although many Western countries pay lip-service towards support for Israel in its battles against Islamic terrorism, they only want Israel to survive and not to win the war – and thereby cause huge potential problems for themselves against the same fundamental foe in the future.
We may not agree with every opinion which Bernard-Henri Levi has advocated in the past, but now following his admirable stance regarding the Covid-1984 paranoia as expressed in “The Virus in the Age of Madness” we again find ourselves in full agreement with his views as expressed in “Israel Alone”. The ISBN number for “Israel Alone” is: 9798888457832.
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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 :-
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Also check the list of South African expatriates/emigrants web-sites, which can be found at :-
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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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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.312: Mr. KEITH HULSE of Stoke-on-Trent and Durban
In the tail-piece article of last month’s SCN, “Remembering the Magoo Bar Bombing”, we mentioned Mr. Keith Hulse who had been badly injured in this ANC terrorist atrocity. Keith Hulse was born at Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire where he was a friend of Alan and Peter Mountford (see March 2003 and July 2023 SCNs) and was encouraged by them to emigrate to South Africa, where he settled in Durban and became a keen “member” of the “Roper Set” (see August 2016 SCN and The Imperial Patriot No.40). Like most of those associated with the “Roper Set” he was an avid sportsman, excelling in Marathon Running (he gained silver medals in the Comrades Marathon on several occasions). Alas contact with him ceased when we were forced to re-locate to the UK in 1990, but we would imagine that like most other British immigrants he returned to the UK after the ANC were handed power. It would however be good to be able to hear from him again.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
Tucker Carlson hosted a nightly political talk show on Fox News from 2016 until 2023, when he was surprisingly and suddenly dropped by the network. His shows were however somewhat controversial, and were constantly attacked by the “woke brigade”! He has now however established his own on-line podcast site where he has interviewed many international personalities, including Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. This site can be accessed at :-
https://tuckercarlson.com/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Sir,
Having just read the Yahoo News UK report entitled “Hundreds of people in African town confess to eating human flesh” all I can say is that this just shows there has been no advancement in these sub-humans. Utterly revolting!
Yours etc.,
Ann Lloyd, Norfolk, U.K..
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LAUNDRY LIST
Sir,
According to an International Money Laundering Document a key partner is Piet Greyling, the former Rhodesian Rugby Player. His family farmed tobacco in Mashonaland and Piet left Rhodesia and settled in Bloemfontein where he was director of Industrial Commodity Holdings Johannesburg. He became a Springbok player and captained the Springbok Rugby Union team.
I am the witness, writer and investigator of the document: it is true and factual. For many years this money laundering syndicate involved General Majuru and politicians in Zimbabwe. They illegally exported food such as sugar and cooking oils, leaving a shortage for everyone in Zimbabwe
I am also the writer and official investigator of the South African Genocide case against Zimbabwe.
Yours etc.,
J.Rushton, Shropshire, U.K.
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BRIDGING THE CHASM
Sir,
I am sure you would find Andrew Bridgen a most interesting speaker. He has been honest and consistent in standing up for the truth.
As you rightly point out, Reform UK continues to advance. I can see why decent Tories are in a quandary: the Tories are such a broad church that the party really cannot continue in its present form. The divergence which goes back to the 1970s has become a chasm. Half of their MPs would be better off as Lib Dims. There are more than enough other parties catering for people who like woke, mass immigration and being bossed around by big government. If the Tories can't offer a clear alternative suitable to people such as you and me, there is no point to their existence - it's a simple as that. They have only themselves to blame for ReformUK's surge. I still think the final shape of the centre right is impossible to predict. We really need a younger person who can attract the young, like Jordan Bardella in France. If ReformUK could find (and promote) a young person with charisma who was a cross between Geert Wilders, Viktor Orban and Javier Milei, that would be a game changer.
Yours etc.,
J.Petley, Sussex, U.K.
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REAL ALTERNATIVE
Sir,
The government’s ‘Prevent’ programme is trying to police our thinking and works in tandem with a real terrorist group Antifa. Antifa together with Hate not Hope uses dirty smear tactics to besmirch individuals it thinks it can bully. Behind which there's a subtle threat of violence used to enforce its 'woke' agenda. By contrast Patriotic Alternative stands for traditional British values such as free speech and free association.
Yours etc.,
M.Woodbridge, Denbighshire, U.K.
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INITIAL REACTION
Sir,
BBC = Bunch of Bloody Communists!
Yours etc.,
Peter Watson, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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REMEMBERING TOM NOBBS
Tom Nobbs was a Rhodesian who served in the Selous Scouts Regiment. He was injured during the early years of the Bush War however, and relocated to the U.K. as a result, where he often proudly wore his Selous Scout’s blazer. His patriotic zeal did not desert him once he had settled in his British ancestral homeland however, and he joined and became an active member of the Dartford Branch of the National Front. (It must be emphasised however that this was in the days when the National Front was still a mainstream democratic party, and before it was infiltrated and taken over by a cadre of neo-fascists).
He attended a public meeting of the NF held at Chatham Town Hall in 1975, which – in spite of the fact that the party was still then a democratic mainstream party – was being subjected to protests by an extreme-Leftist mob. Seeing a seemingly more violent section of the mob approaching towards a side-door with the apparent intention of breaking into the meeting Tom picked up a beer bottle and bravely confronted them. The Leftist mob realised that he meant business and fortunately backed away.
After the takeover of the NF by the neo-fascist clique Tom, along with most of the true membership, left in order to join the genuinely patriotic National Party of the United Kingdom. Sadly his poor health as a result of his service on the front-line of the West’s struggle against Communist terrorism caught up with him, and he died a few years later. It is known that Tom was married, but it is not certain whether he had any children. Tom Nobbs was clearly a brave patriot however, and he should not be forgotten. If any reader knows any more detailed information about his life and career in the Selous Scouts then we would of course be very keen to learn about it.
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