SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
July 2020 edition
On the 11th June the Ghanaian Minister of Tourism, Barbara Oteng Gyasi, emotionally stated at a public rally in Accra that “Black Americans of African descent should return to the continent because they are not wanted in the United States”. She then went on to say “Ghana is your home. Africa is your home. We have arms wide open, ready to welcome you home.”.
Ms. Gyasi was of course right. In 1820 a group of freed Negro slaves from the United States established a small colony on the West Coast of Africa and encouraged others of their numbers to return home there. Numbers increased during the following few decades, and in 1847 this colony declared itself the free sovereign nation of Liberia. In similar fashion Britain had founded the city of Freetown in their colony of Sierra Leone in 1792 and France the city of Libreville in their colony of Gabon in 1849 specifically for the purpose of settling freed Negro slaves. Following the abolition of slavery in the British, French and other European Empires, and the final emancipation of slaves in the United States following the Civil War of 1861 to 1865, it was naturally anticipated that most – if not all – of the freed Negro slaves would return to their ancestral homelands in these West African countries. Alas, however, this didn’t happen, no doubt because the “cushy” life under advanced Western rule proved far more attractive to the majority of them than the hard work required to establish new nations in the untamed African jungle.
In spite of there now being well over a century and a half since slavery was abolished throughout the West, with the Negroes thereby enjoying full rights and equality, the fact that there has been such widespread insurrection and rioting by Blacks in the United States and certain Western European countries over recent weeks must surely prove beyond doubt that the majority of them are genetically incapable of coping with life in an advanced Western society – and the fact that they have vandalised so many statues and memorials to great Western leaders and heroes shows categorically that they have nothing but hatred for the host countries where they now reside. The question must therefore be asked why don’t they just return to their ancestral homes in West Africa – particularly as Ms.Gyasi, the Ghanaian Minister of Tourism, has assured them that they would all be so welcome back there?
But it is not the Negroes themselves who are really to blame. It is the Western governments and authorities who have not insisted upon their repatriation – indeed they have not even encouraged it. This of course is all part of the socialist egalitarian mindset which has alas – albeit with two important breaks – been the dominant ideology throughout the West ever since the end of WW2. Socialism has of course proved a failure everywhere where is has been tried, and the catastrophic results of multi-racial societies has probably been the most striking example of this.
The sooner that the whole mindset of socialist egalitarianism is jettisoned into the dustbin of history the better. Then perhaps a new breed of national authorities can emerge throughout the West who will have the courage and vision to initiate a policy of repatriation for all non-Whites back to their ancestral homelands. This will not only greatly improve the order, prosperity and well-being of the Western nations and their peoples, but would also be to the benefit of the non-Whites themselves, who would no longer be “fish out of water”, forced to cope with life in a society which was genetically alien to them – and furthermore, as Ms. Gyasi has realised, this would also be to the advantage of their West African homelands. As was observed in Edition No.39 of The Imperial Patriot: “It would be a win/win/win situation”.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
The Springbok Club is tentatively planning to resume activities with a visit to the Royal Naval War Memorial in Chatham and other near-by historical sites during late August or September, and will then by re-scheduling the planned meeting to be addressed by Mr. James Lockwood about the Loyal Orders the following month. Both these events will of course depend upon how fully the draconian “lockdown” restrictions have been eased at the time, especially regarding the tyrannical insistence that objectionable facemasks must be worn on public transport etc.. More definite information will of course be given in next month’s SCN.
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
The Patriotic Forum is hoping that conditions will somehow improve sufficiently to allow it to resume activities sometime during the next few months, and indeed it already has a line-up of seven either confirmed or potential guest speakers ready for when the world returns to sanity..
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
Copies of the third edition of The Imperial Patriot (numbered No.40) have now been posted out to all continental European subscribers as well as those from the UK, and also to the first few overseas subscribers. The initial reactions to this edition have been very favourable, in spite of the fact that it proved somewhat too “up-beat” and positive given the disasters which have befallen the world since it was written. It is now therefore essential that Edition No.4/No.41 is published as soon as possible, in order to reflect the terrifying position that Western Civilisation now finds itself in. Before this can be done, however, the posting of all remaining copies of Edition No.3/No.40 to overseas subscribers must be completed.
As mentioned before, one supporter has already pledged a monthly direct debit donation of £25.00, and if we were to obtain just nine more similar regular donations then the magazine could easily be published twice per year from now onwards. Perhaps the easiest way that payments can be made is via PayPal, and this can be done by simply quoting the Patriotic Press/Patriotic Forum e-mail address of: swinton@netcomuk.co.uk on any PayPal facility and then confirming that payment is for Patriotic Press.
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MESSAGE FROM THE FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION
We have recently received the following very informative, though alas extremely concerning, message from the Fauna & Flora International organisation. Hopefully some of our readers might be able to help :-
“You probably wouldn't expect the words ‘pygmy’ and ‘hippo’ to ever go together. But, deep in the forests of Liberia you can find actual pygmy hippos that are just a fraction of the size of their better-known cousins.
“And these charming creatures are as adorable as their name suggests. They spend their nights plodding through dense forest in search of ferns and fruit. Their skin is constantly shiny, producing its own oily sun cream to stop them drying out.
“But the last few thousand - on top of having their rivers polluted and their habitat dismantled - are tragically being hunted for their meat. Small, shy and in desperate decline - they’re running out of options.
“With the odds stacked against them, they've become Liberia’s underdog. But FFI fights for the underdog.
“Through the power of local people, we're making sure that illegal mining camps - and the poachers associated with them - are peacefully removed. With your support, we're going to protect the surviving hippos, and help keep them plodding around Liberia's forests - forever.”
The Fauna & Flora International organisation can be contacted at: https://www.fauna-flora.org/
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SPORTS PLAYERS AND OFFICIALS ACT LIKE QUISLINGS
In last month’s SCN we commented upon the disgraceful actions of certain sports administrators in Britain who had been prepared to debase themselves and to cause great harm to the sports which they represented by kow-towing to the dictates of both the medicrat fanatics and the subversives orchestrating insurrection throughout the West. The most sickening example of this was the plan by the Quislings administering Premier League soccer to have the overtly political slogan “Black Lives Matter” emblazoned on the back of every player’s shirt, thereby breaking their own rules prohibiting the appearance of any political slogans or symbols on players’ apparel. The phrase “Black Lives Matter” is of course the rallying-cry of the Marxist revolutionary “Antifa” movement, who have rightfully been identified by President Trump as domestic terrorists.
Alas even more grotesque subservience to the Marxist insurrectionists followed, with an assortment of sporting figures including Premier League soccer players and officials, F1 drivers and even England cricketers and umpires “taking the knee”. This sickening gesture, which began as a mark of disrespect to the US National Anthem, has now become an international sign of support for all those rioting, vandalizing and looting in the streets of the US and elsewhere in the Western world. Those who have enacted this disgusting gesture can therefore only be described by one word: Vermin. They should remember that their predecessors from the England Soccer team who in 1938 were prepared to make an equally treacherous gesture by giving the Nazi salute prior to an international match against Germany, were subsequently held in total contempt by their fellow-countrymen, with calls being made for none of them ever to play for England again.
Happily not all sporting figures have been prepared to comply with this revolting acquiescence towards evil. Some Soccer players refused to take part, as also have four Championship League clubs and six F1 drivers. Most praiseworthy of all, however, was the initiative and bravery shown by the Burnley supporter Jake Hepple who arranged for a light aircraft towing a banner reading “White Lives Matter – Burnley” to fly over the Manchester City Ground where Burnley were playing. Jake Hepple is therefore a true hero of our times, and – even though the current Burnley management don’t seem to appreciate the fact – he has showered glory on the team which he loves.
All decent people must therefore call for all those who organised or partook in this disgraceful support for domestic terrorists to be dismissed from all positions and never to play for their countries again, unless they offer an abject apology for insulting their country and their fans in this way. All decent people should also boycott all the sports concerned until suitable actions have been taken to cleanse them of all association with this sickening support for evil.
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WHO IS OR WAS “BRU WIN”?
Most readers will probably recall that in the December 2019 Edition of the SCN we asked whether anyone could locate a copy of the article “Brendan Joseph Willmer – the Career of a Political Phony” which had been written during the 1980s, and how in the May 2020 Edition we pleasingly announced that a copy of this article had been located, and had now been placed on-line (http://www.springbk.org.uk/BJW-CPP.htm).
The main reason why we wished to locate a copy of this article was because we had been contacted by an enquirer who had asked whether we could supply any further information about the notorious Brenan Willmer, specifically concerning some of the crankier “conspiracy theories” which he bandied around. Unfortunately the enquirer never gave his name, and all we had to go on was his e-mail address of: bru_win3@hotmail.com. He did enigmatically mention that Willmer possessed the same initials as him however, leading us to believe that “Bru Win” was at least part of his name.
Alas, when we tried to contact him to inform him that the article had been located via the e-mail address which he had given our e-mail was returned as this address was evidently no longer recognised. We wonder therefore whether anyone could inform us of the full name of this mysterious “Bru Win”, and what his current e-mail address is?
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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.
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and
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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 :-
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BOOK OFFERS
TALES OF IMAGINATION AND MYSTERY
Supporter Bob Vinnicombe from Australia has self-published a book, the reading of which might help while away the hours in this time of "self isolation" due to the Wuhan virus.
The book is “Tales of Imagination and Mystery”, 196 pages, small paperback.
If you like Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination or The Twilight Zone you will like these stories.
Price is Aus$25 overseas outside Australia, Aus$15 in Australia. Pay by PayPal to bobvinnicombe@gmail.com
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“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.
Trish also writes romantic suspense and romantic comedy fiction. www.trishjaxon.com
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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.260 - Ms. DEBBIE TOMS of Durban
Debbie Toms was the daughter of Jenny Toms (see December 2003 SCN), and inherited some of her mother’s beauty. She was born and spent her childhood in Bulawayo, before moving to Natal where her parents had re-located, first to Ballito and then to Carrington Heights in Durban. She worked for Isaacs Geshin the estate agents, but alas seemed incapable of forming any lasting relationships, often pitting one boyfriend against another. She was also a great Francophile, so it is therefore wondered whether she moved to France. In any case, it would be very interesting to learn what became of her.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
A supporter has recently notified us of a very well-researched and revealing YouTube video entitled: “The Great Reset Plan Revealed”. This video tends to confirm what we have for some time suspected, namely that there is a connection between the two great madnesses currently infecting the world – the Wuhan Flu hysteria and the worldwide subversive insurrections – and furthermore that there are some very sinister forces behind these two assaults upon our rights, freedoms and civilised values. We do not of course have much time for “conspiracy theories”, but what is revealed in this video is not what is usually regarded as a “conspiracy theory” as it is based upon documented information – and all the facts fit. It is therefore very worth viewing and contemplating upon :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6pzXrEBqR0&list=PLzgo_jj39pzvFL9TsI9SD63IaA88nSW50
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FAMILY FAVOURITES
Sir,
Ten years after my beloved father’s death on Monday 15th June 1998, when I was, appropriately, telephoned from the Kruger National Park in South Africa by my second cousin , Peter Rogan, who lives in Putney, who’s mother Anne Doris Wylie is my father’s first cousin, and he was on loudspeaker with his two brothers, Alistair and Mac Rogan and first cousin, my second cousin, Mike Wylie,B.Comm., B.Sc. (Civil Engineering), a semi-retired Chairman of Wilson, Bailey, Holmes. That was a lovely family gesture!
Yours etc.,
Alex Knox-Wylie, Bath, Somerset, U.K.
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HEALTHY OPINIONS
Sir,
Thank you for the May 2020 SCN which I found very interesting. You obviously carry out a great deal of research and I was particularly interested in the details of the formation of the NHS and the part played by Nye Bevan. My late husband used to refer to the NHS as the National Horror Story!
Yours etc.,
Jane Webster, Bath, Somerset, U.K.
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HERE’S TO THE BOYS WHO FEAR NO NOISE
Sir,
Unfortunately I won’t be able to march to the tune of No Surrender this year with the Orange Order. All parades have been cancelled due to these ridiculous COVID restrictions.
With regards to marches, my favourite Orange banner painting is the one with Queen Victoria proclaiming the Bible as the secret of England’s greatness to the Indian prince.
I would also like to thank you and the Patriotic Forum for your continued support towards Ulster Unionism. It is fantastic to know that we still have friends on the mainland.
Yours etc.,
A. Barr, Ballymena, Co.Antrim, U.K.
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GET F***ING
Sir,
Listening to the radio and tele’ over the last few days I awoke this morning whilst listening to radio 5 live of the demos around the world of “Black Lives Matter” (don’t all lives?) to the resounding thought, Jesus Christ, this is the beginning of the end for the Caucasian Race in perhaps 3 to 4 generations. We have a diminishing birth rate (less two per couple on average) but all other races have a birth rate of 2 and upwards. It takes 2.3 children to maintain a race, but we, the White race, are failing to produce this.
Given the current crime rate of the minorities, especially those of West Indian and Somali decent, I doubt whether we will be given the courtesy and understanding that we have given them. Add to all this their multitude of organisations, Black Lawyers, Black Police, etc.,etc., etc., and all assisted by bloody White liberals who do not understand they will be the first victims.
What is unforgivable is not only did we stopped slavery, but had we not alone stood up to Hitler those that criticise us would not be here to do so.
I could go on but I think you get the picture, but what do we do?
Yours etc.,
Roy Painter, St.Albans, Hertfordshire, U.K.
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SPANISH VIEW
Sir,
I hope that you and the members of the Springbok Club are well and in perfect health. With your permission, I am writing you a general reflection on Southern Africa.
In many southern and eastern African states, such as South Africa and Zimbabwe, not to mention others like Mozambique, the formal freedoms arising from the overthrow of the "White" government do not seem to fill the stomachs or calm the concerns of the "Black" majorities. This is
because these nations are currently governed by political parties that seem to have no desire to leave power. Along with this, these cliques have sought allies abroad so that, mortgaging the futures of their peoples, they remain in power. An example of this foreign aid is the Chinese intrusion into Africa, which helps sustain these cliques in power.
Yours etc.,
Carlos Pintor Extramiana, San Sebastian, Spain
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THE CASE FOR SLAVERY
Sir,
With all the current discussions about historic Negro slavery, it has struck me that the balance of the argument has not been even, as it is always assumed without question that such slavery was a bad thing. In order to redress the balance I thought that it might be interesting to examine the counter point of view.
The Negroes from West Africa who were sold to European traders to become slaves in the Americas had all been captured by one tribe or another during inter-tribal conflict. If their captors were not aware that they could receive good payment for them from the European traders then they would simply have been butchered on the spot. Although their Trans-Atlantic journeys were hellish, once they arrived in their new homes and were sold to new owners then it was in the interests of these new owners to ensure that they were well fed, healthy and had good accommodation. A happy work-force is after always a good work-force. Furthermore, as their new masters were invariably zealous Christians they would also allow them one day off during the week, Sunday’s, when they were taught the virtues of Christianity and encouraged to adapt their traditional songs and tunes to their new religion – which became Negro spirituals and Gospel Music. This of course only added to their contentment in their new homes.
These are the facts. Let’s hope that we can now have a balanced debate on the subject.
Yours etc.,
“Methodist”, Bristol, U.K.
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OBITUARIES
DAME VERA LYNN
Like the whole of the British nation, we were greatly saddened by the news of the death of Dame Vera Lynn, albeit at the ripe old age of 103.
Vera Lynn was born at East Ham in 1917 into an upper working-class family. At an early age it became apparent that she was gifted with an outstanding singing voice, and so her career in life thereby became assured. Her voice was distinctive and mesmerising, and by the late 1930s she was singing with several of the top dance bands of the era, particularly those of Joe Loss and Bert Ambrose. But her talents proved to extend far beyond her singing voice; as she was assured and self-confident at a very young age, and had a winning smile and an ability to get on with seemingly everyone around her. It was for this reason that she was “head-hunted” by the BBC to present their new radio request programme, “Sincerely Yours”.
The outbreak of WW2 proved providential for her, for through her radio show and many live performances she quickly became highly popular – particularly with the servicemen who had enlisted to fight in the War, and in next to no time she was dubbed “The Forces Sweetheart”. Most performers would simply have gloried in this epithet and then sat back to reap all the benefits – but not Vera Lynn. She knew that it was her duty constantly to deserve the title, and set out to entertain the troops and others associated with the War effort everywhere that she could with her magnificent voice and her inspirational songs. The most praiseworthy example of this was when she became aware of the “Forgotten Army” (those fighting in Burma against the Japanese aggressors) and insisted that she be flown out to entertain them in a similar fashion to the way that she had entertained the troops fighting in Europe and North Africa. This was not only a very brave action for her to take, as this was the most dangerous theatre of the War, but as conditions in tropical Asia were so terrible this also proved extremely uncomfortable for a lone woman. Another important factor about Vera Lynn’s affinity with her adoring fans was that she always insisted upon wearing a “girl next door” skirt and blouse when entertaining the troops, rather than the elegant ball-gowns which she had worn pre-WW2 when performing with the big dance-bands.
After WW2 Vera Lynn fell out of favour with the establishment, particularly with the Attlee Socialist government which tended to be quasi-pacifist and opposed to continued Imperialism, an opposition which caused further conflicts where Vera Lynn’s patriotic enthusiasm to perform for the troops could have again helped to lift service morale. As a result she went into semi-retirement.
Happily all this changed in the 1960s however, when the BBC again realised her great talents, and produced a string of television variety programmes for her to host. These shows of course were compulsory viewing for all those for whom she had been “The Forces Sweetheart” a couple of decades earlier – but were also enjoyed by a younger generation who were equally captivated by her talents. Throughout all this time she remained a dedicated supporter of the Royal British Legion and other veterans’ organisations, eagerly entertaining those who she termed “my boys” without asking for any fees. When subsequent conflicts erupted where British servicemen again had to play their part in defending their country and its interests – such as the Falklands War, the Gulf War and the War Against Islamic Terror – Vera Lynn not only resumed her own morale-boosting performances, but also encouraged a younger generation of British entertainers to do likewise.
Dame Vera Lynn may never have taken up arms against our enemies during WW2 and subsequent conflicts, but her self-sacrificing contributions were nonetheless of tremendous value. We therefore mourn her passing with much sorrow, and trust that her patriotic valour will set an example for future generations of those blessed with similar musical talents. Our sincere condolences are extended to her daughter, grand-daughter and great-grandchildren.
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JAMES BARRY WHYMAN
It was with great sadness that we recently learnt of the death of James Barry Whyman at the age of 83.
Barry Whyman (he invariably used his second Christian name – though he was often nicknamed “Bill” after the popular musician!) had been born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire during mid-1936. A skilled craftsman, he rose to become lecturer in ceramics at Leicester College.
Barry was also a great patriot, who took a keen interest in the well-being of his kith-and-kin around the world, particularly those from Rhodesia. During the time of UDI he joined the Anglo-Rhodesian Society, and retained a committed member of several pro-Rhodesian organisation even after the fall of Rhodesia in 1979. He joined the Springbok Club during the mid 1990s after being introduced to the organisation at a reception in the House of Lords, and initially proved a loyal and dedicated member, travelling regularly all the way down from Leicester to London to attend meetings. Alas, however, his wife was taken badly ill during the early 2000s with a condition which meant that she could not be left alone, which resulted in him being forced to cease active membership.
We remember Barry Whyman fondly however, and our sincere sympathies are extended to his daughter Sarah and to the rest of his family.
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June 2020 Edition.
SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
June 2020 edition
We started the April 2020 Edition of the SCN by saying “Over the past month the entire world seems to have gone mad”. Alas since that date the madness inflicting the entire planet – or practically the entire planet – has not diminished in any way, but has actually become far worse, and even more frighteningly there have now emerged two parallel branches of madness poisoning the world. In his great and heroic speech of April 1968 Enoch Powell reminded everyone of the ancient Greek saying “Those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad”. The past four months would therefore seem to indicate that the Gods have despaired so much of the state of the world that they have decided that it would be best if it was to be destroyed completely.
The first madness of course has been the continuing hysteria and over-reaction towards the Covid-19 virus – or as we prefer more accurately to describe it, Wuhan Flu. In spite of all the increasing evidence that the extent and severity of this virus is nowhere near as catastrophic as the medicrats would have us believe, in spite of all the increasing evidence that the infection-rate per capita is no higher in countries such as Sweden and Belarus which did not enforce any “lockdown” than in those unfortunate counties which did, and in spite of all the evidence that the “lockdown” lunacy has ruined national economies for generations to come and has caused far more deaths from causes such as suicide, domestic violence and anger-induced high blood pressure than those which it has allegedly saved, the medicrat gauleiters around the world have continued to enforce their draconian rules restricting so many of our rights and freedoms.
But as we’ve said before, it is not the medicrats themselves or the simpleton politicians who are enthralled by them who we reserve our greatest contempt for, but rather the sheep-like people – now accurately termed by many as “sheeple” – who dutifully obey all their ridiculous dictates such as staying 2 metres (please, if they mean 6 feet then for goodness sake say 6 feet!) away from our fellow human-beings, only allowing a certain number of people into shops at a time, and now even insisting that everyone wear idiotic facemasks to look like Muslim women when boarding public transport! Tony Blair is not a person who we quote often, but his observation that the whole purpose of the “lockdown” campaign was to terrify everyone into obeying was undoubtedly correct.
The second madness is however, if anything, even more frightening. This involves the astonishing international growth of the so-called “Black Lives Matter” protest movement, which originated in the United States. Let’s get real here. This movement only began because an overweight crook was caught red-handed by Police in Minneapolis passing on forged banknotes, and then died whilst trying to resist arrest. In any decent and civilised society everyone would fully support the police in maintaining the law of course, but not it appears in today’s sick international societies. The criminal involved was Black of course, and for the past half-century there has been no more pampered and privileged section of US society than the Negroes – yet still they don’t seem satisfied. If it was only Blacks causing the subsequent riots, destruction and looting it would not be so bad of course, as it would simply be viewed as the Negro race reverting to type – but no, the most alarming aspect of the resulting international bandwagons has been the high number of self-hating Whites who have supported the insurrectionists. Yes, the Gods would certainly seem to want to destroy us!
But what has happened subsequently around the world has been even more demonic. Although not connected in any way to the death of the Black criminal in Minneapolis, the insurrectionists around the world have started to attack and destroy statues and memorials to our great patriotic heroes of the past - those who have helped to create our advanced civilised world of today. In the United States itself statues to Christopher Columbus (who re-discovered the American continent and thereby enabled Western civilisation to spread there) and Jefferson Davies (a hero figure in the Southern States, who fought to maintain States’ rights) have been torn down. In Britain statues to Edward Colston (a merchant venturer described as “a wise and virtuous man” who brought great prosperity to Britain by expanding Atlantic trade, and who proved a fantastic philanthropist in his native Bristol by bequeathing all his wealth to establish schools, hospitals and almshouses in the city), Robert Milligan (who was the driving force behind the foundation of London’s West India Docks, which of course brought further great wealth to Britain), Thomas Guy (a philanthropist who founded Guy’s Hospital) and Robert Baden-Powell (who founded the Boy Scouts movement) have all been attacked (though happily the statue to Robert Baden-Powell still stands). Even in Belgium the statue to their great King Leopold II (who using his own money opened up the whole of the Congo Basin in central Africa to the benefits of Western rule) has now been removed. Make no bones about it, these latest actions by the insurrectionist vermin have nothing to do with “Black Lives Matter” – THEY ARE A DECLARATION OF WAR ON OUR ENTIRE WESTERN CIVILISATION!
We are not conspiracy theorists, and at first view there seems to be no connection between these two manifestations of current madness. When examined more closely, however, there does appear to be strong circumstantial evidence that the two attacks upon our liberties and well-being are linked. There is growing evidence that the international insurrections were all pre-planned, and planned long before the Black criminal was killed in Minneapolis. Furthermore it is obvious that the Blacks could not have organised such criminality on a global-scale themselves, and that other far more sinister forces have been at work – sinister forces that can only be described as pure evil. These forces, who would seem to be fanatical supporters of egalitarian socialism, have perhaps simply been biding their time until some form of global crisis came about which would entail the complete “lockdown” of society so that no meaningful resistance to their diabolical plans could be organised. It is not outside the bounds of possibility therefore that the whole scare-story about a new strain of flu virus mutating which was so deadly that it warranted the total “lockdown” of Western societies was invented by these same sinister forces.
There have been a number of brave and praiseworthy campaigns initiated on social media and web-sites constructed on the Internet highlighting both the non-necessity of all the “lockdown” restrictions and the sinister nature of those behind the “Black Lives Matter” campaign (who President Trump has accurately identified as domestic terrorists), but alas such resistance in the cyber-world is not sufficient. What is needed is a true fight-back in the real world. There must be a campaign of mass defiance against all the draconian “lockdown” restrictions, and the domestic terrorists must be physically confronted. More fundamentally, however, all those weak (to use a charitable term) governments and authorities around the world who have imposed all the unjustifiable “lockdown” rules and have failed to stand up to all the evil attackers of our culture and heritage must be driven from power and – as in 1940 - replaced by new rulers who have the courage and backbone to abolish all “lockdown” regulations IMMEDIATELY, to arrest and then repatriate all those rioting, vandalising and looting in our streets – and to re-consecrate all the statues to our great heroes of the past!
If we don’t liberate ourselves from these two terrible evils and madnesses soon then our entire Western Civilisation will be destroyed, just as the Greek soothsayer predicted the Gods would do all those centuries ago – and what’s more they will be right in so doing!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
Of course all the continuing “lockdown” madness has meant that the Springbok Club has again been unable to stage any activities during the last month, and sickeningly the proposed new ruling that no-one can use public transport unless dressed like a Muslim woman means that no further activities can be expected in the immediate future. There was however one very important and maybe pivotal development for the organisation last month. This was the interview of the current Chairman of the organisation on the highly-respected expatriate South African on-line streaming channel Loving Life Live. For those who may have missed this interview live then a recording can still be viewed at:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoK8wrbjfbM
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
The same problems which have befallen the Springbok Club also of course affect the Patriotic Forum, and look as if they are going to get worse before they can get better. As we’ve said before, we are not conspiracy theorists, but we cannot help wondering whether one of the reasons why all the draconian “lockdown” regulations were imposed – especially regarding restrictions on the use of public transport – was in order to curtail the activities of patriotic organisations such as the Patriotic Forum, who were becoming increasingly critical of the current British government.
As no “live” activities can take place in the foreseeable future it is therefore more important than ever that we concentrate on the “written word”, and therefore spread the patriotic message by this means. Our Patriotic Forum Circulation Service will therefore be expanded on the Internet, featuring not only re-posted items from like-minded organisations, but also by containing more of our news and comments. More important in the “real world”, however, will be the circulation of hard-copy publications – and in this regard the following section is of great importance.
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
We are most pleased to be able to report that the 3rd Edition of The Imperial Patriot (numbered No.40 for continuity purposes) has now definitely been published, and copies distributed to all current UK subscribers. Copies to all subscribers from continental Europe will be posted out early next week. This achievement was only made possible by the generosity of a few dedicated supporters, to whom we extend our sincerest thanks. One supporter in particular has now taken out a standing order in favour of the magazine for £25.00 per month, and has accurately observed that if only 9 other supporters were prepared to do the same then not only would we be able to post out copies to all subscribers in the rest of the World speedily, but we would also be able to publish the next edition before the end of the year – and thereafter would be able to publish on a twice-yearly basis. We are sure that there must be at least another 9 supporters on the SCN circulation list who are in a position to contribute such as relatively small amount each month, and trust that they won’t let us down.
For all those who cannot afford £25.00 per month, and who are not already subscribers, then the best way to help is to take out a subscription, the current rates for 12 issues (including postage) being as follows :-
U.K. £19.00
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Payments can of course also be made via PayPal. Simply quote the Patriotic Press/Patriotic Forum e-mail address of: swinton@netcomuk.co.uk and then confirm that payment is for Patriotic Press.
When you do make a payment please also e-mail us, so that we can correlate everything.
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MESSAGE FROM THE NETWORK FOR ANIMALS
We have recently received the following most disturbing message from the Network for Animals organisation :-
“A few weeks ago, in the poverty-stricken community of Bela Bela in South Africa, we encountered an act of such terrible cruelty it makes us shudder to think of it. A monster had hacked off a donkey’s legs, leaving it in ghastly pain to drag itself on bloody stumps to a lingering death.
“Imagine the pain the poor creature suffered! Your support is desperately needed so we can continue to help the innocent donkeys of Bela Bela!
“When we investigated, we found an entire community of donkey abuse. Bela Bela is so poor that people can barely feed themselves. Most animals must scavenge to survive, and donkeys are literally worked to death.
“Donkeys are used for transport. Grazing is scarce in the area and people can’t afford food, so the donkeys slowly starve, enduring lives of pain and hardship until death claims them. The people blame unemployment and have no idea how to solve the problem.
“But it’s more than this. Many people in Bela Bela see animals as objects, not sentient creatures who feel pain and know fear. Donkeys are throw-away items. Owners work them until they drop and then they get a new one.
“It’s a vicious cycle of work, neglect, cruelty and death. There’s no way we can stand by knowing this is happening. We promised to help, and with your support, we will.
“We are immediately providing emergency food relief for the poor creatures and teaching people basic animal care - explaining that regular food and water is vital to keep a donkey alive.
“So many of the donkeys are in heart-breaking condition, An injured donkey almost died in front of us. We saved her.
“While our team was in Bela Bela, we found a shivering, badly injured donkey. Her owner had completely neglected her, and she was in terrible condition.
“We tried to persuade the owner to let us treat the donkey and threatened to call the police if he did not. The donkey owner just laughed. (The sad truth is that the police do nothing about animal cruelty, even though it is against the law.)
“We did what we had to do, what you would have wanted us to do - we bought the donkey and SAVED HER LIFE. We named her Silvia.
“When Silvia arrived at the sanctuary we support, she was immediately treated for her injuries, but something still wasn’t right - she was compulsively neighing. The team noticed her udders were full of milk. Silvia HAD A BABY, and she was calling for it!
“We immediately went back to the owner and bought the baby as well! These two will be well-cared for, thanks to NFA supporters like you.
“Two donkeys saved, so many more to go… We urgently need to provide more food and veterinary care for the poor donkeys in Bela Bela, so please help if you possibly can.
“We estimate that at least 100 donkeys in Bela Bela are in the same terrible situation as Silvia. With your help, we can really improve their lives… hopefully making sure that no other donkey has their legs hacked off. Please, if you possibly can, donate today.
“For the Animals,
“Brian and Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!) - Founder and CEO.
“P.S. We have been trying to track down the culprit that mutilated the donkey, with no luck so far. People are scared to talk but, rest assured, we will keep digging. This person must be held responsible! Please be as generous as you can today. With your help, we will do everything in our power for these innocent donkeys.”
For more details about the Network for Animals organisation, or to make a donation, visit their web-site at: https://networkforanimals.org/
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DISGUSTING BEHAVIOUR BY SPORTS ADMINISTRATORS
The actions of practically all sports administrators in the Western world of meekly kow-towing to their respective governments’ dictates by suspending all competitions because of the Wuhan Flu outbreaks were acts of pure cowardice – but alas even worse actions have followed.
When Racing was allowed to resume in both France and the UK (behind closed doors alas) their respective Racing authorities ordered all their jockeys to dress up like Muslim women by wearing ridiculous facemasks, which not only made them look stupid but also could prove potentially dangerous. The same ludicrous dress regulations apparently also apply in certain states in the US – yet ironically there has been no such requirement for jockeys in Hong Kong (in a country of course where the Wuhan Flu virus first mutated!) to do the same whilst riding!
There have however been two far more shameful actions taken by sporting authorities in the UK which have been nothing less than acts of cowardly subservience to the evil rioting mob. Firstly the MCC have ordered the removal of portraits of one of their earliest administrators, Benjamin Aislabie, from the pavilion at Lords. Benjamin Aislabie was not only a one-time President of the MCC, but also served as its first secretary, holding this position for some two decades. He was evidently both greatly liked and highly-respected by all who knew him, so the removal of his portraits was therefore a disgusting insult to a great historical figure by his current-day heirs. The Soccer Premiership officials have however gone even further in their surrender to the baying mob, for by all accounts they have ordered players to bear the words “Black Lives Matter” on their shirts for the first few matches of the resumed season (again reprehensibly to be played behind closed doors!). The phrase “Black Lives Matter” is of course the slogan of the anti-White domestic terrorists who have caused so much conflict, destruction and looting around the world over the past few weeks, so to suck-up to these vermin in this way is both obscene and sickening in the extreme!
We therefore call upon all these cowardly and treacherous sporting officials who have behaved in such unspeakable ways to resign immediately, and to hand over to others who have more backbone and decency!
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FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT BY JOHN BROWNE
John Browne, the former Conservative MP for Winchester who spoke at a Patriotic Forum meeting in December of last year, has recently forwarded us the following most informative article which he has written about the financial effects of Brexit :-
BREXIT DIVORCE LIKELY HURTS EU AND AFFECTS U.S.
As Big Ben struck 11.00 pm on January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom broke free of the European Union in a bloodless revolution against global socialism. As such, it was by far the most important event of the 21st Century to date.
The main reason for Brexit’s massive importance is that the EU is the first great experiment by the global élite in the eradication of nations in preparation for world government. The initial central thrust of the EU was to destroy the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ which lies at the core of international finance and the so-called Western World. Their global sophisticated nuclear deterrents with their separate U.S.-UK decision processes hold at bay major enemies who are left to conduct covert methods of socialist subversion and terrorism. As such, Brexit will affect the lives of millions if not billions of people worldwide, including the United States.
The submission of Article 50 of the European Treaty triggered the UK’s departure. Now, under Article 184 the UK and EU must negotiate a political divorce that, under Article 77, will be termed ‘The Political Document’. It will cover most areas of politics, law, trade and financial arrangements agreed to in the negotiations. Failure to agree likely will lead to a separation more painful to both sides, but separation nonetheless.
According to Eurostat, the 2018 EU population was 512.6 million of which the UK was 66.2 million. With some 446.4 remaining after Brexit in 27 countries, the UK was forecast, by both Prime Ministers Cameron and May’s ‘Project Fear’ to endure massive shortages of food and medical supplies, economic collapse and massive currency debasement. May voted to Remain. Her so-called withdrawal plan rumoured to have been negotiated secretly with Germany and misleadingly entitled Brexit, may have caused economic chaos. However, Parliament discarded May’s poisoned chalice on three occasions leading May to resign in disgrace in favor of Boris Johnson. The net result was the re-election of Johnson with massive party and parliamentary majorities. Boris will be standing up to the EU in which serious strategic weaknesses are becoming manifest.
On February 21, 2020, Bloomberg published an illuminating article titled, “Post-Brexit Budget Impasse Exposes Europe’s Divisions” It described how the EU summit, struggling to finance programs like agriculture, climate change, regional development and immigration is faced now by an $80 billion Brexit shortfall. Apparently, under the rotating presidency of Croatia, the meetings evolved into ill will and squabbling between changing groups over spending.
Stemming from the same Saxon origin and despite having fought each other tooth and nail in two World Wars, the British and Germans have strong mutual respect and affinity. Both believe in minimal government and maximum free trade. Accompanied by Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden they formed the frugal or ‘Northern group’, the economic engine of the EU. With a group vote of some 36.8 percent, they held minority veto power over EU budgets. They were able to block the socialist redistributive spending plans of the majority of Mediterranean and former Soviet member nations, led often by France and known as the ‘Beneficiary Group’.
However, with the departure of the UK, as the second largest EU economy and contributor, the Northern Group’s vote, even if bolstered by Austria and the Baltic states, shrinks to 27.8 percent losing its veto power. This crucial fact points to a fundamental schism and dangerous potential political threat within the EU. Although it could threaten the continued economic and even political viability of the EU and its euro currency, it is overlooked by most observes. However, it will not stray far from the minds of those negotiating the Brexit trade treaty.
Over some 36 of the past 46 months, the EU was seen as the all-powerful Goliath mocking publically the modest UK, David, of less that one eighth its size and led by a timid, unconvinced Prime Minister May. Today, the tables have turned dramatically. The UK is led now by a Brexit believing, Churchillian Prime Minister with almost unprecedented domestic political power and some potentially damaging stones in his sling pouch.
Forecast to collapse post Brexit, the UK economy has the fastest growth and lowest unemployment of the EU major economies with high business confidence and Sterling firm. In addition, rumour has it that vast investment funds are poised discreetly for UK allocation once the final UK/EU Political Document is published. In the streets, little austerity is apparent.
Looking ahead, the UK will be free to negotiate trade deals with all its old trading partners including the U.S., China, Japan, India, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Currently, the EU has agreements only with Japan and a partial one with Canada. Furthermore, the UK will be free, under World Trade Organization free trade rules, to negotiate deals with all individual EU member states. Already, there is a talk of an Anglo-German friendship treaty!
Despite the changed balance, the EU likely will persist in trying to punish the UK severely as a vivid example of the fate awaiting any EU member state which dares even apply to leave, as Nigel Farage described in the EU parliament, “the prison of nations.”
Emboldened by past successes, the EU has opened already in its characteristic bullyboy manner with bellicose media threats, demands for preconditions and time delays. Aware of EU history, Prime Minister Johnson has opened with a ‘time certain’ of December 31,2020 by which an agreement must be reached or there will be none. Round one to Boris.
The second aim of the EU will be to keep the UK in closely aligned “cohesion” with EU standards, rules and practices in order to prepare the ground for a future Socialist Prime Minister to surrender the UK once again to the EU. Likely Johnson is aware of this ploy and will not only resist, but fulfill his current policy of massive spending on poorer areas in the North with the aim of annihilating a Labour Party seen now as having ignored its base supporters.
Now the UK is free, Johnson will find it relatively easy to retain the supremacy of UK Common law; its sophisticated nuclear deterrent, its permanent seat on the UN Security Council; and control over its employment and immigration policies and of its oil fields. Likely it would result in popular uproar if he let slip any of these items central to political independence.
Likely, the EU will try hard to sabotage the London based financial services industry by means of discriminatory taxes and fees. Despite the pre-eminence of London’s financial market with the third largest stock market after Tokyo and New York with whom it shares an umbilical cord of common language, legal system and trading practices, the EU could cause damage. Therefore, Johnson may yield some points on UK fishing grounds and some industrial product standards.
Regardless, if Johnson negotiates a good US-UK trade deal, but is unable to see reasonable UK advantage in the EU negotiations likely he will leave without a deal. Germany, where the far right is gaining ground rapidly, will be dismayed to a degree that may threaten the EU and even the euro, now the world’s second currency. The 27 EU members likely will prosper individually, but a euro collapse would threaten the entire world with a financial catastrophe, involving the U.S. and most developed nations.
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DEEPAK LAL – A MAN WHO SHOWED THERE WAS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE
The recent death of Deepak Lal, the famed Indian economist, was of course a very sad event – but his life story also offers a potentially hopeful vision for the future. Unlike the “Black Lives Matter” fanatics who spout nothing but anti-White hatred, Deepak Lal’s life showed how Whites and non-Whites can live in a worldwide relationship of friendship and mutual respect. Let us hope therefore that as the century progresses it is Deepak Lal’s example of co-operation and friendly liaison which triumphs, rather than the thuggish hatred of the “Black Lives Matter” rioters. An excellent obituary to Deepak Lal from the Daily Telegraph can be accessed at :-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/05/06/deepak-lal-economist-became-fervent-admirer-raj-obituary/
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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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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
TALES OF IMAGINATION AND MYSTERY
Supporter Bob Vinnicombe from Australia has self-published a book, the reading of which might help while away the hours in this time of "self isolation" due to the Wuhan virus.
The book is “Tales of Imagination and Mystery”, 196 pages, small paperback.
If you like Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination or The Twilight Zone you will like these stories.
Price is Aus$25 overseas outside Australia, Aus$15 in Australia. Pay by PayPal to bobvinnicombe@gmail.com
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“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.
Trish also writes romantic suspense and romantic comedy fiction. www.trishjaxon.com
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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.259 - Mr. GERRY COLENBRANDER of Durban.
Gerry Colenbrander was briefly mentioned in the April 2020 Edition of the SCN as one of “Mad Mike” Hoare’s Congo mercenaries. He lived in Durban North and was very active in the patriotic movement in Durban during the late 1970s, being a keen supporter of the Save Rhodesia Campaign and once even paying out of his own pocket for Jaap Marais to travel down to the city to address a meeting prior to the HNP being formally established in southern Natal. Gerry Colenbrander never hid his earlier involvement as a Congo mercenary, though neither did he dwell upon it. Mysteriously, however, he completely disappeared from the scene during the 1980s after the HNP had been officially constituted in Durban and the patriotic movement in the city really started to make headway. Invitations to meetings sent to him were never returned however, thus indicating that he hadn’t died, but puzzlingly he never turned up at any of the events which he had been notified about. It would be very interesting to learn not only where he is now, but also what caused him to drop out from all activism during the 1980s.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
With all the current media hysteria about the Wuhan Flu outbreak it is refreshing to learn of the Lockdown Sceptics web-site, which takes a far more rational view about the whole situation. It features articles by a number of eminent writers including Toby Young, and presents measured and well-researched arguments counteracting all the mainstream media brainwashing. Of particular encouragement is the fact that it also seems to detect a link between all the “lockdown” madness and the current worldwide “Black Lives Matter” rioting. It can be accessed at :-
https://lockdownsceptics.org/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
WOKE UP AUSTRALIA
Sir,
Thanks once again for your excellent SCN. Re the “Wuhan virus" I am ashamed and embarrassed how my fellow Australians have succumbed so quickly and easy to the police state without a whimper. Democracy is now dead, replaced by a dictatorship which uses Gestapo/KGB tactics as their enforcer. Where are the men to stand up to all this? All this has been achieved by panic and fear. I am not sure if Australia was threatened again in war, whether the WOKE generation would come for the fore and overcome.
Yours etc.,
Reg A.Watson, Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia..
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SWEET & SOUR PEANUTS
Sir,
One theory is: The world does lockdown because WHO told everyone to do so, because China told WHO to do so, because China wants the world to go bankrupt, so they can buy everything for peanuts.
Yours etc.,
Heinrich Koch, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
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DEADLY CONSEQUENCE
Sir,
A consequence of Lockdown which might interest some of your readers.
Criminals by nature are unlikely to abide by Lockdown if they can profit by it, but we do have a serious problem with the unemployed and poor section of our population whose only apparent alternative is to starve to death.
Yours etc.,
Johan Geelvink, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
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ANTI-SOCIALISING SOCIALISM
Sir,
Thanks for the SCN and the info’.
I greatly appreciated your editorial on the Wuhan Virus. In Thailand, we even have Prohibition. Organized crime is now starting to enter in to fill the void, just like in 1920 (U.S.A.). Thailand firmly believes that Prohibition is preventing socialising and keeping deaths low; but there is simply no scientific evidence to back this up.
The harm which is being inflicted upon us civilians by the Medicrats is beyond belief. We have millions of families about to run out of money and Thailand has had an economic contraction of 24% from this madness; the worst in Asia and on a par with the Great Depression. We had breadlines forming until the authorities forced the starving masses to return home; of course with no food to offer them in return. It is just absolutely disgusting; but that's what Socialism does. This is the reality of living in a nation whereupon the State takes over; and I guess that I can only hope that the average person eventually identifies this for what it is and wakes up and revolts. In an authoritarian state, there is no innovation, no opportunity, no hope of change - you are ordered to stay in your lane and accept your fate as the so-called "new normal."
It's just shameful.
Yours etc.,
J. Jellison, Bangkok, Thailand.
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TELLING IT AS IT WAS
Sir,
Your obituary on Allan Robertson (see March 2020 SCN – Ed.) was extremely gracious after his treacherous betrayal of you as a friend and political college - though I wouldn't expect anything else from you. A lesser man would have given him "both barrels", with justification.
Yours etc.,
Paul Armstrong, Camberley, Surrey, U.K.
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OUT OF AFRICA
Sir,
I met Mike Hoare in the Shuter and Shooter Bookshop I was managing in 1977. I had read “Mercenary, the story of Hoare” and being an ex-military officer I was keen to speak to him. We had a chat and he was extremely humble and downplayed his history which I knew to have been incredibly exciting.
A few years earlier while at the Zimbabwe Ruins in Fort Victoria I lost the keys to my Jaguar -.an old classic 5.6 litre for which I had to buy extra fuel coupons just to drive from my Gwelo motel into town and back, a distance of four km. Anyway, while I was searching for my keys I was alerted to the fact that my keys had been found by Spike Milligan. I was over the moon and that night Spike and his sons and I had a few quiet ones [interrupted by fierce laughter from all four of us].
The people you meet in Africa!
Yours etc.,
Adrian Keefe, New South Wales, Australia
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ROGUES GALLERY
In the September 2019 Edition of the SCN, in an article entitled “Lunacy in the ‘new’ South Africa”, we recounted the very sad tale about how a long-standing but tragically very naïve supporter still trapped in the “new” South Africa had been “conned” out of his car by a highly dubious acquaintance. We didn’t name either of the two parties involved, but told how the “con-man” in question was using the title of “General”, although subsequent investigations had revealed that his claim to this rank was fake. We also revealed how this character was claiming to have revived the joke AWB outfit, a phoney organisation which during the late 1980s and early 1990s had been established and used by the sell-out NP government in order to divide and discredit genuine White resistance to their surrender plans, and to demonise the “Vote NO” campaign at the 1992 Constitutional Referendum.
We have subsequently been sent a most interesting press cutting from the Natal Mercury of March 6th 1992 which contained a very informative article about the individual concerned. He was named as Monty Markow, and the fact that this article constantly placed his claimed rank of “General” in inverted commas simply confirmed that this rank was fictitious. Furthermore he was at the time stated to be the Northern Natal leader of the absurd AWB outfit. By all accounts he had spoken at a public meeting at Northdene (a district in the southern Natal borough of Queensburgh) in the run-up to the 1992 Referendum. This would seem to be a very curious place for the AWB outfit to hold a meeting because Queensburgh was an overwhelming English-speaking borough, and the AWB outfit were of course notorious for wanting to drive all English-speaking White South Africans into the sea! Although the comments made by Markow as reported by the Natal Mercury were excellent, the fact that he made them on an AWB platform in a predominantly English-speaking town means that the actual effect of what he said was undoubtedly counter-productive. Either Mr.(and we are not going to use his fake rank of “General”) Markow was incredibly stupid therefore, or else he was a conscious agent of the sell-out NP administration. His subsequent actions in “conning” an acquaintance out of his car almost three decades later would certainly seem to suggest that it was the latter.
By all accounts our naïve colleague still hasn’t obtained his car back!
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June 2020 edition
We started the April 2020 Edition of the SCN by saying “Over the past month the entire world seems to have gone mad”. Alas since that date the madness inflicting the entire planet – or practically the entire planet – has not diminished in any way, but has actually become far worse, and even more frighteningly there have now emerged two parallel branches of madness poisoning the world. In his great and heroic speech of April 1968 Enoch Powell reminded everyone of the ancient Greek saying “Those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad”. The past four months would therefore seem to indicate that the Gods have despaired so much of the state of the world that they have decided that it would be best if it was to be destroyed completely.
The first madness of course has been the continuing hysteria and over-reaction towards the Covid-19 virus – or as we prefer more accurately to describe it, Wuhan Flu. In spite of all the increasing evidence that the extent and severity of this virus is nowhere near as catastrophic as the medicrats would have us believe, in spite of all the increasing evidence that the infection-rate per capita is no higher in countries such as Sweden and Belarus which did not enforce any “lockdown” than in those unfortunate counties which did, and in spite of all the evidence that the “lockdown” lunacy has ruined national economies for generations to come and has caused far more deaths from causes such as suicide, domestic violence and anger-induced high blood pressure than those which it has allegedly saved, the medicrat gauleiters around the world have continued to enforce their draconian rules restricting so many of our rights and freedoms.
But as we’ve said before, it is not the medicrats themselves or the simpleton politicians who are enthralled by them who we reserve our greatest contempt for, but rather the sheep-like people – now accurately termed by many as “sheeple” – who dutifully obey all their ridiculous dictates such as staying 2 metres (please, if they mean 6 feet then for goodness sake say 6 feet!) away from our fellow human-beings, only allowing a certain number of people into shops at a time, and now even insisting that everyone wear idiotic facemasks to look like Muslim women when boarding public transport! Tony Blair is not a person who we quote often, but his observation that the whole purpose of the “lockdown” campaign was to terrify everyone into obeying was undoubtedly correct.
The second madness is however, if anything, even more frightening. This involves the astonishing international growth of the so-called “Black Lives Matter” protest movement, which originated in the United States. Let’s get real here. This movement only began because an overweight crook was caught red-handed by Police in Minneapolis passing on forged banknotes, and then died whilst trying to resist arrest. In any decent and civilised society everyone would fully support the police in maintaining the law of course, but not it appears in today’s sick international societies. The criminal involved was Black of course, and for the past half-century there has been no more pampered and privileged section of US society than the Negroes – yet still they don’t seem satisfied. If it was only Blacks causing the subsequent riots, destruction and looting it would not be so bad of course, as it would simply be viewed as the Negro race reverting to type – but no, the most alarming aspect of the resulting international bandwagons has been the high number of self-hating Whites who have supported the insurrectionists. Yes, the Gods would certainly seem to want to destroy us!
But what has happened subsequently around the world has been even more demonic. Although not connected in any way to the death of the Black criminal in Minneapolis, the insurrectionists around the world have started to attack and destroy statues and memorials to our great patriotic heroes of the past - those who have helped to create our advanced civilised world of today. In the United States itself statues to Christopher Columbus (who re-discovered the American continent and thereby enabled Western civilisation to spread there) and Jefferson Davies (a hero figure in the Southern States, who fought to maintain States’ rights) have been torn down. In Britain statues to Edward Colston (a merchant venturer described as “a wise and virtuous man” who brought great prosperity to Britain by expanding Atlantic trade, and who proved a fantastic philanthropist in his native Bristol by bequeathing all his wealth to establish schools, hospitals and almshouses in the city), Robert Milligan (who was the driving force behind the foundation of London’s West India Docks, which of course brought further great wealth to Britain), Thomas Guy (a philanthropist who founded Guy’s Hospital) and Robert Baden-Powell (who founded the Boy Scouts movement) have all been attacked (though happily the statue to Robert Baden-Powell still stands). Even in Belgium the statue to their great King Leopold II (who using his own money opened up the whole of the Congo Basin in central Africa to the benefits of Western rule) has now been removed. Make no bones about it, these latest actions by the insurrectionist vermin have nothing to do with “Black Lives Matter” – THEY ARE A DECLARATION OF WAR ON OUR ENTIRE WESTERN CIVILISATION!
We are not conspiracy theorists, and at first view there seems to be no connection between these two manifestations of current madness. When examined more closely, however, there does appear to be strong circumstantial evidence that the two attacks upon our liberties and well-being are linked. There is growing evidence that the international insurrections were all pre-planned, and planned long before the Black criminal was killed in Minneapolis. Furthermore it is obvious that the Blacks could not have organised such criminality on a global-scale themselves, and that other far more sinister forces have been at work – sinister forces that can only be described as pure evil. These forces, who would seem to be fanatical supporters of egalitarian socialism, have perhaps simply been biding their time until some form of global crisis came about which would entail the complete “lockdown” of society so that no meaningful resistance to their diabolical plans could be organised. It is not outside the bounds of possibility therefore that the whole scare-story about a new strain of flu virus mutating which was so deadly that it warranted the total “lockdown” of Western societies was invented by these same sinister forces.
There have been a number of brave and praiseworthy campaigns initiated on social media and web-sites constructed on the Internet highlighting both the non-necessity of all the “lockdown” restrictions and the sinister nature of those behind the “Black Lives Matter” campaign (who President Trump has accurately identified as domestic terrorists), but alas such resistance in the cyber-world is not sufficient. What is needed is a true fight-back in the real world. There must be a campaign of mass defiance against all the draconian “lockdown” restrictions, and the domestic terrorists must be physically confronted. More fundamentally, however, all those weak (to use a charitable term) governments and authorities around the world who have imposed all the unjustifiable “lockdown” rules and have failed to stand up to all the evil attackers of our culture and heritage must be driven from power and – as in 1940 - replaced by new rulers who have the courage and backbone to abolish all “lockdown” regulations IMMEDIATELY, to arrest and then repatriate all those rioting, vandalising and looting in our streets – and to re-consecrate all the statues to our great heroes of the past!
If we don’t liberate ourselves from these two terrible evils and madnesses soon then our entire Western Civilisation will be destroyed, just as the Greek soothsayer predicted the Gods would do all those centuries ago – and what’s more they will be right in so doing!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
Of course all the continuing “lockdown” madness has meant that the Springbok Club has again been unable to stage any activities during the last month, and sickeningly the proposed new ruling that no-one can use public transport unless dressed like a Muslim woman means that no further activities can be expected in the immediate future. There was however one very important and maybe pivotal development for the organisation last month. This was the interview of the current Chairman of the organisation on the highly-respected expatriate South African on-line streaming channel Loving Life Live. For those who may have missed this interview live then a recording can still be viewed at:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoK8wrbjfbM
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
The same problems which have befallen the Springbok Club also of course affect the Patriotic Forum, and look as if they are going to get worse before they can get better. As we’ve said before, we are not conspiracy theorists, but we cannot help wondering whether one of the reasons why all the draconian “lockdown” regulations were imposed – especially regarding restrictions on the use of public transport – was in order to curtail the activities of patriotic organisations such as the Patriotic Forum, who were becoming increasingly critical of the current British government.
As no “live” activities can take place in the foreseeable future it is therefore more important than ever that we concentrate on the “written word”, and therefore spread the patriotic message by this means. Our Patriotic Forum Circulation Service will therefore be expanded on the Internet, featuring not only re-posted items from like-minded organisations, but also by containing more of our news and comments. More important in the “real world”, however, will be the circulation of hard-copy publications – and in this regard the following section is of great importance.
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
We are most pleased to be able to report that the 3rd Edition of The Imperial Patriot (numbered No.40 for continuity purposes) has now definitely been published, and copies distributed to all current UK subscribers. Copies to all subscribers from continental Europe will be posted out early next week. This achievement was only made possible by the generosity of a few dedicated supporters, to whom we extend our sincerest thanks. One supporter in particular has now taken out a standing order in favour of the magazine for £25.00 per month, and has accurately observed that if only 9 other supporters were prepared to do the same then not only would we be able to post out copies to all subscribers in the rest of the World speedily, but we would also be able to publish the next edition before the end of the year – and thereafter would be able to publish on a twice-yearly basis. We are sure that there must be at least another 9 supporters on the SCN circulation list who are in a position to contribute such as relatively small amount each month, and trust that they won’t let us down.
For all those who cannot afford £25.00 per month, and who are not already subscribers, then the best way to help is to take out a subscription, the current rates for 12 issues (including postage) being as follows :-
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Payments can of course also be made via PayPal. Simply quote the Patriotic Press/Patriotic Forum e-mail address of: swinton@netcomuk.co.uk and then confirm that payment is for Patriotic Press.
When you do make a payment please also e-mail us, so that we can correlate everything.
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MESSAGE FROM THE NETWORK FOR ANIMALS
We have recently received the following most disturbing message from the Network for Animals organisation :-
“A few weeks ago, in the poverty-stricken community of Bela Bela in South Africa, we encountered an act of such terrible cruelty it makes us shudder to think of it. A monster had hacked off a donkey’s legs, leaving it in ghastly pain to drag itself on bloody stumps to a lingering death.
“Imagine the pain the poor creature suffered! Your support is desperately needed so we can continue to help the innocent donkeys of Bela Bela!
“When we investigated, we found an entire community of donkey abuse. Bela Bela is so poor that people can barely feed themselves. Most animals must scavenge to survive, and donkeys are literally worked to death.
“Donkeys are used for transport. Grazing is scarce in the area and people can’t afford food, so the donkeys slowly starve, enduring lives of pain and hardship until death claims them. The people blame unemployment and have no idea how to solve the problem.
“But it’s more than this. Many people in Bela Bela see animals as objects, not sentient creatures who feel pain and know fear. Donkeys are throw-away items. Owners work them until they drop and then they get a new one.
“It’s a vicious cycle of work, neglect, cruelty and death. There’s no way we can stand by knowing this is happening. We promised to help, and with your support, we will.
“We are immediately providing emergency food relief for the poor creatures and teaching people basic animal care - explaining that regular food and water is vital to keep a donkey alive.
“So many of the donkeys are in heart-breaking condition, An injured donkey almost died in front of us. We saved her.
“While our team was in Bela Bela, we found a shivering, badly injured donkey. Her owner had completely neglected her, and she was in terrible condition.
“We tried to persuade the owner to let us treat the donkey and threatened to call the police if he did not. The donkey owner just laughed. (The sad truth is that the police do nothing about animal cruelty, even though it is against the law.)
“We did what we had to do, what you would have wanted us to do - we bought the donkey and SAVED HER LIFE. We named her Silvia.
“When Silvia arrived at the sanctuary we support, she was immediately treated for her injuries, but something still wasn’t right - she was compulsively neighing. The team noticed her udders were full of milk. Silvia HAD A BABY, and she was calling for it!
“We immediately went back to the owner and bought the baby as well! These two will be well-cared for, thanks to NFA supporters like you.
“Two donkeys saved, so many more to go… We urgently need to provide more food and veterinary care for the poor donkeys in Bela Bela, so please help if you possibly can.
“We estimate that at least 100 donkeys in Bela Bela are in the same terrible situation as Silvia. With your help, we can really improve their lives… hopefully making sure that no other donkey has their legs hacked off. Please, if you possibly can, donate today.
“For the Animals,
“Brian and Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!) - Founder and CEO.
“P.S. We have been trying to track down the culprit that mutilated the donkey, with no luck so far. People are scared to talk but, rest assured, we will keep digging. This person must be held responsible! Please be as generous as you can today. With your help, we will do everything in our power for these innocent donkeys.”
For more details about the Network for Animals organisation, or to make a donation, visit their web-site at: https://networkforanimals.org/
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DISGUSTING BEHAVIOUR BY SPORTS ADMINISTRATORS
The actions of practically all sports administrators in the Western world of meekly kow-towing to their respective governments’ dictates by suspending all competitions because of the Wuhan Flu outbreaks were acts of pure cowardice – but alas even worse actions have followed.
When Racing was allowed to resume in both France and the UK (behind closed doors alas) their respective Racing authorities ordered all their jockeys to dress up like Muslim women by wearing ridiculous facemasks, which not only made them look stupid but also could prove potentially dangerous. The same ludicrous dress regulations apparently also apply in certain states in the US – yet ironically there has been no such requirement for jockeys in Hong Kong (in a country of course where the Wuhan Flu virus first mutated!) to do the same whilst riding!
There have however been two far more shameful actions taken by sporting authorities in the UK which have been nothing less than acts of cowardly subservience to the evil rioting mob. Firstly the MCC have ordered the removal of portraits of one of their earliest administrators, Benjamin Aislabie, from the pavilion at Lords. Benjamin Aislabie was not only a one-time President of the MCC, but also served as its first secretary, holding this position for some two decades. He was evidently both greatly liked and highly-respected by all who knew him, so the removal of his portraits was therefore a disgusting insult to a great historical figure by his current-day heirs. The Soccer Premiership officials have however gone even further in their surrender to the baying mob, for by all accounts they have ordered players to bear the words “Black Lives Matter” on their shirts for the first few matches of the resumed season (again reprehensibly to be played behind closed doors!). The phrase “Black Lives Matter” is of course the slogan of the anti-White domestic terrorists who have caused so much conflict, destruction and looting around the world over the past few weeks, so to suck-up to these vermin in this way is both obscene and sickening in the extreme!
We therefore call upon all these cowardly and treacherous sporting officials who have behaved in such unspeakable ways to resign immediately, and to hand over to others who have more backbone and decency!
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FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT BY JOHN BROWNE
John Browne, the former Conservative MP for Winchester who spoke at a Patriotic Forum meeting in December of last year, has recently forwarded us the following most informative article which he has written about the financial effects of Brexit :-
BREXIT DIVORCE LIKELY HURTS EU AND AFFECTS U.S.
As Big Ben struck 11.00 pm on January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom broke free of the European Union in a bloodless revolution against global socialism. As such, it was by far the most important event of the 21st Century to date.
The main reason for Brexit’s massive importance is that the EU is the first great experiment by the global élite in the eradication of nations in preparation for world government. The initial central thrust of the EU was to destroy the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ which lies at the core of international finance and the so-called Western World. Their global sophisticated nuclear deterrents with their separate U.S.-UK decision processes hold at bay major enemies who are left to conduct covert methods of socialist subversion and terrorism. As such, Brexit will affect the lives of millions if not billions of people worldwide, including the United States.
The submission of Article 50 of the European Treaty triggered the UK’s departure. Now, under Article 184 the UK and EU must negotiate a political divorce that, under Article 77, will be termed ‘The Political Document’. It will cover most areas of politics, law, trade and financial arrangements agreed to in the negotiations. Failure to agree likely will lead to a separation more painful to both sides, but separation nonetheless.
According to Eurostat, the 2018 EU population was 512.6 million of which the UK was 66.2 million. With some 446.4 remaining after Brexit in 27 countries, the UK was forecast, by both Prime Ministers Cameron and May’s ‘Project Fear’ to endure massive shortages of food and medical supplies, economic collapse and massive currency debasement. May voted to Remain. Her so-called withdrawal plan rumoured to have been negotiated secretly with Germany and misleadingly entitled Brexit, may have caused economic chaos. However, Parliament discarded May’s poisoned chalice on three occasions leading May to resign in disgrace in favor of Boris Johnson. The net result was the re-election of Johnson with massive party and parliamentary majorities. Boris will be standing up to the EU in which serious strategic weaknesses are becoming manifest.
On February 21, 2020, Bloomberg published an illuminating article titled, “Post-Brexit Budget Impasse Exposes Europe’s Divisions” It described how the EU summit, struggling to finance programs like agriculture, climate change, regional development and immigration is faced now by an $80 billion Brexit shortfall. Apparently, under the rotating presidency of Croatia, the meetings evolved into ill will and squabbling between changing groups over spending.
Stemming from the same Saxon origin and despite having fought each other tooth and nail in two World Wars, the British and Germans have strong mutual respect and affinity. Both believe in minimal government and maximum free trade. Accompanied by Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden they formed the frugal or ‘Northern group’, the economic engine of the EU. With a group vote of some 36.8 percent, they held minority veto power over EU budgets. They were able to block the socialist redistributive spending plans of the majority of Mediterranean and former Soviet member nations, led often by France and known as the ‘Beneficiary Group’.
However, with the departure of the UK, as the second largest EU economy and contributor, the Northern Group’s vote, even if bolstered by Austria and the Baltic states, shrinks to 27.8 percent losing its veto power. This crucial fact points to a fundamental schism and dangerous potential political threat within the EU. Although it could threaten the continued economic and even political viability of the EU and its euro currency, it is overlooked by most observes. However, it will not stray far from the minds of those negotiating the Brexit trade treaty.
Over some 36 of the past 46 months, the EU was seen as the all-powerful Goliath mocking publically the modest UK, David, of less that one eighth its size and led by a timid, unconvinced Prime Minister May. Today, the tables have turned dramatically. The UK is led now by a Brexit believing, Churchillian Prime Minister with almost unprecedented domestic political power and some potentially damaging stones in his sling pouch.
Forecast to collapse post Brexit, the UK economy has the fastest growth and lowest unemployment of the EU major economies with high business confidence and Sterling firm. In addition, rumour has it that vast investment funds are poised discreetly for UK allocation once the final UK/EU Political Document is published. In the streets, little austerity is apparent.
Looking ahead, the UK will be free to negotiate trade deals with all its old trading partners including the U.S., China, Japan, India, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Currently, the EU has agreements only with Japan and a partial one with Canada. Furthermore, the UK will be free, under World Trade Organization free trade rules, to negotiate deals with all individual EU member states. Already, there is a talk of an Anglo-German friendship treaty!
Despite the changed balance, the EU likely will persist in trying to punish the UK severely as a vivid example of the fate awaiting any EU member state which dares even apply to leave, as Nigel Farage described in the EU parliament, “the prison of nations.”
Emboldened by past successes, the EU has opened already in its characteristic bullyboy manner with bellicose media threats, demands for preconditions and time delays. Aware of EU history, Prime Minister Johnson has opened with a ‘time certain’ of December 31,2020 by which an agreement must be reached or there will be none. Round one to Boris.
The second aim of the EU will be to keep the UK in closely aligned “cohesion” with EU standards, rules and practices in order to prepare the ground for a future Socialist Prime Minister to surrender the UK once again to the EU. Likely Johnson is aware of this ploy and will not only resist, but fulfill his current policy of massive spending on poorer areas in the North with the aim of annihilating a Labour Party seen now as having ignored its base supporters.
Now the UK is free, Johnson will find it relatively easy to retain the supremacy of UK Common law; its sophisticated nuclear deterrent, its permanent seat on the UN Security Council; and control over its employment and immigration policies and of its oil fields. Likely it would result in popular uproar if he let slip any of these items central to political independence.
Likely, the EU will try hard to sabotage the London based financial services industry by means of discriminatory taxes and fees. Despite the pre-eminence of London’s financial market with the third largest stock market after Tokyo and New York with whom it shares an umbilical cord of common language, legal system and trading practices, the EU could cause damage. Therefore, Johnson may yield some points on UK fishing grounds and some industrial product standards.
Regardless, if Johnson negotiates a good US-UK trade deal, but is unable to see reasonable UK advantage in the EU negotiations likely he will leave without a deal. Germany, where the far right is gaining ground rapidly, will be dismayed to a degree that may threaten the EU and even the euro, now the world’s second currency. The 27 EU members likely will prosper individually, but a euro collapse would threaten the entire world with a financial catastrophe, involving the U.S. and most developed nations.
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DEEPAK LAL – A MAN WHO SHOWED THERE WAS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE
The recent death of Deepak Lal, the famed Indian economist, was of course a very sad event – but his life story also offers a potentially hopeful vision for the future. Unlike the “Black Lives Matter” fanatics who spout nothing but anti-White hatred, Deepak Lal’s life showed how Whites and non-Whites can live in a worldwide relationship of friendship and mutual respect. Let us hope therefore that as the century progresses it is Deepak Lal’s example of co-operation and friendly liaison which triumphs, rather than the thuggish hatred of the “Black Lives Matter” rioters. An excellent obituary to Deepak Lal from the Daily Telegraph can be accessed at :-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/05/06/deepak-lal-economist-became-fervent-admirer-raj-obituary/
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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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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 :-
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BOOK OFFERS
TALES OF IMAGINATION AND MYSTERY
Supporter Bob Vinnicombe from Australia has self-published a book, the reading of which might help while away the hours in this time of "self isolation" due to the Wuhan virus.
The book is “Tales of Imagination and Mystery”, 196 pages, small paperback.
If you like Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination or The Twilight Zone you will like these stories.
Price is Aus$25 overseas outside Australia, Aus$15 in Australia. Pay by PayPal to bobvinnicombe@gmail.com
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“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.
Trish also writes romantic suspense and romantic comedy fiction. www.trishjaxon.com
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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.259 - Mr. GERRY COLENBRANDER of Durban.
Gerry Colenbrander was briefly mentioned in the April 2020 Edition of the SCN as one of “Mad Mike” Hoare’s Congo mercenaries. He lived in Durban North and was very active in the patriotic movement in Durban during the late 1970s, being a keen supporter of the Save Rhodesia Campaign and once even paying out of his own pocket for Jaap Marais to travel down to the city to address a meeting prior to the HNP being formally established in southern Natal. Gerry Colenbrander never hid his earlier involvement as a Congo mercenary, though neither did he dwell upon it. Mysteriously, however, he completely disappeared from the scene during the 1980s after the HNP had been officially constituted in Durban and the patriotic movement in the city really started to make headway. Invitations to meetings sent to him were never returned however, thus indicating that he hadn’t died, but puzzlingly he never turned up at any of the events which he had been notified about. It would be very interesting to learn not only where he is now, but also what caused him to drop out from all activism during the 1980s.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
With all the current media hysteria about the Wuhan Flu outbreak it is refreshing to learn of the Lockdown Sceptics web-site, which takes a far more rational view about the whole situation. It features articles by a number of eminent writers including Toby Young, and presents measured and well-researched arguments counteracting all the mainstream media brainwashing. Of particular encouragement is the fact that it also seems to detect a link between all the “lockdown” madness and the current worldwide “Black Lives Matter” rioting. It can be accessed at :-
https://lockdownsceptics.org/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
WOKE UP AUSTRALIA
Sir,
Thanks once again for your excellent SCN. Re the “Wuhan virus" I am ashamed and embarrassed how my fellow Australians have succumbed so quickly and easy to the police state without a whimper. Democracy is now dead, replaced by a dictatorship which uses Gestapo/KGB tactics as their enforcer. Where are the men to stand up to all this? All this has been achieved by panic and fear. I am not sure if Australia was threatened again in war, whether the WOKE generation would come for the fore and overcome.
Yours etc.,
Reg A.Watson, Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia..
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SWEET & SOUR PEANUTS
Sir,
One theory is: The world does lockdown because WHO told everyone to do so, because China told WHO to do so, because China wants the world to go bankrupt, so they can buy everything for peanuts.
Yours etc.,
Heinrich Koch, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
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DEADLY CONSEQUENCE
Sir,
A consequence of Lockdown which might interest some of your readers.
Criminals by nature are unlikely to abide by Lockdown if they can profit by it, but we do have a serious problem with the unemployed and poor section of our population whose only apparent alternative is to starve to death.
Yours etc.,
Johan Geelvink, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
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ANTI-SOCIALISING SOCIALISM
Sir,
Thanks for the SCN and the info’.
I greatly appreciated your editorial on the Wuhan Virus. In Thailand, we even have Prohibition. Organized crime is now starting to enter in to fill the void, just like in 1920 (U.S.A.). Thailand firmly believes that Prohibition is preventing socialising and keeping deaths low; but there is simply no scientific evidence to back this up.
The harm which is being inflicted upon us civilians by the Medicrats is beyond belief. We have millions of families about to run out of money and Thailand has had an economic contraction of 24% from this madness; the worst in Asia and on a par with the Great Depression. We had breadlines forming until the authorities forced the starving masses to return home; of course with no food to offer them in return. It is just absolutely disgusting; but that's what Socialism does. This is the reality of living in a nation whereupon the State takes over; and I guess that I can only hope that the average person eventually identifies this for what it is and wakes up and revolts. In an authoritarian state, there is no innovation, no opportunity, no hope of change - you are ordered to stay in your lane and accept your fate as the so-called "new normal."
It's just shameful.
Yours etc.,
J. Jellison, Bangkok, Thailand.
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TELLING IT AS IT WAS
Sir,
Your obituary on Allan Robertson (see March 2020 SCN – Ed.) was extremely gracious after his treacherous betrayal of you as a friend and political college - though I wouldn't expect anything else from you. A lesser man would have given him "both barrels", with justification.
Yours etc.,
Paul Armstrong, Camberley, Surrey, U.K.
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OUT OF AFRICA
Sir,
I met Mike Hoare in the Shuter and Shooter Bookshop I was managing in 1977. I had read “Mercenary, the story of Hoare” and being an ex-military officer I was keen to speak to him. We had a chat and he was extremely humble and downplayed his history which I knew to have been incredibly exciting.
A few years earlier while at the Zimbabwe Ruins in Fort Victoria I lost the keys to my Jaguar -.an old classic 5.6 litre for which I had to buy extra fuel coupons just to drive from my Gwelo motel into town and back, a distance of four km. Anyway, while I was searching for my keys I was alerted to the fact that my keys had been found by Spike Milligan. I was over the moon and that night Spike and his sons and I had a few quiet ones [interrupted by fierce laughter from all four of us].
The people you meet in Africa!
Yours etc.,
Adrian Keefe, New South Wales, Australia
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ROGUES GALLERY
In the September 2019 Edition of the SCN, in an article entitled “Lunacy in the ‘new’ South Africa”, we recounted the very sad tale about how a long-standing but tragically very naïve supporter still trapped in the “new” South Africa had been “conned” out of his car by a highly dubious acquaintance. We didn’t name either of the two parties involved, but told how the “con-man” in question was using the title of “General”, although subsequent investigations had revealed that his claim to this rank was fake. We also revealed how this character was claiming to have revived the joke AWB outfit, a phoney organisation which during the late 1980s and early 1990s had been established and used by the sell-out NP government in order to divide and discredit genuine White resistance to their surrender plans, and to demonise the “Vote NO” campaign at the 1992 Constitutional Referendum.
We have subsequently been sent a most interesting press cutting from the Natal Mercury of March 6th 1992 which contained a very informative article about the individual concerned. He was named as Monty Markow, and the fact that this article constantly placed his claimed rank of “General” in inverted commas simply confirmed that this rank was fictitious. Furthermore he was at the time stated to be the Northern Natal leader of the absurd AWB outfit. By all accounts he had spoken at a public meeting at Northdene (a district in the southern Natal borough of Queensburgh) in the run-up to the 1992 Referendum. This would seem to be a very curious place for the AWB outfit to hold a meeting because Queensburgh was an overwhelming English-speaking borough, and the AWB outfit were of course notorious for wanting to drive all English-speaking White South Africans into the sea! Although the comments made by Markow as reported by the Natal Mercury were excellent, the fact that he made them on an AWB platform in a predominantly English-speaking town means that the actual effect of what he said was undoubtedly counter-productive. Either Mr.(and we are not going to use his fake rank of “General”) Markow was incredibly stupid therefore, or else he was a conscious agent of the sell-out NP administration. His subsequent actions in “conning” an acquaintance out of his car almost three decades later would certainly seem to suggest that it was the latter.
By all accounts our naïve colleague still hasn’t obtained his car back!
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Sunday, 10 May 2020
May 2020 Edition.
SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
May 2020 edition
It has been very reassuring to receive many supportive responses to our hard-hitting editorial in last month’s SCN, in which we questioned the extent and severity of the current Wuhan Flu epidemic, heavily criticised the draconian “lockdown” measures which had been enforced worldwide to deal with it, and condemned all those supine individuals who had been willing to comply with these tyrannical restrictions without any resistance. To be sure, we did receive a couple of messages opposing the line which we have taken, and two more which were very ambiguous in nature, but on the whole the reaction from our readers has been most encouragingly positive, with several saying that they would re-circulate our comments. It would seem therefore that our supporters possess far more common-sense than the average citizen!
During the last month there have been several further specific developments which have only increased suspicions about the true situation prevailing around the world. Firstly the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was himself admitted to hospital allegedly suffering from the COVID-19 virus (Wuhan Flu). Since then rumours have abounded that he had actually tested negative for COVID-19 and that in reality he had been stricken by another similar flu-like virus which had been around for many years. If true – and even if not – this simply reminds everyone that in the past other nasty infectious viruses have been floating around in the atmosphere without any busybody medicrats previously advocating that the whole of society should be closed down in order to deal with them! We have also of course had the cases of two prominent advocates of the “lockdown” restrictions themselves quite openly flouting them – Dr. Catherine Calderwood and Professor Neil Ferguson. Quite clearly therefore these two leading experts are fully aware that the “lockdown” regulations are unwarranted.
But there is another far more sinister individual sitting on one of the UK Government’s advisory panels. Her name is Susan Michie and she sits on the “COVID-19 Behavioural Science Advisory Group”. Michie is a Health Psychologist at University College London, and has appeared on BBC2’s Newsnight attempting to justify the imposition of the draconian “lockdown” restrictions. But it is not her academic qualifications or pronouncements which concern us however, but the fact that she is a leading member of the Communist Party of Britain! The CPB broke away from the official Communist Party of Great Britain in 1988 in order to advocate more extreme Stalinist policies and to follow a pro-Peking agenda. For an alleged Conservative Government to appoint a person with such vile anti-democratic views to sit on an important scientific advisory panel is surely nothing short of disgusting!
As we emphasised in last month’s editorial, not all medical advisors around the world advocate “lockdown” policies in order to restrict the spread of Wuhan Flu. It is not only Sweden and Belarus who have taken a more sensible position in this regard, but also we hear Cambodia and Nicaragua, with Mongolia abandoning a “lockdown” after a very short period, and several European countries making the restrictions only advisory. It is difficult to compare how the two different approaches have resulted however, as figures from many Western countries are totally unreliable. This is not only because no distinction between those dying with Wuhan Flu and those dying from Wuhan Flu is made, but furthermore because many deaths from other strains of flu-like viruses are also counted in order to “boost numbers” – and indeed we have even received a report of a death from a clear heart attack having “COVID-19” recorded on the death certificate as a contributory cause of death! When total deaths are compared to those in similar periods in previous years are analysed, however, initial results suggest that although the numbers have hardly altered in Sweden and Belorus, they have risen significantly in those countries like the UK where the “lockdown” restrictions have been vigorously enforced. This is not only because of higher suicide, domestic violence and high blood-pressure death rates which we mentioned last month, but also because people with other life-threatening conditions have either been too scared to enter hospital, or because the hospital authorities have only interested in treating those who have tested positive for Wuhan Flu! It would seem therefore that those who have enforced the “lockdown” lunacy have blood on their hands.
So why therefore have so many nations succumbed to all this unjustified panic and over-reaction to the Wuhan Flu epidemic? In authoritarian states ranging from Orbán’s Hungary on the Right to Ramaphosa’s “new” South Africa on the Left it has undoubtedly been in order for them to establish even greater totalitarian control; in the United States it has been because states where the Donkey Party is in power they have wanted to damage President Trump; and in most of the EU it has been because they are frightened to disobey Auntie Angela. In Britain, however, the main reason is clearly quite different – indeed it is openly stated! The aim isn’t to save lives - it is to save the “precious” National Health Service!
Before WW2 Britain had an excellent and efficient health sector based on free-market principles, where independent hospitals and GPs were free to run their own practices with no centralised bureaucratic interference. For the poor and under-privileged who could not afford health services there was a system known as “The Panel” which operated perfectly adequately. This however was not good enough for the Attlee Labour Government which sadly came to power after WW2, who were hell-bent on imposing socialist medicine onto the UK. This was orchestrated by their Minister of Health, the demonic Aneaurin Bevan. Bevan was a hideous character, both physically and ideologically. Initially an ardent socialist and member of the Labour Party, he defected to Sir Oswald Mosley during the early 1930s, before returning to the Labour Party before the start of WW2. He didn’t join the wartime coalition government however, but sat on the tiny opposition benches, and here he delivered one of the most disgraceful speeches made during the war years, when he condemned the National Government (who were then of course fighting a war for national survival) for not doing enough to support the Soviet Union! A decade later, moreover, he made an equally treacherous speech in Trafalgar Square in which he condemned Britain’s action during the Suez Crisis. The NHS which Bevan created soon became notorious for providing free medical treatment to all and sundry upon demand, and as a result acquired the nickname of the “National Hypochondriacs Service”!
Since then the NHS has become something of a secular religion for the Left and others who should know better, and all criticism of it has become verboten. This has never been more apparent than during the current Wuhan Flu epidemic of course, for as we know there have been many quite ludicrous manifestations of support for it. But has all this praise for socialist medicine been justified? When it was initially believed that the NHS didn’t have enough beds where did they look for help – eh, the private sector, When it was realised that they didn’t possess sufficient ventilators who did they approach to manufacture extra supplies – eh, the private sector. When it was then believed that new hospitals had to be established urgently (the “Nightingale Hospitals”, which have actually been barely used) who did they look to to construct them – eh, the private sector. When it was discovered that the NHS had allowed most of the protection equipment for its staff to become out of date without renewing them, who did they approach to replace everything – eh, the private sector. It seems obvious therefore that in spite of the NHS receiving over £140.4 BILLION in taxpayers’ money each year the private sector can still do things far more efficiently than they can - so surely it is therefore time to privatise the lot of it!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
It goes without saying that because of all the continuing “lockdown” nonsense the Springbok Club was again unable to stage any activities last month. The organisation has however managed to obtain four excellent guest speakers for the next few months, once all restrictions have been lifted. We’ve also learnt the splendid news that a member from East Anglia celebrated VE Day by displaying a large REAL South African flag at the front of the house where he was living!
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
The Patriotic Forum has also of course been unable to stage any events during the last month because of all the “lockdown” lunacy. The planned joint celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the landing of Captain James Cook at Botany Bay and of Empire Day will still be staged IMMEDIATELY that all the draconian “lockdown” restrictions have been lifted however - though we can also report that the Patriotic Forum reminded everyone of the anniversary of Captain Cook’s claiming of Australia for the British crown both by e-mail and via FaceBook, so that all supporters could celebrate this important occasion in their own individual way!. The organisation is also provisionally planning six other activities for the latter part of the year.
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
As we reported last month, the third edition of The Imperial Patriot (which will be numbered No.40 for continuity reasons) has now been completely written, so all that remains now is for it to be printed and distributed. Unfortunately our appeal for funds to do this last month was not completely successful. If everyone on the SCN circulation list was to contribute only £1.00 then we would have sufficient funds to print the magazine; if everyone could donate merely £2.00 then we would have a sufficient amount both to pay for the printing and for the postage to all our subscribers around the world. By far the best means to help, however, if you’re not already a subscriber, is to take out a subscription, and current subscription rates for 12 editions (including postage) are as follows :-
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MESSAGE FROM THE NETWORK FOR ANIMALS
We have recently received this following most sorrowful message from the Network for Animals organisation :-
“When a country suffers, its animals suffer most. We urgently need help to save donkeys in Zimbabwe!
“The country is suffering from the worst drought in 40 years. In some parts of Zimbabwe, it hasn’t rained in over a year. The drought is so bad the UN say two million people could starve to death and is raising hundreds of millions of dollars to help them. Animals aren’t getting that kind of help so it’s up to animal lovers like us to help.
“Donkeys can’t find food on their normal grazing pastures and their owners, who depend on the donkeys to pull transport carts, can’t afford to buy food because prices have sky-rocketed.
“Donkeys are dying daily, and our team saw starving donkeys everywhere.
“We found an emaciated donkey foal who had been abandoned and left to die. He was badly dehydrated and so weak from starvation, he couldn’t walk – and his pulse was fading. We worked as fast as we could. We talked to him while we worked – calling him “Simon” – to keep him conscious. We managed to get him to MARES, a donkey sanctuary that we support financially. We thought he was on the road to recovery but, as we write this – we have just learned that he has passed away.
“We have tears in our eyes. We must save donkeys like Simon. Please, please help us. We desperately need donations to buy hay bales for the donkeys in Zimbabwe to help get them through this drought.
“Network for Animals relies entirely on donations from generous animal lovers like you. People are desperately poor in Zimbabwe, and simply can’t help. We must help!
“Please, if you possibly can, donate to Network for Animals now, so that we can come to the aid of the donkeys of Zimbabwe. Time is running out, and we are desperately concerned about their plight!
“For the Animals,
“Brian and Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!) - Founder and CEO.
“P.S. Donkeys are such gentle, undemanding and quiet-natured creatures. They want nothing more from us than care and love. Please help us save them.”
For more details about the Network for Animals organisation, or to make a donation, visit their web-site at: https://networkforanimals.org/
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NEWS OF MARTIN POTTER
Most readers will probably remember Martin Potter, who together with Shaun Tomson was one of South Africa’s top Surfers during the early 1980s, and one of the leading Surfers in the World at the time. Upon prompting from Patrick Kenney, a great supporter of our movement, a keen Surfer himself and one of the most steadfast campaigners against beach integration, we carried a feature on Surfing in S.A.Patriot No.18. This article was accompanied by a picture of Martin Potter, (admittedly rather blurred!) who Patrick greatly admired and evidently knew fairly well. Martin Potter actually wasn’t South African by birth – he was born at Blyth in Northumberland – but his parents had emigrated to South Africa when he was 2 years old and whilst the country still enjoyed civilised rule. His mother however saw the writing on the wall for civilised South Africa before most of us however, and decided that in order to safeguard Martin’s Surfing career the family must return to the UK, settling at the Cornish Surfing paradise of Newquay. Alas little more was heard of Martin Potter after this move, but we’ve recently learnt that he is now a leading commentator on the sport for the World Surfing League World Tour, and is now based in Victoria, Australia. It was good to learn that Martin is still heavily involved with Surfing therefore, and we wish him and his family every success for the future.
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AUSTRALIA REMEMBERS
Reg Watson from Tasmania, Australia, has recently forwarded us a copy of the following extremely well-researched and historically fascinating article which he’s written in order to mark the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s landing at Botany Bay :-
“April 26th this year will be the 250th anniversary of the first voyage of James Cook and the first European discovery of the eastern coast of Australia then known at New Holland.
“On the 26th August 1768, one of the world’s greatest explorers, James Cook, left Plymouth England on the bark, The Endeavour, of 370 tons, originally called The Earl of Pembroke. Then a lieutenant (commissioned by King George III) and not captain, this Yorkshireman of forty years of age was ordered to sail to Tahiti where the transit of Venus was observed the 3rd June 1769. It was hoped that by doing so, the distance could be worked out between the sun and the earth. Navigation depended on astronomy, so besides being a voyage of exploration it was also a scientific one. On board with Cook were some notable people, such as astronomer, Charles Green, two well-known naturalists, Swedish Dr Daniel Carl Solander and 25 year old Joseph Banks together with assistants and artist John Reynolds and artist and naturalist Herman Sporing. There were also a crew of 71 and 12 marines, making a total of 93 men.
“Cook was also innovative in that he took measures to prevent scurvy (lack of vitamin C) in his men, making sure they ate fresh meat, fruit, vegetables, pickled cabbage and vinegar where ever possible. He looked after the men’s clothing, so they would have dry and warm things to wear in the cold latitudes. He also took musical instruments, books and fishing lines for the men to use in their time off.
“Opening his sealed orders after the transit, he was told to explore the existence of any great land south of Tahiti to latitude 40. Leaving the south Pacific island he took a chief with him named Tupaia. Not finding any great south land he sailed for New Zealand. There he met the local natives, which was a peaceful encounter, leaving on the 1st March 1770 after five months sailing around the two islands. He then had to make a decision to return directly to England via Cape Horn or to go home via the Cape of Good Hope. So, on 1st April 1770 the Endeavour sailed westward towards Van Diemen’s Land. On the 20th April, second-in-command, Lieutenant Zachary Hicks sighted land which was on the north-east coast of Victoria. Cook named it Point Hicks. Nine days later, 29th April, following the coast, he anchored for the first time in Australian waters at a spot now known as Kurnell, a site on Botany Bay. Cook ordered his wife’s cousin Isaac Smith to ‘jump ou’” and set foot on land. Therefore Able Seaman Smith was the first recorded Englishman to set foot on Australian soil. The following day, in the afternoon, Cook, Banks, Solander and Tupaia landed. Here they met some aborigines and a minor altercation occurred, but efforts of friendship were fruitful. They stayed for a week. During this time, Seaman Forby Sutherland died of illness on the 2nd May and became the first European known to die on the shore. Sutherland District takes his name. Also one sailor deserted and what became of him no one knows.
“There are numerous memorials to the landing, sometimes confusion with the date. This is because Cook’s log dates are a day behind calendar dates. After leaving, further exploration and landings occurred. Port Jackson, Port Stephens, Cape Hawke, Moreton Bay, Cape Townhend, the Barrier Reef, Magnetic Land, Whitsunday Passage and many other points and localities were named. Off the coast of Queensland the Endeavour struck a reef and after 23 hours on the rocks, Cook succeeded in heaving her off into deep waters. He did this by throwing overboard guns, ballast, casks, decayed stores, in an effort to lift the ship off the coral on the next high tide. Initially he was unsuccessful; finally in a higher tide the Endeavour was free and floating. In his journal he gave the overall name of “New South Wales.” He then sailed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea and landed at Batavia, where a number of his companions and crew died from malaria. Finally Cook returned to England where he became the hero of the day.
“So what are we doing to celebrate and highlight this remarkable man and his most important historical voyage to our land? Very little I am afraid, whereas New Zealand is planning substantial events. Here we are bereft of leadership on the issue. The replica of the Endeavour will be sailing around Australia for the anniversary, but in actual fact, it only sailed the eastern coast. There will be a number of exhibitions. How can such a powerful event be down-played by the nation? One can only shake one’s head for lack of fibre.
“Cook, as we should all know, had two more voyages and after the second voyage he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died 14th February 1779 while in Hawaii on his third voyage.
“How do we sum up Cook? His meticulous maps of his discoveries and his humanitarian treatment of both his crew and the people he came in contact with have given him a heroic reputation which has lasted for centuries.”
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ORANGISM THRIVES IN Co.DONEGAL
A supporter currently based in the Philippines has recently informed us about a most inspiring YouTube video featuring the annual Orange Order parade at Rossnowlagh in Co. Donegal. It is tremendously encouraging to see how even after 98 years of falling under the Republic of Ireland the Orange culture of their brother Ulster counties is still thriving in this part of Co. Donegal. This video can be viewed at :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnUmuihreUU
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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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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
TALES OF IMAGINATION AND MYSTERY
Supporter Bob Vinnicombe from Australia has self-published a book, the reading of which might help while away the hours in this time of "self isolation" due to the Wuhan virus.
The book is “Tales of Imagination and Mystery”, 196 pages, small paperback.
If you like Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination or The Twilight Zone you will like these stories.
Price is Aus$25 overseas outside Australia, Aus$15 in Australia. Pay by PayPal to bobvinnicombe@gmail.com
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“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.
Trish also writes romantic suspense and romantic comedy fiction. www.trishjaxon.com
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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.258 - Mr. GEORGE TYERS of Cape Town.
George Tyers was born in 1975, and was living in Cape Town in 1996. He worked as an armed response officer at Camps Bay, and his father was an Anglican clergyman. If anyone has any clue about where he can now be traced please let us know.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
In the December 2019 Edition of the SCN, in the tail-piece article entitled “’Bumler’ – 20 years of Good Riddance”, we asked whether anyone could locate a copy of the article “Brendan Joseph Willmer – the Career of a Political Phony” which had been written during the 1980s. We are now happy to be able to announce that a supporter has managed to find a copy of this article, which has accordingly now been placed on-line. Although Willmer was a complete rogue who did great harm to the patriotic movement in Southern Africa during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and although he is long since dead and therefore has no current relevance, this article even so makes enthralling reading, and acts as a warning about the modus operandi of similar such political charlatans who might be around today. The on-line version of this revealing article can now be accessed at :-
http://www.springbk.org.uk/BJW-CPP.htm
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NOT SO MAD
Sir,
I never had the privilege of meeting “Mad Mike” Hoare, but have known people who did. "Mad Mike” was in real life eminently charming, intelligent, cultured, well-adjusted and a brilliant commander.
After an adventurous life serving in the British Army and organizing safaris, he first of all fought for Tshombe in the Western-betrayed secession of Katanga. Then, in 1964, he was summoned back to the Congo to spend a total of eighteen months founding and leading Five Commando-and seeing off the drug and blood-crazed Simbas, saving the Congo from Communism and barbarism.
Unfortunately in 1974 his offer to lead a force of between 1,500 and 2,000 men against Frelimo when the Portuguese collapsed in Mozambique was refuted by the appeasers running South African foreign policy at the time. While he was technical adviser on the film "The Wild Geese" I doubt if the Colonel was really based on him - Colonel Faulkner was a drunk; Colonel Hoare wrote that "Nobody will follow a booze artist - except possibly into a pub!"
As for the Seychelles - I wish he'd succeeded. Given proper backing he would have, and his treatment in prison by a vindictive government was far worse than Mandela's!
Politically he was against apartheid, against Communism, and for a better deal for the Blacks without handing over the country to them. South Africa could have done worse than make him President - and did!
Yours etc.,
Mark Taylor, London, U.K.
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FINAL DOWNFALL
Sir,
South Africa has now entered an economic recession which calls for bold, decisive action by government. Failing this, I foresee this country being taken over by anarchists and communists as unemployment rises, with no hope of economic improvement in sight.
Yours etc.,
Johan Geelvink, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
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FRAUDER-LOST
Sir,
Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg was pictured sitting next to Gregory Lauder-Frost at a dinner several years ago, after accepting an invite from the “Traditional Britain Group”. Confronted about the event, Mr Rees-Mogg admitted he had been tipped off about Lauder-Frost's views, but claimed Tory HQ had failed to corroborate the warning.
Rees-Mogg insisted he 'deeply regrets' attending a dinner party with such a far-right activist after being warned of his views. The Tory darling said he found the views of Gregory Lauder-Frost 'disgusting' and would never have gone had he been fully aware of them.
Gregory MacLennan Scholey Lauder-Frost (born Gregory Frost in August 1951) is an Australian-born convicted criminal and formerly associated with the right-most fringes of the Conservative Party. He is founder and vice-chairman of the “Traditional Britain Group” and is UK head of the far-right book publisher Arktos, seen as the publishing wing of the “alt-right” movement. Self-styled 'GLF' (an abbreviation of his initials), his opponents have been known to parody him as 'TPF' ('tonsured pleb frost') or 'Frauder-Lost'.
Yours etc.,
Richard Windsor, Canterbury, Kent, U.K.
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FRIENDS OF RHODESIA
Sir,
Many years ago I was involved in a campaign here in Tasmania to help a better awareness of Rhodesia and to off-set the madness of hate against the country. Later I was a medical reporter and met, interviewed and became friends with two gentlemen, one now dead, who though Welsh went to Rhodesia and set up within one of the districts the first blood-transfusion service. The other, a micro-biologist, was an ex-major in the South African Army, who led the campaign here in Tasmania to rid the State of hidatis. Not sure whether he, Dr Gold Smidt, is still around.
Yours etc.,
Reg A.Watson, Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia..
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MILLER’S TALE
Sir,
Most of my South African students are White. They came to Thailand in search of an affordable education, and the shot at emigrating to some other country where they can have a better life. There is no opportunity for them in South Africa, (from what I hear), so they came here.
Yours etc.,
J. Jellison, Bangkok, Thailand.
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KNIGHT’S TALE
Sir,
You deserve a knighthood for your great devotion to our national heritage and interests! I can assure you that, despite any minor differences in approach we might have, I greatly appreciate all the good work you’re doing and the time spent and your encouragement. May God richly bless and guide you!
Yours etc.,
Alex Knox-Wylie, Bath, Somerset, U.K.
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LIE DETECTOR
Sir,
The whole Wuhan thing is absolutely stupid. It's mass hysteria. Queensland was beautiful one day, then a police state the next.
Yours etc.,
Bob Vinnicombe, Sefton, N.S.W., Australia
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REGIMENTAL DISHONOUR
Sir,
I picked this link up whilst searching the web for sister Regiments of the Royal Irish. It’s an absolute disgrace and dishonour to the memory of Irish men who fought for the true South Africa. It would be on a par with renaming the Royal Irish Regiment the Gerry Adams Fusiliers!
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/new-reserve-force-unit-names/
Yours etc.,
A. Barr, Ballymena, Co.Antrim, U.K.
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ACTS OF DEFIANCE
Sir,
Many thanks for the very informative e-mails and all of the hard work you devote to it. I have had my doubts re this pandemic since the very beginning, but it is going to be very difficult ever to get to the real cause. A good and brave action would be for the world to wipe off their debts to China; they cannot, or would not want to argue with the rest of the world’s trading - but who would have the courage?
All this however should be a salutary lesson that we have to become a nation of producers, not consumers, which we should be, especially with the exponential rise of technology and AI making the need for imported cheap labour redundant. This in itself will bring problems from the bleeding-heart liberals re immigration and surplus labour, as our current population is approaching 70 million, 90% of which are a cost to the country.
My tiny contribution is that I never deal with companies that do not have their call centres in the UK, which would create much needed work, plus the spin off spending. Perhaps this is something we could all become involved with?
Yours etc.,
Roy Painter, St.Albans, Hertfordshire, U.K.
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OBITUARY
SIR STIRLING MOSS
It was with great sadness that we learnt of the recent death of Sir Stirling Moss, aged 90. Stirling Moss had been born in West London in1929, the son of a wealthy Yorkshire dentist and a mother who was a descendent of one of the Duke of Wellington’s leading army officers during the Napoleonic Wars. He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, but did not prove academically brilliant – not because of any lack of intelligence but because of pure disinterest. His main interest at school was sport, at which he excelled in all disciplines, especially Rugby.
After school, however, like his sister Pat, his sporting interests turned to the main pursuits of his parents – show jumping and motor racing. Although his sister continued a successful career in both sports, Stirling himself soon concentrated purely on motor racing. He had started driving an Austin 7 aged only 7, driving around an orchard owned by his father. He obtained a driving licence at the earliest age possible and immediately put down a deposit on his first racing car, a Cooper F3. His breakthrough came in 1950 however, when he won the Ulster TT in dreadfully wet conditions driving a Jaguar Sports Car. After that he had a wide choice of F1 teams eager to sign him up!
In all he drove in 530 races during his career, winning an incredibly high number of 212 of them. 16 of his victories were in F1 races, but surprisingly he never won the F1 World Championship, which he competed in from 1951 until his near-fatal crash in 1962. It has been calculated, however, that if the F1 World Championship had used the same scoring system in his day as it uses today then he would have been World Champion on four occasions! Perhaps his greatest achievement, however was winning the Mille Miglia race in Italy in 1955 in the fastest time ever recorded. (The Mille Miglia was a 1000 mile race around public roads in Italy in a “Tour de France type style”, which was discontinued after 1957 following demands from the Vatican that it be stopped on safety grounds).
But Sir Stirling Moss was not only a great motor racer, he was also – like so many others involved in motor sport in his day – a great patriot. He always tried to race in British cars whenever possible, and lived for most of his adult life in a personally designed house in Mayfair, London, rather than becoming a tax-exile in Monte Carlo like so many later F1 drivers decided to do. He also had no qualms about competing in South Africa during the days of civilised rule in that country, in spite of pressures from Left-wing extremists which alas many other sportsmen of the era succumbed to. Unfortunately, however, again like so many other patriotic motor racers of his time, his patriotism didn’t find form in any more direct political activities – but he was determined that his triumphs should not only reflect on himself personally, but also brought prestige to the country of his birth and ancestry.
Sir Stirling was nicknamed “The Boy” during the early part of his career, but this epithet was actually appropriate throughout his life, for he never lost his youthful enthusiasm. He also clearly believed in Nietzsche’s great injunction to “Live dangerously”, as he often stated that he thought there was no point in living if there wasn’t the spice of danger. He never competed professionally again after his serious crash of 1962 at Goodwood, but he maintained close involvement in motor sports for the rest of his life, giving advice and expertise to budding drivers and manufacturers alike. He was knighted in 2000, an accolade which many thought was long overdue. Always an incurable ladies man, he was married three times, and had a daughter and a son. Our sincerest sympathies are extended to his surviving wife and to his children.
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May 2020 edition
It has been very reassuring to receive many supportive responses to our hard-hitting editorial in last month’s SCN, in which we questioned the extent and severity of the current Wuhan Flu epidemic, heavily criticised the draconian “lockdown” measures which had been enforced worldwide to deal with it, and condemned all those supine individuals who had been willing to comply with these tyrannical restrictions without any resistance. To be sure, we did receive a couple of messages opposing the line which we have taken, and two more which were very ambiguous in nature, but on the whole the reaction from our readers has been most encouragingly positive, with several saying that they would re-circulate our comments. It would seem therefore that our supporters possess far more common-sense than the average citizen!
During the last month there have been several further specific developments which have only increased suspicions about the true situation prevailing around the world. Firstly the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was himself admitted to hospital allegedly suffering from the COVID-19 virus (Wuhan Flu). Since then rumours have abounded that he had actually tested negative for COVID-19 and that in reality he had been stricken by another similar flu-like virus which had been around for many years. If true – and even if not – this simply reminds everyone that in the past other nasty infectious viruses have been floating around in the atmosphere without any busybody medicrats previously advocating that the whole of society should be closed down in order to deal with them! We have also of course had the cases of two prominent advocates of the “lockdown” restrictions themselves quite openly flouting them – Dr. Catherine Calderwood and Professor Neil Ferguson. Quite clearly therefore these two leading experts are fully aware that the “lockdown” regulations are unwarranted.
But there is another far more sinister individual sitting on one of the UK Government’s advisory panels. Her name is Susan Michie and she sits on the “COVID-19 Behavioural Science Advisory Group”. Michie is a Health Psychologist at University College London, and has appeared on BBC2’s Newsnight attempting to justify the imposition of the draconian “lockdown” restrictions. But it is not her academic qualifications or pronouncements which concern us however, but the fact that she is a leading member of the Communist Party of Britain! The CPB broke away from the official Communist Party of Great Britain in 1988 in order to advocate more extreme Stalinist policies and to follow a pro-Peking agenda. For an alleged Conservative Government to appoint a person with such vile anti-democratic views to sit on an important scientific advisory panel is surely nothing short of disgusting!
As we emphasised in last month’s editorial, not all medical advisors around the world advocate “lockdown” policies in order to restrict the spread of Wuhan Flu. It is not only Sweden and Belarus who have taken a more sensible position in this regard, but also we hear Cambodia and Nicaragua, with Mongolia abandoning a “lockdown” after a very short period, and several European countries making the restrictions only advisory. It is difficult to compare how the two different approaches have resulted however, as figures from many Western countries are totally unreliable. This is not only because no distinction between those dying with Wuhan Flu and those dying from Wuhan Flu is made, but furthermore because many deaths from other strains of flu-like viruses are also counted in order to “boost numbers” – and indeed we have even received a report of a death from a clear heart attack having “COVID-19” recorded on the death certificate as a contributory cause of death! When total deaths are compared to those in similar periods in previous years are analysed, however, initial results suggest that although the numbers have hardly altered in Sweden and Belorus, they have risen significantly in those countries like the UK where the “lockdown” restrictions have been vigorously enforced. This is not only because of higher suicide, domestic violence and high blood-pressure death rates which we mentioned last month, but also because people with other life-threatening conditions have either been too scared to enter hospital, or because the hospital authorities have only interested in treating those who have tested positive for Wuhan Flu! It would seem therefore that those who have enforced the “lockdown” lunacy have blood on their hands.
So why therefore have so many nations succumbed to all this unjustified panic and over-reaction to the Wuhan Flu epidemic? In authoritarian states ranging from Orbán’s Hungary on the Right to Ramaphosa’s “new” South Africa on the Left it has undoubtedly been in order for them to establish even greater totalitarian control; in the United States it has been because states where the Donkey Party is in power they have wanted to damage President Trump; and in most of the EU it has been because they are frightened to disobey Auntie Angela. In Britain, however, the main reason is clearly quite different – indeed it is openly stated! The aim isn’t to save lives - it is to save the “precious” National Health Service!
Before WW2 Britain had an excellent and efficient health sector based on free-market principles, where independent hospitals and GPs were free to run their own practices with no centralised bureaucratic interference. For the poor and under-privileged who could not afford health services there was a system known as “The Panel” which operated perfectly adequately. This however was not good enough for the Attlee Labour Government which sadly came to power after WW2, who were hell-bent on imposing socialist medicine onto the UK. This was orchestrated by their Minister of Health, the demonic Aneaurin Bevan. Bevan was a hideous character, both physically and ideologically. Initially an ardent socialist and member of the Labour Party, he defected to Sir Oswald Mosley during the early 1930s, before returning to the Labour Party before the start of WW2. He didn’t join the wartime coalition government however, but sat on the tiny opposition benches, and here he delivered one of the most disgraceful speeches made during the war years, when he condemned the National Government (who were then of course fighting a war for national survival) for not doing enough to support the Soviet Union! A decade later, moreover, he made an equally treacherous speech in Trafalgar Square in which he condemned Britain’s action during the Suez Crisis. The NHS which Bevan created soon became notorious for providing free medical treatment to all and sundry upon demand, and as a result acquired the nickname of the “National Hypochondriacs Service”!
Since then the NHS has become something of a secular religion for the Left and others who should know better, and all criticism of it has become verboten. This has never been more apparent than during the current Wuhan Flu epidemic of course, for as we know there have been many quite ludicrous manifestations of support for it. But has all this praise for socialist medicine been justified? When it was initially believed that the NHS didn’t have enough beds where did they look for help – eh, the private sector, When it was realised that they didn’t possess sufficient ventilators who did they approach to manufacture extra supplies – eh, the private sector. When it was then believed that new hospitals had to be established urgently (the “Nightingale Hospitals”, which have actually been barely used) who did they look to to construct them – eh, the private sector. When it was discovered that the NHS had allowed most of the protection equipment for its staff to become out of date without renewing them, who did they approach to replace everything – eh, the private sector. It seems obvious therefore that in spite of the NHS receiving over £140.4 BILLION in taxpayers’ money each year the private sector can still do things far more efficiently than they can - so surely it is therefore time to privatise the lot of it!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
It goes without saying that because of all the continuing “lockdown” nonsense the Springbok Club was again unable to stage any activities last month. The organisation has however managed to obtain four excellent guest speakers for the next few months, once all restrictions have been lifted. We’ve also learnt the splendid news that a member from East Anglia celebrated VE Day by displaying a large REAL South African flag at the front of the house where he was living!
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PATRIOTIC FORUM NEWS
The Patriotic Forum has also of course been unable to stage any events during the last month because of all the “lockdown” lunacy. The planned joint celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the landing of Captain James Cook at Botany Bay and of Empire Day will still be staged IMMEDIATELY that all the draconian “lockdown” restrictions have been lifted however - though we can also report that the Patriotic Forum reminded everyone of the anniversary of Captain Cook’s claiming of Australia for the British crown both by e-mail and via FaceBook, so that all supporters could celebrate this important occasion in their own individual way!. The organisation is also provisionally planning six other activities for the latter part of the year.
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THE IMPERIAL PATRIOT
As we reported last month, the third edition of The Imperial Patriot (which will be numbered No.40 for continuity reasons) has now been completely written, so all that remains now is for it to be printed and distributed. Unfortunately our appeal for funds to do this last month was not completely successful. If everyone on the SCN circulation list was to contribute only £1.00 then we would have sufficient funds to print the magazine; if everyone could donate merely £2.00 then we would have a sufficient amount both to pay for the printing and for the postage to all our subscribers around the world. By far the best means to help, however, if you’re not already a subscriber, is to take out a subscription, and current subscription rates for 12 editions (including postage) are as follows :-
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MESSAGE FROM THE NETWORK FOR ANIMALS
We have recently received this following most sorrowful message from the Network for Animals organisation :-
“When a country suffers, its animals suffer most. We urgently need help to save donkeys in Zimbabwe!
“The country is suffering from the worst drought in 40 years. In some parts of Zimbabwe, it hasn’t rained in over a year. The drought is so bad the UN say two million people could starve to death and is raising hundreds of millions of dollars to help them. Animals aren’t getting that kind of help so it’s up to animal lovers like us to help.
“Donkeys can’t find food on their normal grazing pastures and their owners, who depend on the donkeys to pull transport carts, can’t afford to buy food because prices have sky-rocketed.
“Donkeys are dying daily, and our team saw starving donkeys everywhere.
“We found an emaciated donkey foal who had been abandoned and left to die. He was badly dehydrated and so weak from starvation, he couldn’t walk – and his pulse was fading. We worked as fast as we could. We talked to him while we worked – calling him “Simon” – to keep him conscious. We managed to get him to MARES, a donkey sanctuary that we support financially. We thought he was on the road to recovery but, as we write this – we have just learned that he has passed away.
“We have tears in our eyes. We must save donkeys like Simon. Please, please help us. We desperately need donations to buy hay bales for the donkeys in Zimbabwe to help get them through this drought.
“Network for Animals relies entirely on donations from generous animal lovers like you. People are desperately poor in Zimbabwe, and simply can’t help. We must help!
“Please, if you possibly can, donate to Network for Animals now, so that we can come to the aid of the donkeys of Zimbabwe. Time is running out, and we are desperately concerned about their plight!
“For the Animals,
“Brian and Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!) - Founder and CEO.
“P.S. Donkeys are such gentle, undemanding and quiet-natured creatures. They want nothing more from us than care and love. Please help us save them.”
For more details about the Network for Animals organisation, or to make a donation, visit their web-site at: https://networkforanimals.org/
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NEWS OF MARTIN POTTER
Most readers will probably remember Martin Potter, who together with Shaun Tomson was one of South Africa’s top Surfers during the early 1980s, and one of the leading Surfers in the World at the time. Upon prompting from Patrick Kenney, a great supporter of our movement, a keen Surfer himself and one of the most steadfast campaigners against beach integration, we carried a feature on Surfing in S.A.Patriot No.18. This article was accompanied by a picture of Martin Potter, (admittedly rather blurred!) who Patrick greatly admired and evidently knew fairly well. Martin Potter actually wasn’t South African by birth – he was born at Blyth in Northumberland – but his parents had emigrated to South Africa when he was 2 years old and whilst the country still enjoyed civilised rule. His mother however saw the writing on the wall for civilised South Africa before most of us however, and decided that in order to safeguard Martin’s Surfing career the family must return to the UK, settling at the Cornish Surfing paradise of Newquay. Alas little more was heard of Martin Potter after this move, but we’ve recently learnt that he is now a leading commentator on the sport for the World Surfing League World Tour, and is now based in Victoria, Australia. It was good to learn that Martin is still heavily involved with Surfing therefore, and we wish him and his family every success for the future.
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AUSTRALIA REMEMBERS
Reg Watson from Tasmania, Australia, has recently forwarded us a copy of the following extremely well-researched and historically fascinating article which he’s written in order to mark the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s landing at Botany Bay :-
“April 26th this year will be the 250th anniversary of the first voyage of James Cook and the first European discovery of the eastern coast of Australia then known at New Holland.
“On the 26th August 1768, one of the world’s greatest explorers, James Cook, left Plymouth England on the bark, The Endeavour, of 370 tons, originally called The Earl of Pembroke. Then a lieutenant (commissioned by King George III) and not captain, this Yorkshireman of forty years of age was ordered to sail to Tahiti where the transit of Venus was observed the 3rd June 1769. It was hoped that by doing so, the distance could be worked out between the sun and the earth. Navigation depended on astronomy, so besides being a voyage of exploration it was also a scientific one. On board with Cook were some notable people, such as astronomer, Charles Green, two well-known naturalists, Swedish Dr Daniel Carl Solander and 25 year old Joseph Banks together with assistants and artist John Reynolds and artist and naturalist Herman Sporing. There were also a crew of 71 and 12 marines, making a total of 93 men.
“Cook was also innovative in that he took measures to prevent scurvy (lack of vitamin C) in his men, making sure they ate fresh meat, fruit, vegetables, pickled cabbage and vinegar where ever possible. He looked after the men’s clothing, so they would have dry and warm things to wear in the cold latitudes. He also took musical instruments, books and fishing lines for the men to use in their time off.
“Opening his sealed orders after the transit, he was told to explore the existence of any great land south of Tahiti to latitude 40. Leaving the south Pacific island he took a chief with him named Tupaia. Not finding any great south land he sailed for New Zealand. There he met the local natives, which was a peaceful encounter, leaving on the 1st March 1770 after five months sailing around the two islands. He then had to make a decision to return directly to England via Cape Horn or to go home via the Cape of Good Hope. So, on 1st April 1770 the Endeavour sailed westward towards Van Diemen’s Land. On the 20th April, second-in-command, Lieutenant Zachary Hicks sighted land which was on the north-east coast of Victoria. Cook named it Point Hicks. Nine days later, 29th April, following the coast, he anchored for the first time in Australian waters at a spot now known as Kurnell, a site on Botany Bay. Cook ordered his wife’s cousin Isaac Smith to ‘jump ou’” and set foot on land. Therefore Able Seaman Smith was the first recorded Englishman to set foot on Australian soil. The following day, in the afternoon, Cook, Banks, Solander and Tupaia landed. Here they met some aborigines and a minor altercation occurred, but efforts of friendship were fruitful. They stayed for a week. During this time, Seaman Forby Sutherland died of illness on the 2nd May and became the first European known to die on the shore. Sutherland District takes his name. Also one sailor deserted and what became of him no one knows.
“There are numerous memorials to the landing, sometimes confusion with the date. This is because Cook’s log dates are a day behind calendar dates. After leaving, further exploration and landings occurred. Port Jackson, Port Stephens, Cape Hawke, Moreton Bay, Cape Townhend, the Barrier Reef, Magnetic Land, Whitsunday Passage and many other points and localities were named. Off the coast of Queensland the Endeavour struck a reef and after 23 hours on the rocks, Cook succeeded in heaving her off into deep waters. He did this by throwing overboard guns, ballast, casks, decayed stores, in an effort to lift the ship off the coral on the next high tide. Initially he was unsuccessful; finally in a higher tide the Endeavour was free and floating. In his journal he gave the overall name of “New South Wales.” He then sailed through the strait between Australia and New Guinea and landed at Batavia, where a number of his companions and crew died from malaria. Finally Cook returned to England where he became the hero of the day.
“So what are we doing to celebrate and highlight this remarkable man and his most important historical voyage to our land? Very little I am afraid, whereas New Zealand is planning substantial events. Here we are bereft of leadership on the issue. The replica of the Endeavour will be sailing around Australia for the anniversary, but in actual fact, it only sailed the eastern coast. There will be a number of exhibitions. How can such a powerful event be down-played by the nation? One can only shake one’s head for lack of fibre.
“Cook, as we should all know, had two more voyages and after the second voyage he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died 14th February 1779 while in Hawaii on his third voyage.
“How do we sum up Cook? His meticulous maps of his discoveries and his humanitarian treatment of both his crew and the people he came in contact with have given him a heroic reputation which has lasted for centuries.”
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ORANGISM THRIVES IN Co.DONEGAL
A supporter currently based in the Philippines has recently informed us about a most inspiring YouTube video featuring the annual Orange Order parade at Rossnowlagh in Co. Donegal. It is tremendously encouraging to see how even after 98 years of falling under the Republic of Ireland the Orange culture of their brother Ulster counties is still thriving in this part of Co. Donegal. This video can be viewed at :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnUmuihreUU
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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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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
TALES OF IMAGINATION AND MYSTERY
Supporter Bob Vinnicombe from Australia has self-published a book, the reading of which might help while away the hours in this time of "self isolation" due to the Wuhan virus.
The book is “Tales of Imagination and Mystery”, 196 pages, small paperback.
If you like Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination or The Twilight Zone you will like these stories.
Price is Aus$25 overseas outside Australia, Aus$15 in Australia. Pay by PayPal to bobvinnicombe@gmail.com
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“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.
Trish also writes romantic suspense and romantic comedy fiction. www.trishjaxon.com
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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.258 - Mr. GEORGE TYERS of Cape Town.
George Tyers was born in 1975, and was living in Cape Town in 1996. He worked as an armed response officer at Camps Bay, and his father was an Anglican clergyman. If anyone has any clue about where he can now be traced please let us know.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
In the December 2019 Edition of the SCN, in the tail-piece article entitled “’Bumler’ – 20 years of Good Riddance”, we asked whether anyone could locate a copy of the article “Brendan Joseph Willmer – the Career of a Political Phony” which had been written during the 1980s. We are now happy to be able to announce that a supporter has managed to find a copy of this article, which has accordingly now been placed on-line. Although Willmer was a complete rogue who did great harm to the patriotic movement in Southern Africa during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and although he is long since dead and therefore has no current relevance, this article even so makes enthralling reading, and acts as a warning about the modus operandi of similar such political charlatans who might be around today. The on-line version of this revealing article can now be accessed at :-
http://www.springbk.org.uk/BJW-CPP.htm
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NOT SO MAD
Sir,
I never had the privilege of meeting “Mad Mike” Hoare, but have known people who did. "Mad Mike” was in real life eminently charming, intelligent, cultured, well-adjusted and a brilliant commander.
After an adventurous life serving in the British Army and organizing safaris, he first of all fought for Tshombe in the Western-betrayed secession of Katanga. Then, in 1964, he was summoned back to the Congo to spend a total of eighteen months founding and leading Five Commando-and seeing off the drug and blood-crazed Simbas, saving the Congo from Communism and barbarism.
Unfortunately in 1974 his offer to lead a force of between 1,500 and 2,000 men against Frelimo when the Portuguese collapsed in Mozambique was refuted by the appeasers running South African foreign policy at the time. While he was technical adviser on the film "The Wild Geese" I doubt if the Colonel was really based on him - Colonel Faulkner was a drunk; Colonel Hoare wrote that "Nobody will follow a booze artist - except possibly into a pub!"
As for the Seychelles - I wish he'd succeeded. Given proper backing he would have, and his treatment in prison by a vindictive government was far worse than Mandela's!
Politically he was against apartheid, against Communism, and for a better deal for the Blacks without handing over the country to them. South Africa could have done worse than make him President - and did!
Yours etc.,
Mark Taylor, London, U.K.
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FINAL DOWNFALL
Sir,
South Africa has now entered an economic recession which calls for bold, decisive action by government. Failing this, I foresee this country being taken over by anarchists and communists as unemployment rises, with no hope of economic improvement in sight.
Yours etc.,
Johan Geelvink, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
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FRAUDER-LOST
Sir,
Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg was pictured sitting next to Gregory Lauder-Frost at a dinner several years ago, after accepting an invite from the “Traditional Britain Group”. Confronted about the event, Mr Rees-Mogg admitted he had been tipped off about Lauder-Frost's views, but claimed Tory HQ had failed to corroborate the warning.
Rees-Mogg insisted he 'deeply regrets' attending a dinner party with such a far-right activist after being warned of his views. The Tory darling said he found the views of Gregory Lauder-Frost 'disgusting' and would never have gone had he been fully aware of them.
Gregory MacLennan Scholey Lauder-Frost (born Gregory Frost in August 1951) is an Australian-born convicted criminal and formerly associated with the right-most fringes of the Conservative Party. He is founder and vice-chairman of the “Traditional Britain Group” and is UK head of the far-right book publisher Arktos, seen as the publishing wing of the “alt-right” movement. Self-styled 'GLF' (an abbreviation of his initials), his opponents have been known to parody him as 'TPF' ('tonsured pleb frost') or 'Frauder-Lost'.
Yours etc.,
Richard Windsor, Canterbury, Kent, U.K.
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FRIENDS OF RHODESIA
Sir,
Many years ago I was involved in a campaign here in Tasmania to help a better awareness of Rhodesia and to off-set the madness of hate against the country. Later I was a medical reporter and met, interviewed and became friends with two gentlemen, one now dead, who though Welsh went to Rhodesia and set up within one of the districts the first blood-transfusion service. The other, a micro-biologist, was an ex-major in the South African Army, who led the campaign here in Tasmania to rid the State of hidatis. Not sure whether he, Dr Gold Smidt, is still around.
Yours etc.,
Reg A.Watson, Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia..
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MILLER’S TALE
Sir,
Most of my South African students are White. They came to Thailand in search of an affordable education, and the shot at emigrating to some other country where they can have a better life. There is no opportunity for them in South Africa, (from what I hear), so they came here.
Yours etc.,
J. Jellison, Bangkok, Thailand.
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KNIGHT’S TALE
Sir,
You deserve a knighthood for your great devotion to our national heritage and interests! I can assure you that, despite any minor differences in approach we might have, I greatly appreciate all the good work you’re doing and the time spent and your encouragement. May God richly bless and guide you!
Yours etc.,
Alex Knox-Wylie, Bath, Somerset, U.K.
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LIE DETECTOR
Sir,
The whole Wuhan thing is absolutely stupid. It's mass hysteria. Queensland was beautiful one day, then a police state the next.
Yours etc.,
Bob Vinnicombe, Sefton, N.S.W., Australia
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REGIMENTAL DISHONOUR
Sir,
I picked this link up whilst searching the web for sister Regiments of the Royal Irish. It’s an absolute disgrace and dishonour to the memory of Irish men who fought for the true South Africa. It would be on a par with renaming the Royal Irish Regiment the Gerry Adams Fusiliers!
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/new-reserve-force-unit-names/
Yours etc.,
A. Barr, Ballymena, Co.Antrim, U.K.
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ACTS OF DEFIANCE
Sir,
Many thanks for the very informative e-mails and all of the hard work you devote to it. I have had my doubts re this pandemic since the very beginning, but it is going to be very difficult ever to get to the real cause. A good and brave action would be for the world to wipe off their debts to China; they cannot, or would not want to argue with the rest of the world’s trading - but who would have the courage?
All this however should be a salutary lesson that we have to become a nation of producers, not consumers, which we should be, especially with the exponential rise of technology and AI making the need for imported cheap labour redundant. This in itself will bring problems from the bleeding-heart liberals re immigration and surplus labour, as our current population is approaching 70 million, 90% of which are a cost to the country.
My tiny contribution is that I never deal with companies that do not have their call centres in the UK, which would create much needed work, plus the spin off spending. Perhaps this is something we could all become involved with?
Yours etc.,
Roy Painter, St.Albans, Hertfordshire, U.K.
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OBITUARY
SIR STIRLING MOSS
It was with great sadness that we learnt of the recent death of Sir Stirling Moss, aged 90. Stirling Moss had been born in West London in1929, the son of a wealthy Yorkshire dentist and a mother who was a descendent of one of the Duke of Wellington’s leading army officers during the Napoleonic Wars. He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, but did not prove academically brilliant – not because of any lack of intelligence but because of pure disinterest. His main interest at school was sport, at which he excelled in all disciplines, especially Rugby.
After school, however, like his sister Pat, his sporting interests turned to the main pursuits of his parents – show jumping and motor racing. Although his sister continued a successful career in both sports, Stirling himself soon concentrated purely on motor racing. He had started driving an Austin 7 aged only 7, driving around an orchard owned by his father. He obtained a driving licence at the earliest age possible and immediately put down a deposit on his first racing car, a Cooper F3. His breakthrough came in 1950 however, when he won the Ulster TT in dreadfully wet conditions driving a Jaguar Sports Car. After that he had a wide choice of F1 teams eager to sign him up!
In all he drove in 530 races during his career, winning an incredibly high number of 212 of them. 16 of his victories were in F1 races, but surprisingly he never won the F1 World Championship, which he competed in from 1951 until his near-fatal crash in 1962. It has been calculated, however, that if the F1 World Championship had used the same scoring system in his day as it uses today then he would have been World Champion on four occasions! Perhaps his greatest achievement, however was winning the Mille Miglia race in Italy in 1955 in the fastest time ever recorded. (The Mille Miglia was a 1000 mile race around public roads in Italy in a “Tour de France type style”, which was discontinued after 1957 following demands from the Vatican that it be stopped on safety grounds).
But Sir Stirling Moss was not only a great motor racer, he was also – like so many others involved in motor sport in his day – a great patriot. He always tried to race in British cars whenever possible, and lived for most of his adult life in a personally designed house in Mayfair, London, rather than becoming a tax-exile in Monte Carlo like so many later F1 drivers decided to do. He also had no qualms about competing in South Africa during the days of civilised rule in that country, in spite of pressures from Left-wing extremists which alas many other sportsmen of the era succumbed to. Unfortunately, however, again like so many other patriotic motor racers of his time, his patriotism didn’t find form in any more direct political activities – but he was determined that his triumphs should not only reflect on himself personally, but also brought prestige to the country of his birth and ancestry.
Sir Stirling was nicknamed “The Boy” during the early part of his career, but this epithet was actually appropriate throughout his life, for he never lost his youthful enthusiasm. He also clearly believed in Nietzsche’s great injunction to “Live dangerously”, as he often stated that he thought there was no point in living if there wasn’t the spice of danger. He never competed professionally again after his serious crash of 1962 at Goodwood, but he maintained close involvement in motor sports for the rest of his life, giving advice and expertise to budding drivers and manufacturers alike. He was knighted in 2000, an accolade which many thought was long overdue. Always an incurable ladies man, he was married three times, and had a daughter and a son. Our sincerest sympathies are extended to his surviving wife and to his children.
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