SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
July 2015 edition
It was of course with great joy and relief that we recently heard the news that our good friend and great South African patriot Clive Derby-Lewis had been released from prison, albeit only on parole and with conditions which basically amount to house arrest. The message which we received from Clive’s wife Gaye informing us about this welcomed development reads as follows :-
“Clive was released on 5 June on medical parole, after a monumental court battle where the judge called the minister (who refused the medical parole application) dishonest and irregular, among other condemnations. What a vengeful, vicious bunch is the South African Communist Party neanderthals, right out of the politburo (but of course they enjoy the fruits of capitalism to the fullest!) Albert Schweitzer was right!
“So to keep him ‘buried’ they have sentenced him to house arrest. This is not parole of course. He’s not allowed to leave the house – can’t even attend church.
“However, Clive is at least out of prison and enjoying the sunshine and the QUIET. Nobody knows what it’s like in a South African prison. There is noise ALL THE TIME. They shout and they call and they play their music ad infinitum. So now after 22 years he has peace and quiet.
“He is bearing up well to his treatment.
“He will have his computer up and running soon so he can correspond with you himself.
“Thanks once again for your continued support and the support of your members and associates.
“Rest assured South Africa will slide down the slippery slope as we predicted. Why weren’t people listening?
“Anyway we take each day as it comes and Pretoria is such a beautiful place, we have wonderful indigenous trees and hibiscus and date palms in our garden, so it’s a real pleasure to enjoy a cup of tea on the grass and a chat with friends.
“Lots of love,
“Gaye”
Clive Derby-Lewis was of course convicted of the murder of the terrorist leader Chris Hani - although not even the prosecution tried to imply that he was directly involved in the elimination of this known terrorist, only that he allegedly supplied the weapon which was used to kill him. The evidence which was presented to convict him in this regard was however so flimsy that it would never have stood up in the courts of any first-world country. So why was the ANC regime so keen to incarcerate and thereby to silence the highly-respected former Conservative MP Clive Derby-Lewis? The reason is that he was by far the most articulate and popular English-speaking spokesman for the White South African opposition, as he constantly confirmed by his powerful oratory and non-stop dynamism opposing the NP’s sellout policies throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The ANC regime could live with opposition from the Afrikaner community (and there were – and still are – many able and articulate Afrikaner resistance spokesmen), but if the Afrikaner opposition could be united with their British-South African brothers in a display of White Unity then the ANC’s hold on power could well be threatened. Clive Derby-Lewis was of course the most likely person to be able to galvanize this united opposition. This is why he had to be silenced.
Our movement has constantly tried to highlight Clive Derby-Lewis’s plight, and indeed were instrumental in trying to establish a “Free Clive Derby-Lewis Campaign” during the mid-1990s. We were however asked by his family to abandon this campaign as it was feared that it might damage their attempts to have him released through the courts. We of course complied with this request immediately. Since then, however, we have tried the best we could (though we must admit that at times we may have somewhat neglected his plight as other aspects of the struggle became more dominant) to remind everyone about the terrible ongoing persecution which he was experiencing, as several past editions of the SCN and S,A.Patriot-in-Exile will confirm.
We of course extend to Clive every good wish both for a happy and successful life free from captivity, and hope that both his health can improve and that the draconian conditions of his release will soon be relaxed. We would also like to extend to him our apologies for the fact that we never tried harder to try to ensure his release.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
The Springbok Club gave its full support to New Britain’s Canada Day celebrations earlier this month, a full report about which appears in the New Britain News section below.
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The Kent Branch of the Springbok Club aims to hold a braai to celebrate Rhodes and Founders Day later this month. All fully paid-up members of the Springbok Club and all supporters of the Kent Branch will be informed of the precise details of this event in due course, but if any other supporters would like to attend please let us know by e-mailing springbk@netcomuk.co.uk
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On Tuesday 25th August the Springbok Club will stage a meeting in central London which will be addressed by a visiting guest speaker from a well-known South African family. In September the Springbok Club has again been invited to participate in the annual “Raising of the Flag” ceremony in Norfolk, whereat the Organiser of the organization has once more been invited to deliver one of the keynote speeches. In October the Kent Branch of the Springbok Club will be staging an interesting conducted tour of some of the historic sites in the Medway Towns, and in November the organization will be holding its annual UDI Day celebration, when the guest of honour will be a prominent ex-Rhodesian..
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SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
The Swinton Circle was most honoured to be able to welcome Mr. James Lockwood as guest speaker for its June meeting, who gave a most riveting and eloquent talk about the life and career of Lord Carson (Sir Edward Carson). During the following questions and answers session Mr. Lockwood also told something about his experiences on the BBC Mastermind quiz programme, where his specialist subject had been the life and career of Lord Carson. We would therefore like to thank Mr. Lockwood for giving the organization such and informative and indeed inspiring talk about this great British patriot.
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The details of the Swinton Circle’s July meeting are as follows :-
Date : Friday 31st July 2015
Time : 18.30 hrs for 19.00 hrs.
Venue : The Morpeth Arms (the upstairs “Spying Room”), 58 Millbank, London SW1P 4RW. (nearest tube station: Pimlico)
Guest Speaker : Mr. Paul Weston - the Party Leader of LibertyGB
Paul Weston was born in London and is currently leader of the increasingly prominent patriotic and EuroWithdrawalist party LibertyGB. As a highly respected writer for the Gates of Vienna web-site, he contributed many acclaimed articles highlighting the threat posed to the West by expansionist Islam. Mr. Weston stood as UKIP candidate for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency at the 2010 General Election before founding LibertyGB, for whom he stood as candidate in the South-East England EuroElection constituency in 2014. He also stood as their Parliamentary candidate for Luton South this year. He gave a highly impressive performance when interviewed by Andrew Neil on the BBC’s Daily Politics programme shortly before the General Election, and his speech following the recent PEGIDA march and rally at Newcastle-upon-Tyne was regarded by observers as a masterpiece. He rose to national prominence when he was arrested on the steps of Winchester Guildhall for quoting a passage from Sir Winston Churchill’s book “River War” which was highly critical of Islam – a ridiculous arrest which quickly resulted in no charges being leveled. Apart from politics he takes a keen interest in most sports, and enjoys a broad range of reading.
The title of his speech will be “The Threat from the Left”, though he will also touch upon the Islamic threat to British and European identity.
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The Swinton Circle is delighted to announce that its book-selling arm – Swinton Books – is now fully up and running, with an Amazon Seller’s Profile upon which all books available are advertised now having been established. For more details please e-mail swintonbooks@gmail.com.
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Membership fees and donations to the Swinton Circle can be made via PayPal on the organisation’s web-site home page at www.swintoncircle.co.uk - simply 'click' on the line "PayPal = the safer, easier way to pay online" at the bottom of the home page; if the error message "This content cannot be displayed in a Frame" appears then simply 'click' on the line "Open this Content in a New Window".
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain’s Canada Day reception, held earlier this month, proved a most enjoyable event, and New Britain’s National Chairman, Mr. Dennis Delderfield, deserves full credit for organizing these pleasant celebrations. This event comprised of a Canadian-themed quiz (which was won by this present writer!), a brilliant speech about the recent history of Canada given by Ottawa-born Paul Griffin, the reading of a message received from the Canadian High Commissioner in London, and the playing and singing of the Canadian National Anthem by members of the Heroes Band whilst the Canadian Flag was raised and dipped by Linda Dopston. Wine was also served to attendees, and letters of fraternal support with the Canadian people were signed to be sent to both the Canadian Prime Minister and the Canadian High Commissioner.
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Details of New Britain’s forthcoming “Keep the United Kingdom United” pageant are as follows :-
Date : Monday 27th July 2015.
Time : 19.00 hrs.
Venue : St.Selphulcre’s Church Hall, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1 (diagonally opposite the Old Bailey).
Professional singers and dancers from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will be performing at this event, and the guests of honour will be Alderman Andrew Parmley (Sheriff of the City of London) and Mrs. Suzy Webb (Mayor of Spelthorne 2014/15).
Tickets cost £5.00 (which may be bought at the door), and for more information ‘phone: 020-72472524.
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New Britain is also initiating a campaign advocating that the Republic of Ireland should rejoin the Commonwealth, and is encouraging all people of goodwill to write to the President of the Republic of Ireland, His Excellency Michael D. Higgins, at Phoenix Park, Dublin 8, asking him to consider taking such a step.
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KNIGHTHOOD CAMPAIGNS
We were greatly delighted to hear the news that Gareth Edwards, the great Wales and British Lions scrum-half, had been awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Sir Gareth Edwards took part in probably the two greatest British Lions touring sides of all time, those to New Zealand in 1971 and to South Africa in 1974. He is universally accepted to have been not only one of the greatest scrum-halves of all time but also a fine sporting gentleman – and furthermore it must always be remembered that in order to take part in the 1974 tour of South Africa he had to withstand and defy a tremendous amount of intimidation and threats from the political Left. Sir Gareth Edwards is not the only Rugby great from that era who we believe richly deserves a knighthood however, as Willie-John McBride who captained the “Invincibles” during the 1974 Tour surely also deserves such an accolade. A campaign to encourage the awarding of a knighthood to Willie-John McBride is therefore shortly to be launched, and the details will be announced in a future edition of the SCN once the campaign begins.
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WORRYING REPORT FROM “NETWORK FOR ANIMALS”
We have recently received the following most disturbing report from the respected Network for Animals animal welfare organization. We ask all our readers to do the best they can to highlight this appalling situation which is being allowed to continue in the “new” South Africa :-
“The rhino-poaching catastrophe in South Africa is continuing without pause, as evil gangs slaughter rhino for their horns, using everything from machetes to assault rifles. The South African government is refusing to reveal the latest statistics on rhino poaching but experts say as many as ten rhinos are dying every day.
“One reason rhino are being slaughtered are people in Vietnam, who wrongly believe that rhino horn powder is a magical cure-all. As we well know, it cures nothing but the greed of the poacher, and then only until their next brutal kill.
“The work we do is usually not glamorous or headline grabbing; we work with the authorities to help them make sensible laws and improve anti-poaching abilities. We assist orphaned rhino, help anti-poaching efforts, and we lobby for sanity to prevail. We need worldwide bans on the trade in rhino horn to be implemented, maintained, and most importantly: enforced.
“If we are unable to act with conviction, our grandchildren may think of rhino as we think of dinosaurs: A facet of history, never to be seen again.”
The Network for Animals organization can be contacted via their web-site at : https://networkforanimals.org/contact/
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SCN BLOGSPOT NOW COMPLETE!
We would like to thank our supporter who forwarded us copies of the “missing” three editions of our SCN which we initially were not able to download onto our SCN blog-spot, as reported in the April 2015 edition of the SCN. Needless to say, all these three “missing” editions have now been added to this blog-spot, so that all issues of the SCN from our first ever edition in August 1998 can now be viewed on-line at :-
http://springbokcybernewsletter.blogspot.co.uk/
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"BLUE WATCH" by Gwyn Fford-Osborne
Rhodesia, in 1975 and a bloody vicious civil war is at its height. A war between the White minority supported by the Black majority and the ZAPU and ZANU terrorist groups, supported by Zambia and Mozambique. Kensington, a small town in the farming belt has been the subject of several terrorist attacks but with only a small police force for defence, the local T.A. unit having been called up for service on the Zambia border the situation appears grim. Until Iffor Meredith turns up on a pilgrimage to meet up with his wife and son of his old army buddy, recently murdered by terrorists. A deadly ambush on the "Dix" family and his escape from a land mine attack makes Iffor determined to offer resistance of some form or other to the terrorists. His application to join the Rhodesian Army has been accepted and he sets about forming a small militia. With all the fit men already on call up, who can he recruit from. Then he's invited to a darts match at the Moth Club and meets up with the remnants of the town's Fire Brigade, the men considered too old for call up. Blue Watch.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.200 – Dr. COLIN BARLOW of Rhodesia.
Dr. Colin Barlow, a dentist by profession and a keen amateur golfer, was a leading member of the Rhodesian Action Party who opposed what they saw as the sellout tendencies within the Rhodesian Government during the late 1970s. Together with other great Rhodesian patriots such as Owen Parvess he founded the Rhodesia Movement which proposed a last-ditch federal solution to save the country, and in this capacity he toured South Africa under the auspices of the Save Rhodesia Campaign during late 1978 to encourage Rhodesians living in South Africa at the time to vote “NO” at the vital Rhodesian Constitutional Referendum of 30th January 1979. He gave a highly inspirational speech at the Fonteinebleau Room of the Blue Waters Hotel in Durban during this tour, and gained many admirers for his determined and forward-looking stance. It would be very interesting to learn what subsequently became of him.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
A supporter has recently forwarded us these most enlightening video-recordings presented by The Order of the Blue Sword, which although produced during the 1970s still accurately highlight many of the immigration problems which have re-surfaced during the post-Thatcher years. We believe that this will be of interest and will provide much useful background information for many of our readers, and can be accessed at :-
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Sir,
I once had a letter published in TNT magazine defending Julius Malema's right to free speech in the face of prosecution by the South African government. I trust that he will not object to my exercising mine in this respect and saying that the man is one or more of the following - a demagogue, economic illiterate, race baiting, fool. I was a passionate supporter of Ian Smith and Rhodesia in the 1970s and consider myself to have been vindicated for the last few decades - and this maniac wants to bring his policies down South? Compare and contrast Rhodesia and Zimbabwe!
Yours etc.,
Mark Taylor, London, U.K.
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ANOTHER BRIC IN THE WALL ……
Sir,
As the BRICS nations fall out of favor with the West over the next decade it will be possible for a new nation which has mineral wealth and a good sea harbour. (Richards Bay should do it I think) to arise. In the meantime I believe TB, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and a whole host of other nasty illnesses will spread far and wide amongst the Bantu rabble that proclaim the RSA “Azania”, and their lands will prove “no farmer no food” as they take the farms by force. The Bantu are an idiot race of criminal thinking people. You know the Swedish government and their doctors have proved that criminality and people who commit senseless crimes are really just mentally ill. This sums up Mandela and his nation of murdering Ubuntu idiots quiet well. The ANC terrorised South Africa with bombs, murders and burning people alive in public till they got the retards to vote for them out of fear. The ANC gangsters will probably be in power for another 25 years, then the masses of Bantu youth by the million will rebel quiet violently and chase them out of government. By this time South Africa will be in total ruins while another blood-thirsty mongrel climbs over thousands of burnt corpses to the top just like Mandela did with his crime syndicate the ANC.
Yours etc.,
Richard Windsor, Canterbury, Kent, U.K.
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GOOD QUESTIONS
Sir,
The April edition of the SCN was an excellent issue!
I have Peter Griffith's book "A Question of Colour" published in 1966. It's a pretty good read. Why doesn't the Church speak out over the grooming of British girls in Rotherham by Pakistani men?!
Yours etc.,
John Walker, Horsham, Sussex, U.K.
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END OF THE RAINBOW
Sir,
There is no underestimating the fact that those Whites remaining in South Africa are now in the cross-hairs of the Black majority. It is my belief that the political restraint exhibited towards Whites has ended.
Yours etc.,
Magnus, Westville, Natal, South Africa.
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ROGUES GALLERY
As many readers may be aware, our movement and certain of our leading members have recently been subjected to a malicious and vindictive Internet harassment campaign. This all begun when one of leading lady officials contacted us warning us to beware of a certain Mr. Jack Sen, who had evidently initially been a UKIP candidate at the recent General Election, but who had subsequently been suspended by the Party, and was now apparently trying to latch onto and to ingratiate himself with the expatriate South African community. We therefore investigated Mr. Sen (or “Sennapods” as he subsequently became known), and discovered that he had indeed been suspended from UKIP membership – the reason being because of a number of repulsive anti-Semitic comments which he had uttered, specifically some of a more personal derogative nature which were directed at Ms. Luciana Berger, the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, which were the subject of a Police investigation.
Sure enough, just a couple of days later we were contacted by Mr. Sennapods as pre-warned, though mysteriously he stated that he had been referred to us by a certain Mr. James Scrymgeour (Mr. Scrymgeour had previously attended a couple of Springbok Club and Swinton Circle meetings over the past 18 months, and indeed had always appeared a most friendly and genuine supporter – though significantly he had declined to join either organisation, and had objected to text messages being sent to him). Needless to say, we politely but firmly informed Mr.Sennapods that we did not wish to have any dealings with him. This was not only because of the unsavoury nature of his anti-Semitic stance which we had discovered, but also because he had openly stated that he was connected to an organisation called “The London Forum”. We had previously learnt something about this enigmatic outfit when they contacted us out of the blue towards the end and last year, but when we investigated them we discovered that in spite of their innocuous name they were in fact an overtly neo-fascist and indeed Holocaust-denying organisation, so we therefore of course declined their request for us to provide a speaker for one of their meetings!
The reaction of Mr. Sennapods to this rebuff can only be described as hysterical. He sent us a couple of abusive and threatening messages, in which inter alia he threatened to post smears about us on various unnamed American Internet forums which he claimed had large readerships. Sure enough, a couple of days later Mr. Sennapods sent us a copy of a defamatory item attacking us which had evidently been posted on an American web-site – but rather than being “large” this proved to be a totally obscure forum, and indeed was clearly of a rabid anti-Semitic nature! As one of our leading officials commented when he saw it, it was actually a “badge of honour” that we should be attacked by such vile people! The most bizarre aspect of this smear was the claim that our movement was not concerned about the plight of the Whites still trapped inside South Africa, and furthermore claimed that we denied that a genocide campaign against Whites was taking place! Such claims of course are the complete antithesis of the truth, as can so easily be disproved by examining all the documented records about our aims and activities over the past two decades! Anyone who could seriously believe and circulate these ridiculous lies must therefore be regarded as totally deranged! These disgusting smears however bear all the hallmarks of originating with the ANC regime, as we’ve known in the past that they’ve been spreading other similar such lunatic lies in order to try to discredit our movement with those still trapped in the “new” South Africa.
Shortly after Sennapods’ smear posting first appeared we started to be inundated with attacks both by e-mail and on our FaceBook page – but although initially very upsetting something very suspicious soon became obvious. The phraseologies used in all these attacks were very similar, and indeed in some cases the wording was totally identical. Quite clearly therefore they all originated from one source, though dozens of “sock puppet” names had evidently been used. This theory was further confirmed when after we had informed Mr. Sennapods that we would be contacting the Police to complain about his Internet harassment (something which we actually subsequently did) all these “sock puppet” attacks ceased just as quickly as they had begun!
The position of Mr.Scrymgeour in this whole sinister episode remains totally unclear, but what is clear to us is that just as was the case with the earlier evil smear campaign which we endured four years ago there seems to be a weird tie-up between the ANC regime and neo-Nazi cranks. At first though such a connection might seem highly unlikely, but both entities glory in the term “nationalist”, and of course both share a common paranoid hatred for the Jewish people. In view of the fact that we have reported Mr.Sen’s Internet harassment to the Police it is probably best not to comment at the moment about his suspected true intentions and motivations. All we will add is that what dumbfounds us most isn’t the fact that he was suspended by UKIP, but the fact that they ever selected him as a Parliamentary candidate in the first place!
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SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
June 2015 edition
In 1973 an apocalyptic novel was published in France entitled The Camp of Saints, written by Jean Raspail. The basic synopsis of this novel centred upon a mass co-ordinated invasion of France, and indeed Europe as a whole, by millions of third world minions. This novel was widely criticized at the time as being unrealistic and unbelievable – but now, some forty years later, it is coming true, as masses of poverty-stricken Africans and Arabs attempt to cross the Mediterranean in order to encamp themselves in Europe!
Make no bones about it, these “boat people” are not refugees – they are invaders. Just because they don’t carry weapons doesn’t mean to say that their aim isn’t the same as that of previous Islamic invaders of Europe, such as the Moors and the Ottomans. Their aim is to conquer and supplant the indigenous population of Europe, and to impose their own repressive religion upon the continent.
Recently we read a most devastating article in a publication entitled Vanishing England (No.10 – 20.2.2015) which revealed that the current “boat people” migration across the Mediterranean was all part of a deliberate plan by the Islamic Caliphate not only to invade Europe, but more specifically to seize Rome. Ever since an earlier Caliphate seized Constantinople in 1453, the article went on to illustrate, it has been the aim of Muslims to capture that other leading Christian city of Europe – Rome. The current Caliph, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi (the spiritual head of ISIS/ISIL in northern Syria and Iraq) is furthermore on record as stating on 13th November 2014 “The Jihadists will continue their advance until, by God’s will, they reach Rome” [English translation from original Arabic]. Now of course we know that most of our readers will not have much time for the theological position and global power of the Vatican, but it must be accepted that their hierarchy is basically European, and they are therefore infinitely preferable to any Arabic Muslim theocrats who aim to take their place.
Perhaps the most frightening aspect in the storyline of The Camp of Saints was the manner in which so many indigenous Europeans not only passively accepted the third world invasion of their homelands, but in many cases even positively welcomed them! Again we see sickening parallels taking place in real-life today. Instead of immediately transporting all the “boat people” rescued from the Mediterranean back to the countries from which they embarked (Libya, and to a lesser extent Syria), the Italian and other EU authorities incredibly transport them on to the lands which they intended to reach, and unbelievably allow them to stay there! But the extent of assistance given to the Islamic invasion by the liberal/leftist forces in Europe actually goes even further than this. The demonstrations organized by the liberal/leftist “rent-a-mobs” against Western interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya have intimidated Western leaders into withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan far too early, not taking any necessary military action in Syria, and not putting any “boots on the ground” in Libya following the overthrow of an earlier would-be Caliph – Gadaffi. Had Western leaders not bowed to the self-hating demands of the liberal/left protestors then it follows that, with Western forces in control, there would not have been any power-vacuum in Iraq, Syria and Libya, and thereby no opportunity for the “boat people” to launch their invasion ventures from these countries.
Alas however it is not only the overt liberals and leftists who have been guilty of complicity with the invasion. Many self-styled right-wing and/or patriotic leaders – most notably Mr. Nigel Farage, the current leader of UKIP (as we pointed out in the May edition of the SCN) - have openly sided with the “rent-a-mob” pro-Islamic fellow-travellers by criticizing the limited Western intervention in Libya and opposing similar military action in Syria. Such incredible stances adopted by so-called anti-immigration leaders have been at best so naïve that the proponents forfeit all right to be taken seriously, or else they demonstrate a hypocrisy which is beyond belief. Needless to say, we view such hypocritical pseudo-patriots with even more contempt than we view the more obvious liberal/left!
But what needs to be done to stop the Islamic invasion and to defeat the Caliphate’s aim of conquering Europe? First defence spending in all Western countries must immediately be increased substantially, and then Western forces (and by Western we include Russia) must be swiftly and effectively deployed in the countries most implicated (Syria, Iraq and Libya) to seek out and destroy ISIS/ISIL, and then to occupy the coastal and border areas in order to prevent any further migration attempts into Europe. Once these military aims have been accomplished then a second wave of intervention from the great European nation-states must be enacted, but this time in the form of new colonial administrators who can re-establish order and good governance. Once this has been done then it should be relatively easy to repatriate all non-Europeans currently living on the European continent back to their lands of ethnic origin. Finance to accomplish these aims could come in part by abolishing all overseas aid budgets – after all eradicating the causes of poverty and establishing effective and non-corrupt administration is surely the best form of foreign aid which we can possibly give to the ordinary citizens of these third world countries!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
The Springbok Club proved that it was fully back on the road again after the difficulties of earlier this year by staging a successful and most enjoyable trip to Southend-on-Sea last month, where inter alia they were able to view an art exhibition being staged by Mr. Roger Alsop at the town’s central library.
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The Springbok Club aims to give its full support to New Britain’s forthcoming Canada Day event (see New Britain News column) in order to show its commitment to Commonwealth solidarity. In July the Springbok Club will be holding its annual Rhodes and Founders celebration meeting which will feature a most interesting guest speaker, and in August the organization will be welcoming a highly respected visiting guest speaker from South Africa. In September the Springbok Club has again been invited to participate in the annual “Raising of the Flag” ceremony in Norfolk, and the Kent Branch of the organization is aiming to hold an informal braai later during the year.
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SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
The Swinton Circle’s Spring Buffet held last month proved a great success. It was good to see a number of old faces present again for the first time for several years, as well as the presence of several new supporters. The guest speaker, Mr. John Petley, gave a highly enthralling speech in which as well as recounting some of his experiences whilst working for three years at the EU Parliament in Brussels, also told something of his opinions about the current state of the Withdrawalist movement (a term which he prefers to EuroSceptic) in the UK today. In spite of all the problems currently engulfing UKIP he was optimistic about the eventual triumph of the Withdrawalist movement as a whole, but warned everyone about the potential problems which could be encountered during the forthcoming In/Out Referendum campaign, though he also explained how he thought these could be overcome. The new venue used for this function turned out to be first-class, and the standard of buffet snacks provided proved to be superlative.
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In order to mark the forthcoming United Kingdom Day the Swinton Circle has decided to make its June meeting an early United Kingdom Day event – and the theme couldn’t be more appropriate! The details are as follows :-
Date : Thursday 18th June 2015
Time : 18.30 hrs for 19.00 hrs.
Venue : The MORPETH ARMS (the upstairs “Spying Room”), 58 Millbank, London SW1P 4RW. (Nearest tube station: Pimlico)
Guest Speaker : Mr. JAMES LOCKWOOD LL.B., A.K.C.
- who will be speaking about the life and career of Lord Carson (Sir Edward Carson).
James Lockwood was born at Pembury and raised at Tunbridge Wells in Kent. He read Law at King's College, London. After graduating he worked for almost a decade as a civilian investigator with Kent Police, and then for Kent County Council managing aspects of the road network. He is currently working in recruitment. He was initiated into the Orange Order in February 2004, the Royal Black Institution in 2006 and the Apprentice Boys of Derry in 2004. He is a member of the Royal Society of St George and of UKIP. He was a former council candidate for the Conservative Party, and a former chairman of the Young Conservatives in the Cities of London & Westminster Conservative Association. Currently he is London District Secretary for the Orange Order and South of England Deputy Master for the Royal Black Institution, and is also Kent Branch Club Secretary for the Apprentice Boys of Derry. His main interests are Badminton, Cricket, history, politics, genealogy, classical music and creative writing. Through the Orange Order he developed a keen interest in Lord Carson, regarded as the Father of Northern Ireland, and appeared on the BBC’s Mastermind quiz programme in 2013, with the life of Lord Carson being his specialist subject.
In his talk James Lockwood will tell something about the life and career of Lord Carson, looking at his personality, ancestry, and interesting points of his legal career, the Home Rule v Unionist struggle (particularly in the 1892-1914 period), the Ulster Crisis, the Constitutional Settlements proposed around 1919 (including one to federalise the whole UK), and the fate of the Stormont settlement. He will also be telling a little about his Mastermind experience!
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The Swinton Circle is delighted to announce that its book-selling arm – Swinton Books – is now fully up and running, with an Amazon Seller’s Profile upon which all books available are advertised now having been established. For more details please e-mail swintonbooks@gmail.com.
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Membership fees and donations to the Swinton Circle can be made via PayPal on the organisation’s web-site home page at www.swintoncircle.co.uk - simply 'click' on the line "PayPal = the safer, easier way to pay online" at the bottom of the home page; if the error message "This content cannot be displayed in a Frame" appears then simply 'click' on the line "Open this Content in a New Window".
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain will be holding its annual Canada Day event early next moth, and the details are as follows :-
Date : Wednesday 1st July 2015
Time : 18.00 hrs onwards
Venue : St.Botolph’s Hall, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TL
This reception will feature interesting Canadian speakers and Canadian-orientated items, and letters of solidarity with the Canadian people to be sent to the Canadian Prime Minister and the High Commissioner of Canada will be circulated for signing.
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The revised date for New Britain’s United Kingdom Day event is Monday 27th July. Full details about this activity will be included in next month’s SCN.
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WORLD CUP WILLIES REVISITED
In the run-up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup we ran a series of monthly items entitled “World Cup Willies”, which demonstrated why we thought that the “new” South Africa was totally unsuited to stage one of the world’s premier sporting tournaments. We reported on the incomplete infrastructure for this tournament, the labour strikes which were causing massive disruptions, the traffic chaos causing an escalating number of accidents, the fact that far fewer overseas supporters would be attending than were originally expected, the breakdown of law and order in other parts of he country as all Police manpower was concentrated in the cities where matches were to be played, and the assaults, robberies and murders – yes murders – which were experienced by visiting players, officials and supporters.
We thought that in view of all these appalling problems resulting from this ill-judged tournament which were apparent at the time that nothing even more damning could ever come to light – but we were wrong! The recent exposure of chronic corruption within FIFA at the highest levels has revealed that the South African FA (or certain officials therein) arranged for a bribe of US$10 Million to be paid to certain national FIFA representatives, particularly those from CONCACAF, to vote for South Africa to stage the 2010 World Cup. In other words South Africa only ever became host of the 2010 tournament through bribery and corruption.
In view of both the disasters surrounding the staging of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and the subsequent revelations about the bribery and corruption which ensured that it was held in the “new” South Africa, we trust that never again will a major global sporting event be staged in this totally unfit country – and that applies especially to the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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LATEST REPORT FROM THE ZIMBABWE CONSERVATION TASK FORCE
We have recently received the following important report from the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force :-
“With regard to the baby elephants which have been captured in Hwange National Park for intended export to China, we would appeal to the Zimbabwean government to do the right thing and release these elephants into a rehabilitation sanctuary so that they can be released back into the wild. This would prove to the world that Zimbabwe is serious about conservation. We are asking this on behalf of thousands of animal lovers around the world.
“In addition to this, Zimbabwe would earn a lot of respect if the stock pile of 72 tons of elephant tusks and 5 tons of rhino horn were incinerated in a public area in front of conservationists and wildlife enthusiasts. This is what Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia have done. All the wildlife ambassadors around the world should be invited to watch this and that will have a huge impact on Zimbabwe's reputation as true leaders in the conservation world.
“The local people living around the National Parks and wildlife areas would benefit from this. They could be employed by National Parks to run anti-poaching patrols and they could receive a percentage of the money earned by tourism. This would greatly help the unemployment problem in Zimbabwe. If these people are earning money by keeping the animals alive, they would not be so keen to kill them. There would be massive benefits for a number of industries. The local people could sell their beautiful art works and sculptures and they could even start safari businesses, allowing foreign visitors to see how they live. The hotels, restaurants, transport companies and airlines would also benefit from an influx of tourists.
“With regard to elephants destroying people's crops, there are ways of preventing that chilli plants could be planted around the perimeter of the crops and that would discourage elephants from going in and eating the crops.”
The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force relies solely on public donations. Any donation can help to preserve the wildlife in Zimbabwe. If you would like to assist please contact the ZCTF at: galorand@mweb.co.zw
The ZCTF web-site can be accessed at: www.zctfofficialsite.org.
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LATEST NEWS CONCERNING CLIVE DERBY-LEWIS
We have recently heard the rumour that a South African court has ruled that Clive Derby-Lewis must be released on bail, but that the powers-that-be had been given until Friday 5th June to present arguments in opposition to this ruling. In spite of the fact that this date has now passed we have alas heard nothing further to confirm or refute that he has now actually been released. The latest report which we have received from his wife Gaye reads as follows however :-
“You have probably all heard that Clive’s application for Medical Parole was refused by the Minister of Correctional Services. Since he was convicted and sentenced to death in 1993, I’m afraid we’ve not won a single battle within this country’s so-called justice system.
“He was refused amnesty in the late nineties on the most spurious of grounds, while they gave amnesty to every Tom, Dick and Harry. I collected information on who they gave amnesty to, and it makes laughable reading! The chairman of Clive’s amnesty committee of five was a dyed in the wool communist, so impartiality was out of the question. In any event, after the 1993 Hani incident, more than 30 top ANC/SACP’s, liberals and a few NP’s including de Klerk declared publicly that Clive would ‘never get out’, and they have stuck to their guns. They are in power and they can use the system the way they want.
“To cut a long story short, Clive was eligible for parole, to be released in October 2008. The Parole Board recommended this parole, but the minister refused it. It was refused three times after that, each time the minister (either a communist or an ANC bigwig) used and manipulated the law to suit his political agenda. Anyone who really knows South Africa will know how easily this can be done – look at how Zuma gets away with not being tried for the 683 charges of fraud about which he’s supposed to appear in court. The National Prosecuting Authority is compromised, as we all know.
“Clive was stabbed twice in jail. Glass from one of the stabbings is still in his lung and it cannot be operated upon. As well, he nearly lost his leg with a gangrene that developed because there was no medical attention in jail. He was also diagnosed with cancer – lung cancer and prostate cancer - and heart failure, high blood pressure and hypertension .
“He is receiving chemo and radiation. He is bearing up well.
“The Medical Parole Advisory Board, a board setup by the Department of Correctional Services and consisting of seventeen independent doctors and specialists, recommended to the minister that Clive be released on medical parole. The minister completely ignored the advice of his own Medical Experts. He is not a medical doctor.
“The minister refused medical parole on three grounds which I won’t go into here. Let it be said they were all spurious. I can’t tell you in detail because it actually makes me physically ill to go through all of this again. But each reason was a reason thrown into the pot to give the minister an excuse to refuse and of course to keep Clive in jail longer. However laughable the reasons for refusal, the onus was thus upon us to take this ridiculous decision to court which takes thousands of Rands and a lot of time and effort.
We get the affidavit and annexures together with the guidance of our advocate and attorney. This documentation consists of thousands of pages, multiplied by eight to give copies to all the “interested parties” which include the SA Communist Party. We ask the court to review the minister’s decision. The minister’s mala fides, bias and vindictiveness were so bad that we had to ask the court to make the decision, not go back to the minister. I can’t possibly say in this email what I think of the whole bloody lot of them – suffice it to say they are a curse on this country, a plague which this country will never get rid of. We warned the people time and time again, but nobody was listening.
“I’m sending this to you with a heavy heart. I’m fed up with the whole mess and the weakness of the whites. Who would have thought they’d let go so easily?
“Anyway, I’ll keep you posted. We hope things will take a turn for the better when our urgent application comes before a judge. But then we ask: what judge? He’s been before the judges before!”
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BBC2 SERIES ON NAPOLEON
BBC2 are currently broadcasting a most informative series about the life and career of Napoleon Bonaparte, which has been written and presented by the acclaimed historian Andrew Roberts, who of course spoke at the Springbok Club’s 2001 UDI Day Dinner. This series, which is screened on Wednesdays at 21.00 hrs, is well worth watching, and certainly sheds new light on the celebrated French Emperor.
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BOOK OFFERS
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The narrative gives the reader an overview of the history of the White man in southern Africa with detailed emphasis on the Rhodesian story through the life and times of PK van der Byl, one of the major players in a political drama that ended in the accession to power of Robert Mugabe under the auspices of the British government. By his very nature PK was controversial and confrontational. This account is likely to give offence to some because it portrays him as bluntly as he was in real life. Much can be contested about PK van der Byl but few will dispute he was an extremely colourful character with a devilish sense of humour. This memoir covers his life with a full flourish while doing nothing to detract from the seriousness of the international political and military conflict in which he was engaged. The reader will glean new information on a highly controversial subject and emerge with a more sympathetic understanding of what PK van der Byl and his colleagues did and strove for. The human tragedy that has followed the removal from power of Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Front party will almost certainly force the reader to deal with some uncomfortable conclusions, of value to anyone sincere about grappling with the volatile and deeply troubling challenges that confront all Africans today.
This book and others of interest can be purchased from 30 Degrees South via their web-site: www.30degreessouth.co.za
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"BLUE WATCH" by Gwyn Fford-Osborne
Rhodesia, in 1975 and a bloody vicious civil war is at its height. A war between the White minority supported by the Black majority and the ZAPU and ZANU terrorist groups, supported by Zambia and Mozambique. Kensington, a small town in the farming belt has been the subject of several terrorist attacks but with only a small police force for defence, the local T.A. unit having been called up for service on the Zambia border the situation appears grim. Until Iffor Meredith turns up on a pilgrimage to meet up with his wife and son of his old army buddy, recently murdered by terrorists. A deadly ambush on the "Dix" family and his escape from a land mine attack makes Iffor determined to offer resistance of some form or other to the terrorists. His application to join the Rhodesian Army has been accepted and he sets about forming a small militia. With all the fit men already on call up, who can he recruit from. Then he's invited to a darts match at the Moth Club and meets up with the remnants of the town's Fire Brigade, the men considered too old for call up. Blue Watch.
Available from: www.diadembooks.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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DVD available along with other premium titles of historical interest from Msasa Enterprises. Visit www.rhodesianvideos.co.za or write to msasasa@iafrica.com for more information. UK contact telephone: 07415 753 340.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.199 – Mr. RICKY ALLAN of Durban.
Ricky Allan was a stalwart of the Durban Branch of the Rangers F.C. Supporters Association, and the father of John Allan who played international Rugby Union as hooker both for Scotland and for South Africa. As was mentioned in the February 2014 edition of the SCN, however, he was also the grandfather of Tommaso Allan (the son of Ricky’s younger son William “Billy” Allan) who has recently played at fly-half for Italy. Although Ricky Allan lived in Durban during the 1980s he hailed from Glasgow, but as his son John subsequently played for Edinburgh Academicals and his son Billy has evidently settled in Italy, it would be very interesting to learn where Ricky himself is living now.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
As mentioned in the Springbok Club section, the organization staged a trip to Southend-on-Sea last month, where members and supporters visited an art exhibition featuring some of the paintings of Roger Alsop. This proved a most enjoyable day out, and Roger Alsop’s pictures were very impressive. He has his own web-site where a number of his works are displayed, and this can be accessed at :-
http://www.rogeralsop-art.co.uk/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PUTTING IT IN BLACK AND WHITE
Sir,
Thanks for this insightful, well-written newsletter [the March edition of the SCN – Ed.].
I’d love to respond to quite a few points raised here, but will confine my response to one only. You postulated :-
“We honestly can’t make out why it is only these farm murders which receive so much attention, when quite clearly a far greater number of these genocidal atrocities take place in urban inner-city areas.”
Most farmers are Afrikaners, of which a significant minority are of White English ancestry especially in Natal. Most inner city victims are Whites of English or Afrikaner ethnicity. It seems in today’s twisted, contorted world of political correctness it’s permissible to call attention to the persecution of a particular ethnicity (Afrikaners) but absolutely verboten to point out that a member of the WHITE race is victim to Black genocidal racism.
The liberal leftist narrative one is strictly forbidden from deviating is thus: White = bad, Black = good. The mortal sins of racism and bigotry are the exclusive domain of Whites. Victimhood of the aforesaid is thus exclusively non-White. Ergo, Blacks cannot be guilty of racism and Whites cannot be victim to it. Should a White person dare to point out Black malfeasance, he is automatically guilty of racism as any attempt to do so is automatically “borne from a subconscious desire to make Blacks look bad”.
On the flipside, the United Nations have various sub-organisations which promote and protect the rights of ethnic minorities, as long as such ethnicities are identified through language, cultural heritage and geographical considerations. As such, you will find many veteran activists such as the Dutch-based Adriana Stuijt or local Dr Dan Roodt of PRAAG beating the ethnic drum but fearfully shying away from the racial one.
It’s abundantly clear that South African Whites of all ethnicities are being victimised especially due to their skin colour. The vast majority of Black on White crimes can be categorised as racist hate crimes, due to the excessive violence and extreme torture employed, the manner in which victims are identified and subsequently persecuted. In more than 90% of cases, Black perpetrators make no effort to hide their primary motives – they openly use racist hate speech and where entire families are murdered, will routinely daub anti-White slogans on walls using their victim’s blood.
Yours etc.,
“The Uhuru Guru”, Lancashire, U.K.
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WE ARE THE SACRIFICE ……
Sir,
I know the Springbok Club is not only concerned with Southern Africa but has, thanks to you, given a right leaning viewpoint on other places of interest to us and those who think like us. I often point out the lack of gumption in White South Africans. At least the Rhodesians put up a valiant struggle, only to be betrayed by Conservative politicians - as was Ulster - and by their White South African cousins, particularly that creep John Vorster.
Yours etc.,
“Loyalist”, Glasgow, U.K..
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FICTION WRITER
Sir,
I was angry to read the letter entitled “Angels and Demons” from a Mr. Dan Brown [May SCN – Ed.] which contained one misleading lie and another offensive implication concerning the actions of British forces during the Anglo-Boer War.
1) Kitchener did NOT establish “concentration camps” in South Africa. Concentration camps were established by the Nazis in Germany and eastern Europe prior to and during the Second World War in order exterminate Jews, Gypsies and other minorities. Kitchener established DETENTION camps in South Africa, and only AFTER the war was effectively over following the capture of Pretoria in June 1900. They were established in order to DETAIN the families of the Boer “bitter-enders” who refused to accept that they had lost the war and wished to prolong the pain and suffering on both sides by adopting “hit and run” guerilla tactics, retreating to their farmsteads after each isolated attack on British troops where their families provided food and protection for them. To compare the totally justifiable military tactic of establishing DETENTION camps in order to end hostilities as early as possible with the evil CONCENTRATION camps of the Nazis is a monstrous lie!
2) The implication that “28,000 Boers …perished” in the detention camps as deliberate acts of murder is an outrageous and unsubstantiated smear! Hygiene knowledge and standards at the end of the 19th century were nowhere near as advanced as they became even 50 years later. Diseases broke out in the camps and thousands (British troops as well as detainees!) died as a result of the lack of effective hygiene standards – NOT as deliberate acts of murder!
After the Treaty of Vereeniging of 1902 the vast majority of Afrikaners accepted the most generous peace terms which they were offered – particularly those great Afrikaner leaders Louis Botha and Jan Smuts. As a result the great success story which was the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910 which lasted for the next increasingly happy and prosperous 50 years, during which time Afrikaners and British-South Africans mainly lived side by side as brothers in a united land. It was only after the National Party government started to kow-tow to the ANC terrorists that the almost century-old and otherwise forgotten animosities were re-activated, mainly through the NP-controlled SABC and its joke AWB puppet organization. By trying to revive this animosity himself Mr. Brown is only playing the ANC’s game of further dividing White man from White man.
Yours etc.,
“South African Observer”, Durban, Natal, South Africa
[ This letter reflects the views of several other communications which we have received criticizing Mr.Dan Brown’s comments, and indeed criticizing us for publishing them. Mr.Brown himself remains an enigma to us however. He first made contact in November of last year stating that he wished to become involved with the Lancashire Branch of the Springbok Club and furthermore wished to make a donation (which significantly never materialized). After placing him on the SCN circulation list we received a most unexpected e-mail from him containing the controversial comments which have caused so much criticism, which we decided to publish in the interests of free speech. Almost immediately after publishing them, however, we received a further e-mail from him asking to “unsubscribe” from the SCN. His motivation and agenda remains a complete mystery to us therefore. Does anyone know any more about him? – Ed.]
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ROGUES GALLERY
We have recently learnt from a reliable source that the notorious Arthur Kemp (see SCNs passim) has relocated to Montana in the United States. We note also that his blogspot now hasn’t been updated for 11 months, so it would seem therefore that his public and political life is at an end.
It is however not our intention to warn the people of Montana about the odious nature of the liar, traitor, devious double-agent, betrayer of friends and circulator of fake pornographic images, as we hope that he will never again return to either South Africa or the UK to cause any more trouble, but will simply end his miserable life in rural Rocky Mountain obscurity.
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See you again next month!
June 2015 edition
In 1973 an apocalyptic novel was published in France entitled The Camp of Saints, written by Jean Raspail. The basic synopsis of this novel centred upon a mass co-ordinated invasion of France, and indeed Europe as a whole, by millions of third world minions. This novel was widely criticized at the time as being unrealistic and unbelievable – but now, some forty years later, it is coming true, as masses of poverty-stricken Africans and Arabs attempt to cross the Mediterranean in order to encamp themselves in Europe!
Make no bones about it, these “boat people” are not refugees – they are invaders. Just because they don’t carry weapons doesn’t mean to say that their aim isn’t the same as that of previous Islamic invaders of Europe, such as the Moors and the Ottomans. Their aim is to conquer and supplant the indigenous population of Europe, and to impose their own repressive religion upon the continent.
Recently we read a most devastating article in a publication entitled Vanishing England (No.10 – 20.2.2015) which revealed that the current “boat people” migration across the Mediterranean was all part of a deliberate plan by the Islamic Caliphate not only to invade Europe, but more specifically to seize Rome. Ever since an earlier Caliphate seized Constantinople in 1453, the article went on to illustrate, it has been the aim of Muslims to capture that other leading Christian city of Europe – Rome. The current Caliph, Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi (the spiritual head of ISIS/ISIL in northern Syria and Iraq) is furthermore on record as stating on 13th November 2014 “The Jihadists will continue their advance until, by God’s will, they reach Rome” [English translation from original Arabic]. Now of course we know that most of our readers will not have much time for the theological position and global power of the Vatican, but it must be accepted that their hierarchy is basically European, and they are therefore infinitely preferable to any Arabic Muslim theocrats who aim to take their place.
Perhaps the most frightening aspect in the storyline of The Camp of Saints was the manner in which so many indigenous Europeans not only passively accepted the third world invasion of their homelands, but in many cases even positively welcomed them! Again we see sickening parallels taking place in real-life today. Instead of immediately transporting all the “boat people” rescued from the Mediterranean back to the countries from which they embarked (Libya, and to a lesser extent Syria), the Italian and other EU authorities incredibly transport them on to the lands which they intended to reach, and unbelievably allow them to stay there! But the extent of assistance given to the Islamic invasion by the liberal/leftist forces in Europe actually goes even further than this. The demonstrations organized by the liberal/leftist “rent-a-mobs” against Western interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya have intimidated Western leaders into withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan far too early, not taking any necessary military action in Syria, and not putting any “boots on the ground” in Libya following the overthrow of an earlier would-be Caliph – Gadaffi. Had Western leaders not bowed to the self-hating demands of the liberal/left protestors then it follows that, with Western forces in control, there would not have been any power-vacuum in Iraq, Syria and Libya, and thereby no opportunity for the “boat people” to launch their invasion ventures from these countries.
Alas however it is not only the overt liberals and leftists who have been guilty of complicity with the invasion. Many self-styled right-wing and/or patriotic leaders – most notably Mr. Nigel Farage, the current leader of UKIP (as we pointed out in the May edition of the SCN) - have openly sided with the “rent-a-mob” pro-Islamic fellow-travellers by criticizing the limited Western intervention in Libya and opposing similar military action in Syria. Such incredible stances adopted by so-called anti-immigration leaders have been at best so naïve that the proponents forfeit all right to be taken seriously, or else they demonstrate a hypocrisy which is beyond belief. Needless to say, we view such hypocritical pseudo-patriots with even more contempt than we view the more obvious liberal/left!
But what needs to be done to stop the Islamic invasion and to defeat the Caliphate’s aim of conquering Europe? First defence spending in all Western countries must immediately be increased substantially, and then Western forces (and by Western we include Russia) must be swiftly and effectively deployed in the countries most implicated (Syria, Iraq and Libya) to seek out and destroy ISIS/ISIL, and then to occupy the coastal and border areas in order to prevent any further migration attempts into Europe. Once these military aims have been accomplished then a second wave of intervention from the great European nation-states must be enacted, but this time in the form of new colonial administrators who can re-establish order and good governance. Once this has been done then it should be relatively easy to repatriate all non-Europeans currently living on the European continent back to their lands of ethnic origin. Finance to accomplish these aims could come in part by abolishing all overseas aid budgets – after all eradicating the causes of poverty and establishing effective and non-corrupt administration is surely the best form of foreign aid which we can possibly give to the ordinary citizens of these third world countries!
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
The Springbok Club proved that it was fully back on the road again after the difficulties of earlier this year by staging a successful and most enjoyable trip to Southend-on-Sea last month, where inter alia they were able to view an art exhibition being staged by Mr. Roger Alsop at the town’s central library.
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The Springbok Club aims to give its full support to New Britain’s forthcoming Canada Day event (see New Britain News column) in order to show its commitment to Commonwealth solidarity. In July the Springbok Club will be holding its annual Rhodes and Founders celebration meeting which will feature a most interesting guest speaker, and in August the organization will be welcoming a highly respected visiting guest speaker from South Africa. In September the Springbok Club has again been invited to participate in the annual “Raising of the Flag” ceremony in Norfolk, and the Kent Branch of the organization is aiming to hold an informal braai later during the year.
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SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
The Swinton Circle’s Spring Buffet held last month proved a great success. It was good to see a number of old faces present again for the first time for several years, as well as the presence of several new supporters. The guest speaker, Mr. John Petley, gave a highly enthralling speech in which as well as recounting some of his experiences whilst working for three years at the EU Parliament in Brussels, also told something of his opinions about the current state of the Withdrawalist movement (a term which he prefers to EuroSceptic) in the UK today. In spite of all the problems currently engulfing UKIP he was optimistic about the eventual triumph of the Withdrawalist movement as a whole, but warned everyone about the potential problems which could be encountered during the forthcoming In/Out Referendum campaign, though he also explained how he thought these could be overcome. The new venue used for this function turned out to be first-class, and the standard of buffet snacks provided proved to be superlative.
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In order to mark the forthcoming United Kingdom Day the Swinton Circle has decided to make its June meeting an early United Kingdom Day event – and the theme couldn’t be more appropriate! The details are as follows :-
Date : Thursday 18th June 2015
Time : 18.30 hrs for 19.00 hrs.
Venue : The MORPETH ARMS (the upstairs “Spying Room”), 58 Millbank, London SW1P 4RW. (Nearest tube station: Pimlico)
Guest Speaker : Mr. JAMES LOCKWOOD LL.B., A.K.C.
- who will be speaking about the life and career of Lord Carson (Sir Edward Carson).
James Lockwood was born at Pembury and raised at Tunbridge Wells in Kent. He read Law at King's College, London. After graduating he worked for almost a decade as a civilian investigator with Kent Police, and then for Kent County Council managing aspects of the road network. He is currently working in recruitment. He was initiated into the Orange Order in February 2004, the Royal Black Institution in 2006 and the Apprentice Boys of Derry in 2004. He is a member of the Royal Society of St George and of UKIP. He was a former council candidate for the Conservative Party, and a former chairman of the Young Conservatives in the Cities of London & Westminster Conservative Association. Currently he is London District Secretary for the Orange Order and South of England Deputy Master for the Royal Black Institution, and is also Kent Branch Club Secretary for the Apprentice Boys of Derry. His main interests are Badminton, Cricket, history, politics, genealogy, classical music and creative writing. Through the Orange Order he developed a keen interest in Lord Carson, regarded as the Father of Northern Ireland, and appeared on the BBC’s Mastermind quiz programme in 2013, with the life of Lord Carson being his specialist subject.
In his talk James Lockwood will tell something about the life and career of Lord Carson, looking at his personality, ancestry, and interesting points of his legal career, the Home Rule v Unionist struggle (particularly in the 1892-1914 period), the Ulster Crisis, the Constitutional Settlements proposed around 1919 (including one to federalise the whole UK), and the fate of the Stormont settlement. He will also be telling a little about his Mastermind experience!
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The Swinton Circle is delighted to announce that its book-selling arm – Swinton Books – is now fully up and running, with an Amazon Seller’s Profile upon which all books available are advertised now having been established. For more details please e-mail swintonbooks@gmail.com.
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain will be holding its annual Canada Day event early next moth, and the details are as follows :-
Date : Wednesday 1st July 2015
Time : 18.00 hrs onwards
Venue : St.Botolph’s Hall, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TL
This reception will feature interesting Canadian speakers and Canadian-orientated items, and letters of solidarity with the Canadian people to be sent to the Canadian Prime Minister and the High Commissioner of Canada will be circulated for signing.
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The revised date for New Britain’s United Kingdom Day event is Monday 27th July. Full details about this activity will be included in next month’s SCN.
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WORLD CUP WILLIES REVISITED
In the run-up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup we ran a series of monthly items entitled “World Cup Willies”, which demonstrated why we thought that the “new” South Africa was totally unsuited to stage one of the world’s premier sporting tournaments. We reported on the incomplete infrastructure for this tournament, the labour strikes which were causing massive disruptions, the traffic chaos causing an escalating number of accidents, the fact that far fewer overseas supporters would be attending than were originally expected, the breakdown of law and order in other parts of he country as all Police manpower was concentrated in the cities where matches were to be played, and the assaults, robberies and murders – yes murders – which were experienced by visiting players, officials and supporters.
We thought that in view of all these appalling problems resulting from this ill-judged tournament which were apparent at the time that nothing even more damning could ever come to light – but we were wrong! The recent exposure of chronic corruption within FIFA at the highest levels has revealed that the South African FA (or certain officials therein) arranged for a bribe of US$10 Million to be paid to certain national FIFA representatives, particularly those from CONCACAF, to vote for South Africa to stage the 2010 World Cup. In other words South Africa only ever became host of the 2010 tournament through bribery and corruption.
In view of both the disasters surrounding the staging of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and the subsequent revelations about the bribery and corruption which ensured that it was held in the “new” South Africa, we trust that never again will a major global sporting event be staged in this totally unfit country – and that applies especially to the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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LATEST REPORT FROM THE ZIMBABWE CONSERVATION TASK FORCE
We have recently received the following important report from the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force :-
“With regard to the baby elephants which have been captured in Hwange National Park for intended export to China, we would appeal to the Zimbabwean government to do the right thing and release these elephants into a rehabilitation sanctuary so that they can be released back into the wild. This would prove to the world that Zimbabwe is serious about conservation. We are asking this on behalf of thousands of animal lovers around the world.
“In addition to this, Zimbabwe would earn a lot of respect if the stock pile of 72 tons of elephant tusks and 5 tons of rhino horn were incinerated in a public area in front of conservationists and wildlife enthusiasts. This is what Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia have done. All the wildlife ambassadors around the world should be invited to watch this and that will have a huge impact on Zimbabwe's reputation as true leaders in the conservation world.
“The local people living around the National Parks and wildlife areas would benefit from this. They could be employed by National Parks to run anti-poaching patrols and they could receive a percentage of the money earned by tourism. This would greatly help the unemployment problem in Zimbabwe. If these people are earning money by keeping the animals alive, they would not be so keen to kill them. There would be massive benefits for a number of industries. The local people could sell their beautiful art works and sculptures and they could even start safari businesses, allowing foreign visitors to see how they live. The hotels, restaurants, transport companies and airlines would also benefit from an influx of tourists.
“With regard to elephants destroying people's crops, there are ways of preventing that chilli plants could be planted around the perimeter of the crops and that would discourage elephants from going in and eating the crops.”
The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force relies solely on public donations. Any donation can help to preserve the wildlife in Zimbabwe. If you would like to assist please contact the ZCTF at: galorand@mweb.co.zw
The ZCTF web-site can be accessed at: www.zctfofficialsite.org.
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LATEST NEWS CONCERNING CLIVE DERBY-LEWIS
We have recently heard the rumour that a South African court has ruled that Clive Derby-Lewis must be released on bail, but that the powers-that-be had been given until Friday 5th June to present arguments in opposition to this ruling. In spite of the fact that this date has now passed we have alas heard nothing further to confirm or refute that he has now actually been released. The latest report which we have received from his wife Gaye reads as follows however :-
“You have probably all heard that Clive’s application for Medical Parole was refused by the Minister of Correctional Services. Since he was convicted and sentenced to death in 1993, I’m afraid we’ve not won a single battle within this country’s so-called justice system.
“He was refused amnesty in the late nineties on the most spurious of grounds, while they gave amnesty to every Tom, Dick and Harry. I collected information on who they gave amnesty to, and it makes laughable reading! The chairman of Clive’s amnesty committee of five was a dyed in the wool communist, so impartiality was out of the question. In any event, after the 1993 Hani incident, more than 30 top ANC/SACP’s, liberals and a few NP’s including de Klerk declared publicly that Clive would ‘never get out’, and they have stuck to their guns. They are in power and they can use the system the way they want.
“To cut a long story short, Clive was eligible for parole, to be released in October 2008. The Parole Board recommended this parole, but the minister refused it. It was refused three times after that, each time the minister (either a communist or an ANC bigwig) used and manipulated the law to suit his political agenda. Anyone who really knows South Africa will know how easily this can be done – look at how Zuma gets away with not being tried for the 683 charges of fraud about which he’s supposed to appear in court. The National Prosecuting Authority is compromised, as we all know.
“Clive was stabbed twice in jail. Glass from one of the stabbings is still in his lung and it cannot be operated upon. As well, he nearly lost his leg with a gangrene that developed because there was no medical attention in jail. He was also diagnosed with cancer – lung cancer and prostate cancer - and heart failure, high blood pressure and hypertension .
“He is receiving chemo and radiation. He is bearing up well.
“The Medical Parole Advisory Board, a board setup by the Department of Correctional Services and consisting of seventeen independent doctors and specialists, recommended to the minister that Clive be released on medical parole. The minister completely ignored the advice of his own Medical Experts. He is not a medical doctor.
“The minister refused medical parole on three grounds which I won’t go into here. Let it be said they were all spurious. I can’t tell you in detail because it actually makes me physically ill to go through all of this again. But each reason was a reason thrown into the pot to give the minister an excuse to refuse and of course to keep Clive in jail longer. However laughable the reasons for refusal, the onus was thus upon us to take this ridiculous decision to court which takes thousands of Rands and a lot of time and effort.
We get the affidavit and annexures together with the guidance of our advocate and attorney. This documentation consists of thousands of pages, multiplied by eight to give copies to all the “interested parties” which include the SA Communist Party. We ask the court to review the minister’s decision. The minister’s mala fides, bias and vindictiveness were so bad that we had to ask the court to make the decision, not go back to the minister. I can’t possibly say in this email what I think of the whole bloody lot of them – suffice it to say they are a curse on this country, a plague which this country will never get rid of. We warned the people time and time again, but nobody was listening.
“I’m sending this to you with a heavy heart. I’m fed up with the whole mess and the weakness of the whites. Who would have thought they’d let go so easily?
“Anyway, I’ll keep you posted. We hope things will take a turn for the better when our urgent application comes before a judge. But then we ask: what judge? He’s been before the judges before!”
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BBC2 SERIES ON NAPOLEON
BBC2 are currently broadcasting a most informative series about the life and career of Napoleon Bonaparte, which has been written and presented by the acclaimed historian Andrew Roberts, who of course spoke at the Springbok Club’s 2001 UDI Day Dinner. This series, which is screened on Wednesdays at 21.00 hrs, is well worth watching, and certainly sheds new light on the celebrated French Emperor.
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BOOK OFFERS
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The narrative gives the reader an overview of the history of the White man in southern Africa with detailed emphasis on the Rhodesian story through the life and times of PK van der Byl, one of the major players in a political drama that ended in the accession to power of Robert Mugabe under the auspices of the British government. By his very nature PK was controversial and confrontational. This account is likely to give offence to some because it portrays him as bluntly as he was in real life. Much can be contested about PK van der Byl but few will dispute he was an extremely colourful character with a devilish sense of humour. This memoir covers his life with a full flourish while doing nothing to detract from the seriousness of the international political and military conflict in which he was engaged. The reader will glean new information on a highly controversial subject and emerge with a more sympathetic understanding of what PK van der Byl and his colleagues did and strove for. The human tragedy that has followed the removal from power of Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Front party will almost certainly force the reader to deal with some uncomfortable conclusions, of value to anyone sincere about grappling with the volatile and deeply troubling challenges that confront all Africans today.
This book and others of interest can be purchased from 30 Degrees South via their web-site: www.30degreessouth.co.za
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"BLUE WATCH" by Gwyn Fford-Osborne
Rhodesia, in 1975 and a bloody vicious civil war is at its height. A war between the White minority supported by the Black majority and the ZAPU and ZANU terrorist groups, supported by Zambia and Mozambique. Kensington, a small town in the farming belt has been the subject of several terrorist attacks but with only a small police force for defence, the local T.A. unit having been called up for service on the Zambia border the situation appears grim. Until Iffor Meredith turns up on a pilgrimage to meet up with his wife and son of his old army buddy, recently murdered by terrorists. A deadly ambush on the "Dix" family and his escape from a land mine attack makes Iffor determined to offer resistance of some form or other to the terrorists. His application to join the Rhodesian Army has been accepted and he sets about forming a small militia. With all the fit men already on call up, who can he recruit from. Then he's invited to a darts match at the Moth Club and meets up with the remnants of the town's Fire Brigade, the men considered too old for call up. Blue Watch.
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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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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.199 – Mr. RICKY ALLAN of Durban.
Ricky Allan was a stalwart of the Durban Branch of the Rangers F.C. Supporters Association, and the father of John Allan who played international Rugby Union as hooker both for Scotland and for South Africa. As was mentioned in the February 2014 edition of the SCN, however, he was also the grandfather of Tommaso Allan (the son of Ricky’s younger son William “Billy” Allan) who has recently played at fly-half for Italy. Although Ricky Allan lived in Durban during the 1980s he hailed from Glasgow, but as his son John subsequently played for Edinburgh Academicals and his son Billy has evidently settled in Italy, it would be very interesting to learn where Ricky himself is living now.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
As mentioned in the Springbok Club section, the organization staged a trip to Southend-on-Sea last month, where members and supporters visited an art exhibition featuring some of the paintings of Roger Alsop. This proved a most enjoyable day out, and Roger Alsop’s pictures were very impressive. He has his own web-site where a number of his works are displayed, and this can be accessed at :-
http://www.rogeralsop-art.co.uk/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PUTTING IT IN BLACK AND WHITE
Sir,
Thanks for this insightful, well-written newsletter [the March edition of the SCN – Ed.].
I’d love to respond to quite a few points raised here, but will confine my response to one only. You postulated :-
“We honestly can’t make out why it is only these farm murders which receive so much attention, when quite clearly a far greater number of these genocidal atrocities take place in urban inner-city areas.”
Most farmers are Afrikaners, of which a significant minority are of White English ancestry especially in Natal. Most inner city victims are Whites of English or Afrikaner ethnicity. It seems in today’s twisted, contorted world of political correctness it’s permissible to call attention to the persecution of a particular ethnicity (Afrikaners) but absolutely verboten to point out that a member of the WHITE race is victim to Black genocidal racism.
The liberal leftist narrative one is strictly forbidden from deviating is thus: White = bad, Black = good. The mortal sins of racism and bigotry are the exclusive domain of Whites. Victimhood of the aforesaid is thus exclusively non-White. Ergo, Blacks cannot be guilty of racism and Whites cannot be victim to it. Should a White person dare to point out Black malfeasance, he is automatically guilty of racism as any attempt to do so is automatically “borne from a subconscious desire to make Blacks look bad”.
On the flipside, the United Nations have various sub-organisations which promote and protect the rights of ethnic minorities, as long as such ethnicities are identified through language, cultural heritage and geographical considerations. As such, you will find many veteran activists such as the Dutch-based Adriana Stuijt or local Dr Dan Roodt of PRAAG beating the ethnic drum but fearfully shying away from the racial one.
It’s abundantly clear that South African Whites of all ethnicities are being victimised especially due to their skin colour. The vast majority of Black on White crimes can be categorised as racist hate crimes, due to the excessive violence and extreme torture employed, the manner in which victims are identified and subsequently persecuted. In more than 90% of cases, Black perpetrators make no effort to hide their primary motives – they openly use racist hate speech and where entire families are murdered, will routinely daub anti-White slogans on walls using their victim’s blood.
Yours etc.,
“The Uhuru Guru”, Lancashire, U.K.
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WE ARE THE SACRIFICE ……
Sir,
I know the Springbok Club is not only concerned with Southern Africa but has, thanks to you, given a right leaning viewpoint on other places of interest to us and those who think like us. I often point out the lack of gumption in White South Africans. At least the Rhodesians put up a valiant struggle, only to be betrayed by Conservative politicians - as was Ulster - and by their White South African cousins, particularly that creep John Vorster.
Yours etc.,
“Loyalist”, Glasgow, U.K..
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FICTION WRITER
Sir,
I was angry to read the letter entitled “Angels and Demons” from a Mr. Dan Brown [May SCN – Ed.] which contained one misleading lie and another offensive implication concerning the actions of British forces during the Anglo-Boer War.
1) Kitchener did NOT establish “concentration camps” in South Africa. Concentration camps were established by the Nazis in Germany and eastern Europe prior to and during the Second World War in order exterminate Jews, Gypsies and other minorities. Kitchener established DETENTION camps in South Africa, and only AFTER the war was effectively over following the capture of Pretoria in June 1900. They were established in order to DETAIN the families of the Boer “bitter-enders” who refused to accept that they had lost the war and wished to prolong the pain and suffering on both sides by adopting “hit and run” guerilla tactics, retreating to their farmsteads after each isolated attack on British troops where their families provided food and protection for them. To compare the totally justifiable military tactic of establishing DETENTION camps in order to end hostilities as early as possible with the evil CONCENTRATION camps of the Nazis is a monstrous lie!
2) The implication that “28,000 Boers …perished” in the detention camps as deliberate acts of murder is an outrageous and unsubstantiated smear! Hygiene knowledge and standards at the end of the 19th century were nowhere near as advanced as they became even 50 years later. Diseases broke out in the camps and thousands (British troops as well as detainees!) died as a result of the lack of effective hygiene standards – NOT as deliberate acts of murder!
After the Treaty of Vereeniging of 1902 the vast majority of Afrikaners accepted the most generous peace terms which they were offered – particularly those great Afrikaner leaders Louis Botha and Jan Smuts. As a result the great success story which was the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910 which lasted for the next increasingly happy and prosperous 50 years, during which time Afrikaners and British-South Africans mainly lived side by side as brothers in a united land. It was only after the National Party government started to kow-tow to the ANC terrorists that the almost century-old and otherwise forgotten animosities were re-activated, mainly through the NP-controlled SABC and its joke AWB puppet organization. By trying to revive this animosity himself Mr. Brown is only playing the ANC’s game of further dividing White man from White man.
Yours etc.,
“South African Observer”, Durban, Natal, South Africa
[ This letter reflects the views of several other communications which we have received criticizing Mr.Dan Brown’s comments, and indeed criticizing us for publishing them. Mr.Brown himself remains an enigma to us however. He first made contact in November of last year stating that he wished to become involved with the Lancashire Branch of the Springbok Club and furthermore wished to make a donation (which significantly never materialized). After placing him on the SCN circulation list we received a most unexpected e-mail from him containing the controversial comments which have caused so much criticism, which we decided to publish in the interests of free speech. Almost immediately after publishing them, however, we received a further e-mail from him asking to “unsubscribe” from the SCN. His motivation and agenda remains a complete mystery to us therefore. Does anyone know any more about him? – Ed.]
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ROGUES GALLERY
We have recently learnt from a reliable source that the notorious Arthur Kemp (see SCNs passim) has relocated to Montana in the United States. We note also that his blogspot now hasn’t been updated for 11 months, so it would seem therefore that his public and political life is at an end.
It is however not our intention to warn the people of Montana about the odious nature of the liar, traitor, devious double-agent, betrayer of friends and circulator of fake pornographic images, as we hope that he will never again return to either South Africa or the UK to cause any more trouble, but will simply end his miserable life in rural Rocky Mountain obscurity.
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Monday, 25 May 2015
May 2015 Edition.
SPRINGBOK CYBER NEWSLETTER
May 2015 edition
As we predicted, the British General Election produced some very interesting results, most of which tended to be most encouraging, but which also alas included an extremely disturbing development.
The overall result, which saw the Conservative Party returned to power with an overall majority, was highly significant – not only because for the first time in most people’s memories parties seemingly to the right of centre (Conservative and UKIP) out-voted parties to the left of centre, but also because it marked the near annihilation of the neo-Gladstonian LiberalDemocrat Party and a potentially fatal blow to Ed Miliband’s attempts to revert Labour to its socialist roots. Although we still have serious misgivings about David Cameron as Conservative leader, like former Labour leader Tony Blair before him the realities of power have clearly tempered his more liberal instincts and have moved him in a more realistic rightwards direction. Many of his subsequent cabinet appointments have furthermore happily re-enforced this impression
In Northern Ireland the results were even more encouraging, as they saw Unionist parties re-capturing two seats, one from SF/IRA itself and the other from their fellow-travellers of the Alliance Party, a party which as a result will hopefully soon be defunct. After the most worrying result of 2010 when Unionist and non-Unionist candidates tied with 9 seats each, this current result which saw a positive 11-7 split gives great reason for hope for the future. The “received wisdom” that “birthrate demographics” will eventually produce a Nationalist majority in Northern Island therefore seems to have been firmly disproved.
Although the results in England, Wales, and especially Northern Ireland were highly encouraging, those in Scotland, which saw the odious separatist SNP almost – but not completely – sweep the board, were extremely worrying. The reason for this sickening development is complex, but probably is a result of a combination of Cameron’s reprehensible decision to allow an “independence” referendum last year, the totally unattractive nature of Ed Miliband’s pro-socialist Labour leadership, and the fact that the Scottish Conservative Party had seen fit to appoint an openly lesbian as leader. The fact that the election in Wales, with its similar Keltic composition, went so radically different to that in Scotland – with even UKIP out-voting Plaid Cymru – is not only encouraging, but also clearly provides a clue, for only the second of the three reasons which we have advanced for the disaster in Scotland applies to Wales also. Quite obviously urgent action is therefore needed in Scotland (something which the Swinton Circle intends to play a leading role in helping), with the interesting suggestion being advanced that a Democratic Unionist Party of Scotland should be launched to act as a unifying force for all Scottish Unionists regardless of other ideological opinions.
This leaves the situation concerning UKIP. Although, with practically 4 million votes, UKIP has clearly established itself as the third force in UK politics, their success in winning only one seat and their clear decline since the County Council elections of 2013 and the EuroElections of last year, quite obviously shows that all is not well with the party. The problem, we firmly believe, lies at the top of the party, for at grassroots level their members are clearly good and sincere patriots. Incredibly we have heard that several UKIP leaders have described themselves as Gladstonians (no, we’re not making this up!), with some even going as far as to praise the Levellers, the Chartists and even today’s multi-racial society (again, we’re not making this up!). The situation concerning the seemingly immovable UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, is even more sinister however. We have commented in the SCN previously about rumours that Farage did not initially support the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics, and indeed openly canvassed for the Games to be awarded to Paris. Significantly we have received neither confirmation nor denial from Mr. Farage regarding these rumours. If this was the case then he of course forfeits all right to be considered an authentic patriotic British leader. But there has been another even more disturbing utterance which has indisputably come from Mr.Farage’s lips. During the election campaign he openly stated that he not only opposed Western military intervention in Syria to prevent the advance of the ISIS/ISIL terrorist vermin, but even opposed the successful Western military action in Libya to depose the tyrannical madman Gaddafi, whose support for global terrorism (including that of the IRA and ANC!) threatened us all! Farage’s appeasement towards Islamic expansionism is not only sickening in the extreme, but for someone who made his name by - rightly - opposing EU immigration into the UK now to be opposing necessary military action to prevent an even more insidious invasion threat from Islamic hordes demonstrates a hypocrisy which defies words.
The outcome of the 2015 General Election was greatly encouraging overall therefore, notwithstanding the disaster in Scotland. Urgent action is clearly needed in Scotland of course, although the examples from Wales, and probably even more relevantly from Northern Ireland, shows that salvation is still possible. As far as UKIP in concerned it is up to their majority sincere and authentically patriotic members to seize the initiative. Either they remove their hypocritical leaders and become an genuine and dynamic force in British politics, or else they will slide inevitably into oblivion.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
Happily we can report that the problems which beset the Springbok Club at the beginning of the year now seem to have been overcome, and the majority of Committee members have once again resumed their positions. There has however been a criticism of the Springbok Club’s current web-site, which it has been claimed isn’t very attractive for new members. We wonder therefore whether other supporters could give their opinions on the web-site, and perhaps someone will even be able to re-design it (or certainly the home page) in a more state-of-the-art format?
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For its May event the Springbok Club will be staging a visit to Southend-on-Sea, where one of our supporters, Roger Alsop, will be holding an art exhibition at the town’s central library. The precise details are as follows :-
Date : Saturday 30th May 2015
Time : Assemble any time between 12.00 hrs and 13.00 hrs
Venue : The Southend Central Library, Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1NE.
After the visit to the art exhibition itself everybody will have the opportunity to stroll around this splendid seaside resort to see the sights and to patronize some of its historic hostelries.
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The Kent Branch of the Springbok Club is planning a special event for June, and in July the organization will be holding its annual Rhodes and Founders celebration meeting which will feature a most interesting guest speaker. Following this the Springbok Club will be welcoming a highly respected visiting guest speaker from South Africa, and then in September has been invited once again to participate in the annual “Raising of the Flag” ceremony in Norfolk.
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SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
At its latest meeting the Swinton Circle welcomed Mr. Mick Greenhough, a committee member of the Campaign for an Independent Britain and the editor of the Internet-based publication The Europrobe Gazette, as guest speaker. Mr.Greenhough gave a most enlightening talk on the theme “The Great Global Warming Fraud”, and afterwards answered a series of thoughtful questions both on this subject and about the true nature of the EU establishment.
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Details about the Swinton Circle’s forthcoming Spring Buffet are as follows :-
Date : Thursday 28th May 2015
Time : assemble from 18.00 hrs. onwards, meeting to commence at 19.00 hrs., buffet to be served at approx. 20.15 hrs.
Venue : The ARTILLERY ARMS (the upstairs “Barracks” function room),
102 Bunhill Row, (off Old Street), London EC1Y 8ND. (Close to Old Street tube station – exit via subway 3 and then follow directions from the station to Whitecross Street Market. Proceed along Old Street itself and then take the second major turning to the left into Bunhill Row, where The Artillery Arms is a short distance away on the right-hand side)
The guest speaker at this event will be :-
Mr. JOHN PETLEY B.A. (Oxon), Dip.Theol.
John Petley was born at Redhill in Surrey and was educated at Dorking County Grammar School for two years, from where he won a Surrey County Council-sponsored scholarship to Charterhouse School, Godalming, and then went on to study music at St.Catherine’s College, Oxford. He worked as a researcher at the European Parliament in Brussels from 2006 to 2008 and then spent three years as editor of Freedom Today, the quarterly magazine of The Freedom Association. He currently works as Operations Manager for the Campaign for an Independent Britain. He is the author of several books, including "Top 10 Reasons to Leave the EU", published last year. He represented his school at Cross-Country running and once walked from John O’Groats to Lands End. His current hobbies include classical music (including playing the organ and piano), railways, photography, gardening, country walks and keeping guinea pigs. An Evangelical Christian by persuasion, he is married to Katherine and lives in a village near Heathfield, Sussex.
John will be speaking about his time in Brussels and giving his thoughts on the state of the withdrawalist movement in the UK today.
As always, a sumptuous array of buffet food will be provided at this event, and the price will be only £16.00 per head. As this function will also provide an excellent opportunity to socialise and to discuss the post-General Election situation, this will therefore represent excellent value for money! Payments may be made either by cheques made payable to "The Swinton Circle" and sent to: The Swinton Circle, BM Swinton, London WC1N 3XX or by PayPal via our web-site at: www.swintoncircle.co.uk. Payments may also be made in cash on the day – though in this case we would ask everyone intending to attend to let us know in advance so that we can guage numbers accordingly. This can be done either by e-mailing: swinton@netcomuk.co.uk or by ‘phoning: 07711188430 with your details.
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The Swinton Circle is delighted to announce that its book-selling arm – Swinton Books – is now fully up and running, with an Amazon Seller’s Profile upon which all books available are advertised now having been established. For more details please e-mail swintonbooks@gmail.com.
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Membership fees and donations to the Swinton Circle can be made via PayPal on the organisation’s web-site home page at www.swintoncircle.co.uk - simply 'click' on the line "PayPal = the safer, easier way to pay online" at the bottom of the home page; if the error message "This content cannot be displayed in a Frame" appears then simply 'click' on the line "Open this Content in a New Window".
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain held its annual Goldsmith Lecture earlier this month, at which the Chairman of the organisation, Mr.Dennis Delderfield, gave a very well-received speech about the situation in Britain today following the General Election.
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New Britain will be holding a series of gatherings around the UK on Saturday 13th June to mark United Kingdom Day. The most prominent of these will be held in London at the Capital Club, Abchurch Lane, in the City of London, which take place between 14.30 hrs and 16.00 hrs.
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DISTURBING NEWS ABOUT BOB HEWITT
It was with great shock and concern that we recently heard the news that Bob Hewitt, the Australian-born Lawn Tennis star who subsequently emigrated to South Africa and helped South Africa to win the Davies Cup in 1974, had been charged and found guilty of sexually assaulting young girls - although he has been granted bail pending an appeal.
We know of course that many prominent show-business personalities in the UK have recently been charged and found guilty of similar crimes, and have rightly received long custodial sentences for these hideous crimes – but we know also that several (most prominently Bill Roach the actor) have been found not guilty, and many more who were investigated did not even face trial because they had clearly been framed as a result of their celebrity status.
Bob Hewitt of course firmly “nailed his colours to the mast” by emigrating to South Africa during the days of civilized rule because he clearly wanted to show his solidarity with his South African kith-and-kin. Not only did he excel and become a highly successful doubles-player during his playing days, but afterwards become a greatly admired Lawn Tennis commentator for SABC. With this record it is not surprising that he would became a hate-figure for the ANC regime, and someone who they wished to undermine.
As Bob Hewitt’s appeal is still pending we do not believe it wise to comment further at this stage – suffice to say that if he truly was guilty of this heinous crime then we hope that he receives the maximum sentence possible, but if he has been framed then we wish him well in establishing his innocence and hope that he manages to restore his reputation and to re-build his life away from the hell-hole of the “new” South Africa.
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REPORT FROM THE ZIMBABWE CONSERVATION TASK FORCE
We have recently received the following interesting report from the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force :-
“Despite desperate efforts from thousands of people all over the world, it seems that the export of the baby elephants will go ahead after all. In fact we believe there are now approximately 80 elephants due to be exported.
“The Zimbabwean authorities claim that there are around 54,000 elephants in the Hwange area while the holding capacity is only 15,000. The strange thing about this is that there is an animal count in Hwange National Park every year and in the past 10 years the number of elephants counted has never even come to half that number. A count was done towards the end of last year and the elephant population was around 20,000 so we can't imagine where the additional 30,000 elephants have come from.
“We had a peaceful demonstration in Harare (Salisbury) on Saturday 7th February but nothing remarkable happened there. There are apparently about 26 petitions going on around the world with hundreds of thousands of signatures. We applied for police clearance to have the demonstration on the 27th January but it was denied so we applied again to have it on the 5th February and again, it was denied. On the 7th February, we went to the magistrate to try and get clearance and it was denied so the demonstration we had was without police clearance. We are supposed to be living in a democratic society but we are not allowed to have a peaceful demonstration.
“We are very disappointed that the export is still going ahead and all we can think of doing now is boycotting Zimbabwe - telling everybody not to come to Zimbabwe on holiday.”
The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force relies solely on public donations. Any donation can help to preserve the wildlife in Zimbabwe. If you would like to assist please contact the ZCTF at: galorand@mweb.co.zw
The ZCTF web-site can be accessed at: www.zctfofficialsite.org.
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THE 1976 RHODESIAN TOUR
Many readers will undoubtedly be aware of the famous 1976 Tour of Rhodesia, when five (then) young British patriots visited Rhodesia in order to express their solidarity with their Rhodesian kith-and-kin, and which was featured in S.A.Patriot-in-Exile No.33. A FaceBook page has now been established in order to commemorate this tour, and although it has a “closed” status requests to join may be made at :-
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/987927834558816/
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TATTOO BILLY ON YOUTUBE
In the “Recommended Web-Site of the Month” column of last month’s SCN we recommended a YouTube video featuring a recording of the number “Tercias Veld” played by the band Tattoo Billy. We have since been informed of another excellent YouTube recording by Tattoo Billy entitled “Children of Ham”, and this can be accessed at :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW8pbq58so0
Although we know that many people might be annoyed by the use of the controversial term “Boer” in this video instead of Afrikaner, and although in any case it is all Whites who are suffering from the ANC-inspired genocide campaign and not just Afrikaners, this video is still well worth watching.
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BRUGES GROUP’S M.P. WATCH
We have recently been sent a very interesting notification from The Bruges Group about an excellent new web-site which they have established which monitors the voting record of all British MPs on key EU issues. It is regularly updated, and can be accessed at :-
www.brugesgroup.com/mpwatch
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BOOK OFFERS
"LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALFRED JAMES TOMLINSON: MEMOIRS OF AN AFRICAN PIONEER AND BSAP OFFICER" is now available at Amazon.com, and can be shipped to anywhere in the world. This book contains excerpts from Lieut. Tomlinson's writings detailing his experiences as a member of the BSAP in Southern Rhodesia, where he rose from the rank of an ordinary trooper to retire as the commanding officer. It also includes the personal story of Majaqaba Ncube, a man who was enslaved by Lobengula when his entire village was massacred by the chief's soldiers. After he escaped, Lieut. Tomlinson saved him from certain death and gave him a job. They lost contact and were reunited after 45 years, when Majaqaba presented Lieut. Tomlinson with an earthenware jar.
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"P.K. VAN DER BYL - AFRICAN STATESMAN" by Hannes Wessels
ISBN: 978-1-920143-49-7 / paperback / illustrated
Retail price: R250.00, Web-site price: R200.00 + postage
The narrative gives the reader an overview of the history of the White man in southern Africa with detailed emphasis on the Rhodesian story through the life and times of PK van der Byl, one of the major players in a political drama that ended in the accession to power of Robert Mugabe under the auspices of the British government. By his very nature PK was controversial and confrontational. This account is likely to give offence to some because it portrays him as bluntly as he was in real life. Much can be contested about PK van der Byl but few will dispute he was an extremely colourful character with a devilish sense of humour. This memoir covers his life with a full flourish while doing nothing to detract from the seriousness of the international political and military conflict in which he was engaged. The reader will glean new information on a highly controversial subject and emerge with a more sympathetic understanding of what PK van der Byl and his colleagues did and strove for. The human tragedy that has followed the removal from power of Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Front party will almost certainly force the reader to deal with some uncomfortable conclusions, of value to anyone sincere about grappling with the volatile and deeply troubling challenges that confront all Africans today.
This book and others of interest can be purchased from 30 Degrees South via their web-site: www.30degreessouth.co.za
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"BLUE WATCH" by Gwyn Fford-Osborne
Rhodesia, in 1975 and a bloody vicious civil war is at its height. A war between the White minority supported by the Black majority and the ZAPU and ZANU terrorist groups, supported by Zambia and Mozambique. Kensington, a small town in the farming belt has been the subject of several terrorist attacks but with only a small police force for defence, the local T.A. unit having been called up for service on the Zambia border the situation appears grim. Until Iffor Meredith turns up on a pilgrimage to meet up with his wife and son of his old army buddy, recently murdered by terrorists. A deadly ambush on the "Dix" family and his escape from a land mine attack makes Iffor determined to offer resistance of some form or other to the terrorists. His application to join the Rhodesian Army has been accepted and he sets about forming a small militia. With all the fit men already on call up, who can he recruit from. Then he's invited to a darts match at the Moth Club and meets up with the remnants of the town's Fire Brigade, the men considered too old for call up. Blue Watch.
Available from: www.diadembooks.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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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.198 – Mr. COLIN A. DAY of Durban.
Colin Day – or Colin A. Day as he was inevitably always referred to as – was another member of the “Paul Roper set” in Durban (see April 2001 SCN). British by birth, a bon vivant, he had a most affable laid-back personality, with a subtle and highly infectious sense of humour. It would be good to learn what happened to him, and where he is now.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
We enjoy good and friendly relations with the Get Britain Out organization, and their informative web-site is fully to be recommended. It can be accessed at :-
http://getbritainout.org/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
DEFENCE FIRST
Sir,
Back in the 1920s, the great Admiral Beatty complained bitterly of politicians who were prepared to put the nation's defences in jeopardy fore the sake of a shilling off the income tax. Plus ca change.
Our defences - the first duty of any government - have been deliberately weakened by a combination of anti-military Labour social workers, Tory accountants, and cross-party spin-doctors who understand the price of everything and the value of nothing, least of all defence. They ring-fence the sacred cow of the NHS and waste money on EU contributions to appease Guardianistas.
It is time to reverse defence cuts and restore our defences to Thatcher-era levels. If Labour could manage to spend 5% on defence in the 1970s, why are the Conservatives apparently incapable on managing even 2%? I would pay for this by cutting the aforementioned and financing the arts and sport entirely through the National Lottery, among other things - including higher taxes if it came to the crunch. I find "the taxpayer", who would seemingly rather save money than pay to defend his country, a singularly unattractive person. This is what comes of the Conservatives replacing officers and gentlemen and knights of the shire, with ideologues, penny-pinchers and spin-doctors as MPs
Yours etc.,
Mark Taylor, London, U.K.
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ANGELS AND DEMONS
Sir,
In regards to the last newsletter [SCN, February 2015 – Ed.], it is worth reminding you of the 28,000 Boers who perished in Kitchener's concentration camps. - “…and the British Empire in particular – were the greatest forces for good which the world has ever seen.”
Yours etc.,
Dan Brown, Lancashire, U.K.
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EDUCATING Mr.ZUMA ……
Sir,
In a speech in Cape Town on Friday evening the 9th of January 2015, President Jacob Zuma made the following statement:
“Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa’s problems.”
Never in the history of the world have I heard a Head of State so clearly saying to a part of the population of his country: You are a problem. You are not wanted here. Apart maybe from Adolf Hitler to the Jews of Germany. We take note, Mr. Zuma. We’ll get back to this.
You see, president, we have known for a long time that you are not a very clever man (how’s that for an understatement?!), but to show such clear evidence of your lack of understanding even the most basic knowledge of our history is a blemish on this country.
1) Jan van Riebeeck did not arrive in Cape Town. There was no Cape Town, there was no road, harbour, Castle of Good Hope, Parliament Building, airport, Nkandla or KFC in sight. There was no infrastructure, there was no democracy or elections. In fact, there wasn’t even a Black man in sight. The southern tip of Africa looked pretty much as it did on the day of creation, because the few scattered groups of Khoisan people lived off the land and slept in minute little huts of reed which they would roll up and carry about on their backs when they moved on.
In fact, Mr. Zuma, everything that you set your eyes on, was created by that civilization which Jan van Riebeeck and the descendants of his people brought to this country. Of course, if you wish the country to return to the state of living in little huts of mud, wearing animal skins, not being able to read or write or in fact not even having had the capability of inventing the wheel, by all means – crawl back into your hut. But I’ll be damned if the civilized White, Coloured and Indian population will follow you into that state. You belong in a hut, not me.
2) As applies to where the problem started: The problem started when the weaker and more cowardly African tribes starting running for their lives in the region around the great lakes of Malawi and fled southwards ahead of the Berbers.
As far as they went they murdered and raped and pillaged and stole the land from the rightful owners, the Khoi people. They met the White man around 1718 in the Eastern Cape. Those were your ancestors, Mr. Zuma,.
And the problem started when your ANC decided it wanted to adopt Western concepts like democracy, government, multiculturalism. Unfortunately the African incapability of understanding abstract thought and hypothetical reasoning makes it irreconcilable, so you decided to imitate.
Mr. Zuma, a palace bigger than that of the former Czar of Russia, a fleet of BMW’s, the vote of the majority of non-reasoning people and a KFC meal and a Samsung with enough airtime is not sufficient. The world has recognized you for what you are: YOU are the problem!
3) Zuma ended off his speech with another statement: “We, the Black nation, are crying for our land which was taken by the White people.” Kissing up to Julius Malema now or what? WHAT land? Where is your title-deed?
What evidence do you have? What do you call the vast pieces of land called the Ingonyama Trust and the Royal Bafokeng Trust apart from “our land” for the Black man then? No Mr. Zuma, you might as well stop your act.
You’ve missed the bus, Mr. Zuma. Black majority government in this country is a shameful failure and your ‘forgiveness’ means nothing to us. Keep it. We have no use for it. We are not interested in it. So carry on living in your ignorant little bubble of stupidity – the age of ethnic nationalism has dawned in the rest of the world and it will reach South Africa also. And you will have to bow your head and stand ashamed before history for having had all the opportunities imaginable and making one big, and gruesome bloody genocidal mess of it.
Yours etc.,
Magnus, Natal, South Africa.
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FRONTLINE FRIENDS
Sir,
Thank you very much for your communications, for your prayers and for your encouragement.
Good to hear of Ian Paisley MP’s stand.
Dr. Ian Paisley continues to be a tremendous inspiration and example for us all.
We continue to pray for Britain. We are deeply concerned and pray that you may be able to rescue your country from the clutches of the EU and multicultural political correctness gone mad.
Yours for Reformation and Revival,
Dr. Peter Hammond, Frontline Fellowship, Cape Town, South Africa
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BOERE MITTYS
Sir,
Zuma is just another baboon ranting. But the silly threat, "We will resist you stealing OUR land, be prepared for that." is impotent. Nobody in South Africa can or will stop the savages from wrecking that country. That's why the smart people have left the country. The big, strong “boere” with all their bravado couldn't do anything to stop these k@ffirs and they never will; it was all talk and bluff.
Yours etc.,
Robin Elliott, British Columbia, Canada
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OUR FRIENDS IN THE EAST
Sir,
As with anything and any movement, nationalism has advantages and disadvantages. Any poison can be medicine if we take a little of it. But even the medicine can be poison if we take a lot of it. We can say the same about nationalism.
As to the Ukrainian nationalists, they have some useful and good ideas. Today Ukraine is suffering from UKRAINIAN oligarchs more than from nationalists or fascists. People are deceived as usual. I came to the conclusion that "democratic government" of Ukrainian oligarchs destroys Ukraine under the rule of Merkel's band. I believe the UK will go to the dogs if the British leaders follow German economic policy. The pro-German team has impoverished Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and other states of the ex-Eastern block. Their economics are weakened.
I think that the British Empire (still a great power) should not rely on the pro-German EU. It is a TRAP. Unfortunately you should not trust the US government in economic policy either. As I see it the UK should have a leader like Sir Winston Churchill who will build its OWN Empire and follow its own interests. English nationalism is not nationalism at all. Your historical dignity, features and experience, your GLORY make us (Russians) call your nation "Your Majesty". Remember: Ukrainians will NEVER stand in the first ranks with YOU. Shrill boars cannot stand with a Lion.
Don't you hesitate: Russians will always remember who YOU the British are, and who the Ukraianian gnomes are not.
Yours etc.,
Boris Grig, Kaliningrad, Russia
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THE STRANGE OPINION OF YVONNE HOPPER
The recent re-release of the number “Pop Muzic” by “M” has reminded us of a very strange incident which occurred at a National Forum meeting in Durban around 1980, which was addressed by Harvey Ward, the former head of RBC. During the questions-and-answers session following Mr. Ward’s speech Yvonne Hopper, the wife of Doug Hopper (see October 2000 SCN), asked a most strange question regarding what she considered to be objectionable lyrics in the then recently released recording “Pop Muzic” (with the passing of time we forget whether her objection was because she considered the lyrics subversive, suggestive or for some other reason!). Mr.Ward however, who evidently was not an aficionado of the music scene at the time, apparently believed that her objection was even more bizarrely against pop music generically, and replied in a somewhat bemused manner. We could never work out precisely what it was about the lyrics of “Pop Muzic” which offended Mrs.Hopper at the time, and neither can we today after listening to it several times since its re-release. Perhaps one of our readers can help shed some light on this strange mystery therefore. The catchy number in question can be heard on YouTube at :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avvh5H-EPWU
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May 2015 edition
As we predicted, the British General Election produced some very interesting results, most of which tended to be most encouraging, but which also alas included an extremely disturbing development.
The overall result, which saw the Conservative Party returned to power with an overall majority, was highly significant – not only because for the first time in most people’s memories parties seemingly to the right of centre (Conservative and UKIP) out-voted parties to the left of centre, but also because it marked the near annihilation of the neo-Gladstonian LiberalDemocrat Party and a potentially fatal blow to Ed Miliband’s attempts to revert Labour to its socialist roots. Although we still have serious misgivings about David Cameron as Conservative leader, like former Labour leader Tony Blair before him the realities of power have clearly tempered his more liberal instincts and have moved him in a more realistic rightwards direction. Many of his subsequent cabinet appointments have furthermore happily re-enforced this impression
In Northern Ireland the results were even more encouraging, as they saw Unionist parties re-capturing two seats, one from SF/IRA itself and the other from their fellow-travellers of the Alliance Party, a party which as a result will hopefully soon be defunct. After the most worrying result of 2010 when Unionist and non-Unionist candidates tied with 9 seats each, this current result which saw a positive 11-7 split gives great reason for hope for the future. The “received wisdom” that “birthrate demographics” will eventually produce a Nationalist majority in Northern Island therefore seems to have been firmly disproved.
Although the results in England, Wales, and especially Northern Ireland were highly encouraging, those in Scotland, which saw the odious separatist SNP almost – but not completely – sweep the board, were extremely worrying. The reason for this sickening development is complex, but probably is a result of a combination of Cameron’s reprehensible decision to allow an “independence” referendum last year, the totally unattractive nature of Ed Miliband’s pro-socialist Labour leadership, and the fact that the Scottish Conservative Party had seen fit to appoint an openly lesbian as leader. The fact that the election in Wales, with its similar Keltic composition, went so radically different to that in Scotland – with even UKIP out-voting Plaid Cymru – is not only encouraging, but also clearly provides a clue, for only the second of the three reasons which we have advanced for the disaster in Scotland applies to Wales also. Quite obviously urgent action is therefore needed in Scotland (something which the Swinton Circle intends to play a leading role in helping), with the interesting suggestion being advanced that a Democratic Unionist Party of Scotland should be launched to act as a unifying force for all Scottish Unionists regardless of other ideological opinions.
This leaves the situation concerning UKIP. Although, with practically 4 million votes, UKIP has clearly established itself as the third force in UK politics, their success in winning only one seat and their clear decline since the County Council elections of 2013 and the EuroElections of last year, quite obviously shows that all is not well with the party. The problem, we firmly believe, lies at the top of the party, for at grassroots level their members are clearly good and sincere patriots. Incredibly we have heard that several UKIP leaders have described themselves as Gladstonians (no, we’re not making this up!), with some even going as far as to praise the Levellers, the Chartists and even today’s multi-racial society (again, we’re not making this up!). The situation concerning the seemingly immovable UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, is even more sinister however. We have commented in the SCN previously about rumours that Farage did not initially support the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics, and indeed openly canvassed for the Games to be awarded to Paris. Significantly we have received neither confirmation nor denial from Mr. Farage regarding these rumours. If this was the case then he of course forfeits all right to be considered an authentic patriotic British leader. But there has been another even more disturbing utterance which has indisputably come from Mr.Farage’s lips. During the election campaign he openly stated that he not only opposed Western military intervention in Syria to prevent the advance of the ISIS/ISIL terrorist vermin, but even opposed the successful Western military action in Libya to depose the tyrannical madman Gaddafi, whose support for global terrorism (including that of the IRA and ANC!) threatened us all! Farage’s appeasement towards Islamic expansionism is not only sickening in the extreme, but for someone who made his name by - rightly - opposing EU immigration into the UK now to be opposing necessary military action to prevent an even more insidious invasion threat from Islamic hordes demonstrates a hypocrisy which defies words.
The outcome of the 2015 General Election was greatly encouraging overall therefore, notwithstanding the disaster in Scotland. Urgent action is clearly needed in Scotland of course, although the examples from Wales, and probably even more relevantly from Northern Ireland, shows that salvation is still possible. As far as UKIP in concerned it is up to their majority sincere and authentically patriotic members to seize the initiative. Either they remove their hypocritical leaders and become an genuine and dynamic force in British politics, or else they will slide inevitably into oblivion.
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SPRINGBOK CLUB NEWS
Happily we can report that the problems which beset the Springbok Club at the beginning of the year now seem to have been overcome, and the majority of Committee members have once again resumed their positions. There has however been a criticism of the Springbok Club’s current web-site, which it has been claimed isn’t very attractive for new members. We wonder therefore whether other supporters could give their opinions on the web-site, and perhaps someone will even be able to re-design it (or certainly the home page) in a more state-of-the-art format?
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For its May event the Springbok Club will be staging a visit to Southend-on-Sea, where one of our supporters, Roger Alsop, will be holding an art exhibition at the town’s central library. The precise details are as follows :-
Date : Saturday 30th May 2015
Time : Assemble any time between 12.00 hrs and 13.00 hrs
Venue : The Southend Central Library, Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 1NE.
After the visit to the art exhibition itself everybody will have the opportunity to stroll around this splendid seaside resort to see the sights and to patronize some of its historic hostelries.
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The Kent Branch of the Springbok Club is planning a special event for June, and in July the organization will be holding its annual Rhodes and Founders celebration meeting which will feature a most interesting guest speaker. Following this the Springbok Club will be welcoming a highly respected visiting guest speaker from South Africa, and then in September has been invited once again to participate in the annual “Raising of the Flag” ceremony in Norfolk.
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SWINTON CIRCLE NEWS
At its latest meeting the Swinton Circle welcomed Mr. Mick Greenhough, a committee member of the Campaign for an Independent Britain and the editor of the Internet-based publication The Europrobe Gazette, as guest speaker. Mr.Greenhough gave a most enlightening talk on the theme “The Great Global Warming Fraud”, and afterwards answered a series of thoughtful questions both on this subject and about the true nature of the EU establishment.
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Details about the Swinton Circle’s forthcoming Spring Buffet are as follows :-
Date : Thursday 28th May 2015
Time : assemble from 18.00 hrs. onwards, meeting to commence at 19.00 hrs., buffet to be served at approx. 20.15 hrs.
Venue : The ARTILLERY ARMS (the upstairs “Barracks” function room),
102 Bunhill Row, (off Old Street), London EC1Y 8ND. (Close to Old Street tube station – exit via subway 3 and then follow directions from the station to Whitecross Street Market. Proceed along Old Street itself and then take the second major turning to the left into Bunhill Row, where The Artillery Arms is a short distance away on the right-hand side)
The guest speaker at this event will be :-
Mr. JOHN PETLEY B.A. (Oxon), Dip.Theol.
John Petley was born at Redhill in Surrey and was educated at Dorking County Grammar School for two years, from where he won a Surrey County Council-sponsored scholarship to Charterhouse School, Godalming, and then went on to study music at St.Catherine’s College, Oxford. He worked as a researcher at the European Parliament in Brussels from 2006 to 2008 and then spent three years as editor of Freedom Today, the quarterly magazine of The Freedom Association. He currently works as Operations Manager for the Campaign for an Independent Britain. He is the author of several books, including "Top 10 Reasons to Leave the EU", published last year. He represented his school at Cross-Country running and once walked from John O’Groats to Lands End. His current hobbies include classical music (including playing the organ and piano), railways, photography, gardening, country walks and keeping guinea pigs. An Evangelical Christian by persuasion, he is married to Katherine and lives in a village near Heathfield, Sussex.
John will be speaking about his time in Brussels and giving his thoughts on the state of the withdrawalist movement in the UK today.
As always, a sumptuous array of buffet food will be provided at this event, and the price will be only £16.00 per head. As this function will also provide an excellent opportunity to socialise and to discuss the post-General Election situation, this will therefore represent excellent value for money! Payments may be made either by cheques made payable to "The Swinton Circle" and sent to: The Swinton Circle, BM Swinton, London WC1N 3XX or by PayPal via our web-site at: www.swintoncircle.co.uk. Payments may also be made in cash on the day – though in this case we would ask everyone intending to attend to let us know in advance so that we can guage numbers accordingly. This can be done either by e-mailing: swinton@netcomuk.co.uk or by ‘phoning: 07711188430 with your details.
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The Swinton Circle is delighted to announce that its book-selling arm – Swinton Books – is now fully up and running, with an Amazon Seller’s Profile upon which all books available are advertised now having been established. For more details please e-mail swintonbooks@gmail.com.
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Membership fees and donations to the Swinton Circle can be made via PayPal on the organisation’s web-site home page at www.swintoncircle.co.uk - simply 'click' on the line "PayPal = the safer, easier way to pay online" at the bottom of the home page; if the error message "This content cannot be displayed in a Frame" appears then simply 'click' on the line "Open this Content in a New Window".
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NEW BRITAIN NEWS
New Britain held its annual Goldsmith Lecture earlier this month, at which the Chairman of the organisation, Mr.Dennis Delderfield, gave a very well-received speech about the situation in Britain today following the General Election.
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New Britain will be holding a series of gatherings around the UK on Saturday 13th June to mark United Kingdom Day. The most prominent of these will be held in London at the Capital Club, Abchurch Lane, in the City of London, which take place between 14.30 hrs and 16.00 hrs.
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DISTURBING NEWS ABOUT BOB HEWITT
It was with great shock and concern that we recently heard the news that Bob Hewitt, the Australian-born Lawn Tennis star who subsequently emigrated to South Africa and helped South Africa to win the Davies Cup in 1974, had been charged and found guilty of sexually assaulting young girls - although he has been granted bail pending an appeal.
We know of course that many prominent show-business personalities in the UK have recently been charged and found guilty of similar crimes, and have rightly received long custodial sentences for these hideous crimes – but we know also that several (most prominently Bill Roach the actor) have been found not guilty, and many more who were investigated did not even face trial because they had clearly been framed as a result of their celebrity status.
Bob Hewitt of course firmly “nailed his colours to the mast” by emigrating to South Africa during the days of civilized rule because he clearly wanted to show his solidarity with his South African kith-and-kin. Not only did he excel and become a highly successful doubles-player during his playing days, but afterwards become a greatly admired Lawn Tennis commentator for SABC. With this record it is not surprising that he would became a hate-figure for the ANC regime, and someone who they wished to undermine.
As Bob Hewitt’s appeal is still pending we do not believe it wise to comment further at this stage – suffice to say that if he truly was guilty of this heinous crime then we hope that he receives the maximum sentence possible, but if he has been framed then we wish him well in establishing his innocence and hope that he manages to restore his reputation and to re-build his life away from the hell-hole of the “new” South Africa.
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REPORT FROM THE ZIMBABWE CONSERVATION TASK FORCE
We have recently received the following interesting report from the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force :-
“Despite desperate efforts from thousands of people all over the world, it seems that the export of the baby elephants will go ahead after all. In fact we believe there are now approximately 80 elephants due to be exported.
“The Zimbabwean authorities claim that there are around 54,000 elephants in the Hwange area while the holding capacity is only 15,000. The strange thing about this is that there is an animal count in Hwange National Park every year and in the past 10 years the number of elephants counted has never even come to half that number. A count was done towards the end of last year and the elephant population was around 20,000 so we can't imagine where the additional 30,000 elephants have come from.
“We had a peaceful demonstration in Harare (Salisbury) on Saturday 7th February but nothing remarkable happened there. There are apparently about 26 petitions going on around the world with hundreds of thousands of signatures. We applied for police clearance to have the demonstration on the 27th January but it was denied so we applied again to have it on the 5th February and again, it was denied. On the 7th February, we went to the magistrate to try and get clearance and it was denied so the demonstration we had was without police clearance. We are supposed to be living in a democratic society but we are not allowed to have a peaceful demonstration.
“We are very disappointed that the export is still going ahead and all we can think of doing now is boycotting Zimbabwe - telling everybody not to come to Zimbabwe on holiday.”
The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force relies solely on public donations. Any donation can help to preserve the wildlife in Zimbabwe. If you would like to assist please contact the ZCTF at: galorand@mweb.co.zw
The ZCTF web-site can be accessed at: www.zctfofficialsite.org.
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THE 1976 RHODESIAN TOUR
Many readers will undoubtedly be aware of the famous 1976 Tour of Rhodesia, when five (then) young British patriots visited Rhodesia in order to express their solidarity with their Rhodesian kith-and-kin, and which was featured in S.A.Patriot-in-Exile No.33. A FaceBook page has now been established in order to commemorate this tour, and although it has a “closed” status requests to join may be made at :-
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/987927834558816/
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TATTOO BILLY ON YOUTUBE
In the “Recommended Web-Site of the Month” column of last month’s SCN we recommended a YouTube video featuring a recording of the number “Tercias Veld” played by the band Tattoo Billy. We have since been informed of another excellent YouTube recording by Tattoo Billy entitled “Children of Ham”, and this can be accessed at :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW8pbq58so0
Although we know that many people might be annoyed by the use of the controversial term “Boer” in this video instead of Afrikaner, and although in any case it is all Whites who are suffering from the ANC-inspired genocide campaign and not just Afrikaners, this video is still well worth watching.
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BRUGES GROUP’S M.P. WATCH
We have recently been sent a very interesting notification from The Bruges Group about an excellent new web-site which they have established which monitors the voting record of all British MPs on key EU issues. It is regularly updated, and can be accessed at :-
www.brugesgroup.com/mpwatch
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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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BOOK OFFERS
"LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALFRED JAMES TOMLINSON: MEMOIRS OF AN AFRICAN PIONEER AND BSAP OFFICER" is now available at Amazon.com, and can be shipped to anywhere in the world. This book contains excerpts from Lieut. Tomlinson's writings detailing his experiences as a member of the BSAP in Southern Rhodesia, where he rose from the rank of an ordinary trooper to retire as the commanding officer. It also includes the personal story of Majaqaba Ncube, a man who was enslaved by Lobengula when his entire village was massacred by the chief's soldiers. After he escaped, Lieut. Tomlinson saved him from certain death and gave him a job. They lost contact and were reunited after 45 years, when Majaqaba presented Lieut. Tomlinson with an earthenware jar.
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"P.K. VAN DER BYL - AFRICAN STATESMAN" by Hannes Wessels
ISBN: 978-1-920143-49-7 / paperback / illustrated
Retail price: R250.00, Web-site price: R200.00 + postage
The narrative gives the reader an overview of the history of the White man in southern Africa with detailed emphasis on the Rhodesian story through the life and times of PK van der Byl, one of the major players in a political drama that ended in the accession to power of Robert Mugabe under the auspices of the British government. By his very nature PK was controversial and confrontational. This account is likely to give offence to some because it portrays him as bluntly as he was in real life. Much can be contested about PK van der Byl but few will dispute he was an extremely colourful character with a devilish sense of humour. This memoir covers his life with a full flourish while doing nothing to detract from the seriousness of the international political and military conflict in which he was engaged. The reader will glean new information on a highly controversial subject and emerge with a more sympathetic understanding of what PK van der Byl and his colleagues did and strove for. The human tragedy that has followed the removal from power of Ian Smith and his Rhodesian Front party will almost certainly force the reader to deal with some uncomfortable conclusions, of value to anyone sincere about grappling with the volatile and deeply troubling challenges that confront all Africans today.
This book and others of interest can be purchased from 30 Degrees South via their web-site: www.30degreessouth.co.za
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"BLUE WATCH" by Gwyn Fford-Osborne
Rhodesia, in 1975 and a bloody vicious civil war is at its height. A war between the White minority supported by the Black majority and the ZAPU and ZANU terrorist groups, supported by Zambia and Mozambique. Kensington, a small town in the farming belt has been the subject of several terrorist attacks but with only a small police force for defence, the local T.A. unit having been called up for service on the Zambia border the situation appears grim. Until Iffor Meredith turns up on a pilgrimage to meet up with his wife and son of his old army buddy, recently murdered by terrorists. A deadly ambush on the "Dix" family and his escape from a land mine attack makes Iffor determined to offer resistance of some form or other to the terrorists. His application to join the Rhodesian Army has been accepted and he sets about forming a small militia. With all the fit men already on call up, who can he recruit from. Then he's invited to a darts match at the Moth Club and meets up with the remnants of the town's Fire Brigade, the men considered too old for call up. Blue Watch.
Available from: www.diadembooks.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@iafrica.com for more information. UK contact telephone: 07415 753 340.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW ?
No.198 – Mr. COLIN A. DAY of Durban.
Colin Day – or Colin A. Day as he was inevitably always referred to as – was another member of the “Paul Roper set” in Durban (see April 2001 SCN). British by birth, a bon vivant, he had a most affable laid-back personality, with a subtle and highly infectious sense of humour. It would be good to learn what happened to him, and where he is now.
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RECOMMENDED WEB-SITE OF THE MONTH
We enjoy good and friendly relations with the Get Britain Out organization, and their informative web-site is fully to be recommended. It can be accessed at :-
http://getbritainout.org/
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
DEFENCE FIRST
Sir,
Back in the 1920s, the great Admiral Beatty complained bitterly of politicians who were prepared to put the nation's defences in jeopardy fore the sake of a shilling off the income tax. Plus ca change.
Our defences - the first duty of any government - have been deliberately weakened by a combination of anti-military Labour social workers, Tory accountants, and cross-party spin-doctors who understand the price of everything and the value of nothing, least of all defence. They ring-fence the sacred cow of the NHS and waste money on EU contributions to appease Guardianistas.
It is time to reverse defence cuts and restore our defences to Thatcher-era levels. If Labour could manage to spend 5% on defence in the 1970s, why are the Conservatives apparently incapable on managing even 2%? I would pay for this by cutting the aforementioned and financing the arts and sport entirely through the National Lottery, among other things - including higher taxes if it came to the crunch. I find "the taxpayer", who would seemingly rather save money than pay to defend his country, a singularly unattractive person. This is what comes of the Conservatives replacing officers and gentlemen and knights of the shire, with ideologues, penny-pinchers and spin-doctors as MPs
Yours etc.,
Mark Taylor, London, U.K.
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ANGELS AND DEMONS
Sir,
In regards to the last newsletter [SCN, February 2015 – Ed.], it is worth reminding you of the 28,000 Boers who perished in Kitchener's concentration camps. - “…and the British Empire in particular – were the greatest forces for good which the world has ever seen.”
Yours etc.,
Dan Brown, Lancashire, U.K.
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EDUCATING Mr.ZUMA ……
Sir,
In a speech in Cape Town on Friday evening the 9th of January 2015, President Jacob Zuma made the following statement:
“Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa’s problems.”
Never in the history of the world have I heard a Head of State so clearly saying to a part of the population of his country: You are a problem. You are not wanted here. Apart maybe from Adolf Hitler to the Jews of Germany. We take note, Mr. Zuma. We’ll get back to this.
You see, president, we have known for a long time that you are not a very clever man (how’s that for an understatement?!), but to show such clear evidence of your lack of understanding even the most basic knowledge of our history is a blemish on this country.
1) Jan van Riebeeck did not arrive in Cape Town. There was no Cape Town, there was no road, harbour, Castle of Good Hope, Parliament Building, airport, Nkandla or KFC in sight. There was no infrastructure, there was no democracy or elections. In fact, there wasn’t even a Black man in sight. The southern tip of Africa looked pretty much as it did on the day of creation, because the few scattered groups of Khoisan people lived off the land and slept in minute little huts of reed which they would roll up and carry about on their backs when they moved on.
In fact, Mr. Zuma, everything that you set your eyes on, was created by that civilization which Jan van Riebeeck and the descendants of his people brought to this country. Of course, if you wish the country to return to the state of living in little huts of mud, wearing animal skins, not being able to read or write or in fact not even having had the capability of inventing the wheel, by all means – crawl back into your hut. But I’ll be damned if the civilized White, Coloured and Indian population will follow you into that state. You belong in a hut, not me.
2) As applies to where the problem started: The problem started when the weaker and more cowardly African tribes starting running for their lives in the region around the great lakes of Malawi and fled southwards ahead of the Berbers.
As far as they went they murdered and raped and pillaged and stole the land from the rightful owners, the Khoi people. They met the White man around 1718 in the Eastern Cape. Those were your ancestors, Mr. Zuma,.
And the problem started when your ANC decided it wanted to adopt Western concepts like democracy, government, multiculturalism. Unfortunately the African incapability of understanding abstract thought and hypothetical reasoning makes it irreconcilable, so you decided to imitate.
Mr. Zuma, a palace bigger than that of the former Czar of Russia, a fleet of BMW’s, the vote of the majority of non-reasoning people and a KFC meal and a Samsung with enough airtime is not sufficient. The world has recognized you for what you are: YOU are the problem!
3) Zuma ended off his speech with another statement: “We, the Black nation, are crying for our land which was taken by the White people.” Kissing up to Julius Malema now or what? WHAT land? Where is your title-deed?
What evidence do you have? What do you call the vast pieces of land called the Ingonyama Trust and the Royal Bafokeng Trust apart from “our land” for the Black man then? No Mr. Zuma, you might as well stop your act.
You’ve missed the bus, Mr. Zuma. Black majority government in this country is a shameful failure and your ‘forgiveness’ means nothing to us. Keep it. We have no use for it. We are not interested in it. So carry on living in your ignorant little bubble of stupidity – the age of ethnic nationalism has dawned in the rest of the world and it will reach South Africa also. And you will have to bow your head and stand ashamed before history for having had all the opportunities imaginable and making one big, and gruesome bloody genocidal mess of it.
Yours etc.,
Magnus, Natal, South Africa.
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FRONTLINE FRIENDS
Sir,
Thank you very much for your communications, for your prayers and for your encouragement.
Good to hear of Ian Paisley MP’s stand.
Dr. Ian Paisley continues to be a tremendous inspiration and example for us all.
We continue to pray for Britain. We are deeply concerned and pray that you may be able to rescue your country from the clutches of the EU and multicultural political correctness gone mad.
Yours for Reformation and Revival,
Dr. Peter Hammond, Frontline Fellowship, Cape Town, South Africa
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BOERE MITTYS
Sir,
Zuma is just another baboon ranting. But the silly threat, "We will resist you stealing OUR land, be prepared for that." is impotent. Nobody in South Africa can or will stop the savages from wrecking that country. That's why the smart people have left the country. The big, strong “boere” with all their bravado couldn't do anything to stop these k@ffirs and they never will; it was all talk and bluff.
Yours etc.,
Robin Elliott, British Columbia, Canada
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OUR FRIENDS IN THE EAST
Sir,
As with anything and any movement, nationalism has advantages and disadvantages. Any poison can be medicine if we take a little of it. But even the medicine can be poison if we take a lot of it. We can say the same about nationalism.
As to the Ukrainian nationalists, they have some useful and good ideas. Today Ukraine is suffering from UKRAINIAN oligarchs more than from nationalists or fascists. People are deceived as usual. I came to the conclusion that "democratic government" of Ukrainian oligarchs destroys Ukraine under the rule of Merkel's band. I believe the UK will go to the dogs if the British leaders follow German economic policy. The pro-German team has impoverished Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and other states of the ex-Eastern block. Their economics are weakened.
I think that the British Empire (still a great power) should not rely on the pro-German EU. It is a TRAP. Unfortunately you should not trust the US government in economic policy either. As I see it the UK should have a leader like Sir Winston Churchill who will build its OWN Empire and follow its own interests. English nationalism is not nationalism at all. Your historical dignity, features and experience, your GLORY make us (Russians) call your nation "Your Majesty". Remember: Ukrainians will NEVER stand in the first ranks with YOU. Shrill boars cannot stand with a Lion.
Don't you hesitate: Russians will always remember who YOU the British are, and who the Ukraianian gnomes are not.
Yours etc.,
Boris Grig, Kaliningrad, Russia
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THE STRANGE OPINION OF YVONNE HOPPER
The recent re-release of the number “Pop Muzic” by “M” has reminded us of a very strange incident which occurred at a National Forum meeting in Durban around 1980, which was addressed by Harvey Ward, the former head of RBC. During the questions-and-answers session following Mr. Ward’s speech Yvonne Hopper, the wife of Doug Hopper (see October 2000 SCN), asked a most strange question regarding what she considered to be objectionable lyrics in the then recently released recording “Pop Muzic” (with the passing of time we forget whether her objection was because she considered the lyrics subversive, suggestive or for some other reason!). Mr.Ward however, who evidently was not an aficionado of the music scene at the time, apparently believed that her objection was even more bizarrely against pop music generically, and replied in a somewhat bemused manner. We could never work out precisely what it was about the lyrics of “Pop Muzic” which offended Mrs.Hopper at the time, and neither can we today after listening to it several times since its re-release. Perhaps one of our readers can help shed some light on this strange mystery therefore. The catchy number in question can be heard on YouTube at :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avvh5H-EPWU
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