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Nelson Mandela, at last…


                                       Nelson Mandela, at last…   Well, it seems that the last whisks of the Great Mandela Mania are sweeping past to their ultimate oblivion. It must certainly have …
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Not a long walk to Richness


  Year by year it is becoming more evident what the freedom fighters in South Africa were after while being embattled in their heroic ’Struggle’. Democracy or the uplifting of …
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Is Dr. Simphiwe Sesanti right?


                                           Investigating the failures of black governments to serve black people, Dr. Sesanti states in his last paragraphs of “ Was Mandela’s hand forced?” (CT 31/10)  that the world’s …
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Electric Cars?


What I think about green notions and electric cars, as explained in Business Report. The Publisher and Executive Editor, Simply Green Magazine, Mr. Chris Erasmus, wants to see facts when …
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Another letter to the Cape Times


INAPTOCRACY.  A new word invented by Jean d’Ormesson of the Académie française.  “Inaptocracy: A system of government whereby those least able to govern are elected by those least able to …
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Letter to the Cape Times


                             www.maritimebooks.co.za    Almost all governments on earth are totally corrupt. Possibly a few exceptions exist; Andorra, Liechtenstein and maybe Switzerland. We all have an idea how scientists, farmers, …
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Reflections


You know, I like to do a bit of writing more often than not if only to get my own ideas in proper shape. I’m not a good speaker; the …
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A plugged Suez Canal?


Good Day Nick  Thanks for the email – I will be writing about this topic again, if not this week, then next.  Below is an article that appeared in The …
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Asylum in Russia?


I belong to a generation that was very aware of the cold war, which was the horrible nuclear bomb play who was going to be the biggest bully, America or …
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Another Doctor Story


From Nick Dekker, De Kelders.                                                     Primum, Non Nocere!     To Dr. X.   The 11/06/2013 you prescribed for me 5 tablets of Tavaloxx 750 …
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Sink the Birkenhead

Sink the Birkenhead!

SINK THE BIRKENHEAD ! which is the story of Maqoma´s Last War

by Nicholas Dekker

This is the story of a lone Xhosa Chief who destroyed a British Navy troopship that threatened to annihilate his nation in 1852. This is the story how the attack was carried out by a few African black people. [...]

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