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Mr. Zuma’s Anti Dog Culture


For once I agree wholeheartedly with the utterings of Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa. He said it was not a good idea for black Africans to pamper dogs as …
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Mutiny of the Drone pilots


Slowly some information is seeping through the secret defences of the American army. Maybe one day it will be given a name, ‘The Mutiny of the Drone Warriors.’ Already for …
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Galvanic Reactions?


South African president Jacob Zuma, after his victorious rally in the university of Bloemfontein (built and established by Boere South Africans), tells us he is praying for Nelson Mandela and …
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Mr. Nelson Mandela


This is an impression that’s written on the spur of the moment. News has been circulating for the last ten days about Mr. Nelson Mandela’s health that I have difficulty …
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PS to As The Crow Flies


PS to ‘As the Crow Flies… Yesterday I nattered a bit about doctors, sick people and illnesses but I forgot about a notion that I carry about for quite some …
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As the Crow Flies…


As the crow flies…is an expression whereby some idiot writer tried to indicate the shortest distance between two geographical locations. I do not know who was the first scribbler to …
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How to Invent a Constitution


Why people go to universities to study human history is a mystery for me because just about all written history is a pack of lies and the bits which might …
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Outsource governments!


Millions…billions…oh well, never mind the trillions, already I only have a vague idea of the amount a billion of something represents. However, politicians seem to have a very fast learning …
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The Fracking of Genetically Modified Food


Caen is an inland harbour on the Normandie coast of France. The river Orne has been used to make a canal for sea-going ships and I went there once in …
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Food and Bio-fuel.


Food prices are going up!  Newspapers, duly influenced by their governments, blame the drought in one small part of the world, a few states in the US, as the cause …
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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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