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The New World, not Brave.


A few days ago appeared in a local French newspaper the picture of a fellow who proudly proclaimed that he had been a member of the team that tried to …
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Olympic Reflections


As I can only watch the Olympics on the SABC you can understand that I haven’t seen much of the efforts of all these athletes. Many of them appear to …
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Letter to professional writers


Letter to: John Scott (Cape Times), Don Pinnock (ex editor Getaway), Donwald Pressly (Business Report).   The reason why I’m writing to you gentlemen is because I asked all three …
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Sardine fishing in Walker Bay


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Why is Africa Africa?


Why is Africa Africa? Why are Africans more homogeneous as a continental population than any other population on earth? Is it because Mama Afrika is the mother of humanity? The …
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Cosmic Consciousness.


After my last blog my brother Jack in Australia asked me whether I was getting religious whereupon I asked him whether he had ever spotted anything intelligent in any religion. …
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Intelligence in animate- and inanimate matter.


What’s the plural of ‘mongoose’? Could it be two mongeese? I don’t know and …. right, right , my spelling thing on this machine has already told me, it’s mongooses. …
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FISH FOR AFRICA.


FISH FOR AFRICA. South Africa has a lengthy coastline, 1350 nautical miles, 2500km for the landlubbers, along which flows the most fertile seawater that Gaïa has bestowed upon us living. …
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Megalo..something?


Look at this picture. You would think that no one today has the audacity to have himself immortalised pictorially in such a fashion but this fellow, Lukasjenko, apparently, has other …
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A Bloodthirsty king and Bribes.


There’s a fellow living in Spain called Juan Carlos. He’s the king of the Spaniards, appointed by that murderer Franco in the 1970’s. The chap’s never did anything noteworthy, except …
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How I saw the Twin Towers from the Hudson River

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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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