
Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates
November 27, 2020
Panto 2020 season is a bit quiet this year, but this soundtrack brings back the magic of theatre.
Uganda’s Leader @KagutaMuseveni of 35 Years Is Re-elected Amid Accusations of Vote-Rigging https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/world/africa/uganda-election-results.html?smid=tw-share
"Nice to see you again. how are you?": Major-General Gowon and Colonel Obasanjo accept #Biafra's surrender at an official ceremony unlike any other in Lagos #Nigeria on 15 January 1970 #NigerianCivilWar
3Luxury Living in a Failed State: There is no place quite like Luanda #Angola one of the most unequal cities on Earth. Half of Angolans live on less than $2 a day and only 42% have regular access to electricity https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/01/extreme-city-specter?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned via @NewYorker
Yoweri Museveni and Other African ‘Presidents for Life’; several are now gone https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/world/europe/yoweri-museveni-and-other-african-presidents-for-life.html?smid=tw-share
Ugandans Are Voting. Will Their President of 35 Years Win Again? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/world/africa/uganda-elections-bobi-wine-museveni.html?smid=tw-share
Operation SERVAL: French Gazelle helicopters arrive in Bamako #Mali on 14 January 2013
4Operation SERVAL: French Panhard ERC 90 Sagaie disembarked at Bamako #Mali airport on 13 January 2013
2#Ghana President Kofi Busia interviewed in London after being overthrown by a coup on 13 January 1972 https://youtu.be/-n4ylDLuMdg via @YouTube
Bullets and panic: an estimated 200 rebels attack #CentralAfricanRepublic capital of Bangui; one @UN soldier killed https://reut.rs/3q96j4S
Scenes in Lagos as Efiong Announces Surrender of #Biafra 12 January 1970 #NigerianCivilWar https://youtu.be/DfrMmaLgOc8 via @YouTube
The Fall of Biafra 12 January 1970 by @AdeyinkaMakinde http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-fall-of-biafra.html
211 January 1972: The Pearce Commission, sent to #Rhodesia as part of November Smith-Home independence agreement to canvass Black opinion, arrived in Salisbury https://youtu.be/yfYCTnilrtA via @YouTube
6 Park Rangers Ambushed and Killed in Congo Gorilla Reserve @gorillacd northeast of Goma blamed on Mai-Mai militia; 175 rangers have been killed in the park https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/world/africa/congo-gorilla-park-rangers-killed.html?smid=tw-share
Statement from Virunga National Park following the fatal attack on Park Rangers today: https://bit.ly/38w5jSr
10-13 January 1976- "There has been nothing and now we are going home" said #Kenya's Daniel Arap Moi, as the OAU summit in Addis Ababa #Ethiopia adjourned on 13 January deadlocked over support of the factions in #Angola https://youtu.be/UqQf-g36QmA via @YouTube
10 January 1976: at first day of OAU summit in Addis Ababa #Ethiopia, Idi Amin diving fully clothed into the Hilton Hotel swimming pool https://youtu.be/ns9sHftdKAw via @YouTube
Fighting Men of #Rhodesia | Andre Scheepers ep09 #RhodesianBushWar https://youtu.be/nhUh396Oxr4 via @YouTube
Panto 2020 season is a bit quiet this year, but this soundtrack brings back the magic of theatre.
De Hoop Nature Reserve is probably best known for the opportunity it offers for on-land whale watching. Ilona Kolbe took a day trip recently, and took some photgraphs that show other pleasures in this diverse region. Small Matters The reserve doesn’t feature the “Big 5”, which makes it an extra special space for walkers, joggers
The weather is getting chilly, and we risk losing our heads. Fairness is not a universal concept, and our bridges burn.
As the so called “second wave” of the Coronavirus threatens to hit, there are growing reports that we are at it again – Buying bog roll.
Those who have lived long enough to remember a civilian aircraft being shot down in the then Rhodesia in 1978 have long since associated Terror September with our capacity for violence and evil. The international silence that followed rubbed caustic soda in the wounds of the bereaved. While another attack has happened since, with far
Rhodesian Remembrance 2020, the paty, the music and a plea from the Golden Oldies
Stats and statues : You are the slave enabler. You are the statue.
Bad news gushes out of Southern Africa, while good news seems trickle. This post by Tyler Leigh Vivier reminded me that life is about balance, and there is plenty to celebrate. What else is good? Pic is CC
A gay Rhodesian? The thought never occurred to me before, I don’t know why. Peter Wood changed that. He wrote a book called Mud Between My Toes which ticks one name off my Christmas gift lists this year -If I can stop listening to him long enough to actually order a copy. greatwhitetribe.com is a
September – South African songwriter Don Clarke