My Dash. By Uncle Monty.

My Dash To Durban.

By Uncle Monty.
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South Africa’s Durban stands on the Indian Ocean
and is about 300 miles south-east of Johannesburg.
I arrived here late last night to stay as an invited
house guest with my dear friend Elizabeth
Middleton, who is an Anglo-Afrikaner.

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At first she had suggested I come after the close of
The World Cup on July 11th, but then she decided

I should come earlier to stay with her for around

a week. Such then explains my dash to Durban.
This is my first visit to Durban itself with her
almost 3½ million population and my
third visit to Zud Africa.
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Ablaze with all things World Cup, you'd have to
be completely blind and/or deaf not to be over-
whelmed by the national emotion and sports
drama that has intoxicated every square mile
of this country from the stinking shanties to the

small steel skycrapers of South Africa. While The

World Cup does nothing for me personally, it

does so for millions of sports fans from around

the world. Many fans have spent an arm and

leg just getting here and then just to say they've

been to The World Cup. It's not worth a dime

to me. Instead, I'd rather meet Tutu, again ...

Or stand atop of Table Mountain!

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:: Durban Update ::

Hundreds miss World Cup semi-final (at Durban)

thanks to deluge of private jets ferrying in royalty,

celebrities and heads of state.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1293150/Hundreds-miss-World-Cup-semi-final-thanks-deluge-private-jets-ferrying-royalty-celebrities-heads-state.html#ixzz0t8SC37eE
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Yet here at Durban with its new and architectually-
impressive 70,000-seat Moses Mabhida Stadium‎
(shown in the above caption picture), I still have a
deep lingering feeling that all is not well with the
ever-soaring crime rates, almost hourly murders
day and night, street violence, open poverty, daily
rapes, robberies ten to the dozen each day, and a
sense of social breakdown and disorder despite all
the hoopla of The World Cup and the over-
bearing presence of gun-totting cops of the
South African Police Service (SAPS).
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To visit South Africa again is fine thanks to the
kindness, love, and generosity of Elizabeth Middleton,
but I don't want to live the remaining days of my life
here in Zud Africa, especially not being black. Whites
are, of course, a distinct racial minority here and who
hold little or no political or national sway against
the barbarous majority of blacks. I don't want to
live under Black Rule - period! While an avalanche
of black discontent seems almost inevitable against
the current South Africa government of thug-like
president Jacob Zuma - who much like every SA
government since Mandela's majority rule - that

has failed disasterously to fulfil the economic and
social aspirations of their own native people.

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Millions upon millions of rand has been spent

to showcase The World Cup, but the reality is

by the time I have finished this brief overview

of my present SA visit at least another 100 other

citizens will either have been murdered, mugged,

molested, and/or maimed by one of their own

fellow black citizens. And, another couple of

hundred new babies will have been born to a

life of all things bad about today's South Africa.

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Oh and before I forget to say something about

the idiotic vuvuzela that is truly a noise menace,

I wouldn't want one even if they were free. No.

siree! Just a couple of days ago here in Durban,

a 14 year-old football lad was shot dead with two

bullets in his head by his next door neighbour for

doing hoots on his vuvuzela. How cruel and sick?

London's Olympics boss wants to ban the vuvuzela

from the 2012 Games. Right on, Lord Coe!

When a vuvuzela is not a vuvuzela, is now one of

the questions outside of South Africa. Who cares?

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Updated: Fatwa issued against vuvuzela.

http://www.siasat.com/english/news/fatwa-issued-against-vuvuzela
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For those who might be interested, Durban is where

the white Union of South Africa was formed in 1910.

The country's centenary has all but been ignored by,

of course, today's black power structure in Zud Africa.

All they want to talk about is world football, not the

country's historic past. While Soweto is supreme in the

black memory and is thus elevated and adored in the

political and social nomenclature of non-white Petoria.

Peter Delmar's piece gives insight into the almost ignored,

and recently passed, centennial in South Africa today:

SA's centenary all but forgotten.
There's more to 2010 than just the soccer World Cup.
By Peter Delmar.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/article149919.ece

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Durban is ZA's third largest city and

is meteorologically subtropical.

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From Durban I shall travel overland to the capital
and largest city of Portuguese Moçambique or

Mozambique that is now called Maputo after being

once known as Lourenço Marques/Lourenzo Marques.

The Maputo capital is just over 1 million in population.

It's about 285 miles directly north from Durban and

is easy to drive to by car which Elizabeth and I will do

together. After that, I shall make my return flight

to Shannon and then onto London. My dash to

Durban will then be over in almost a flash ...

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In the meantime, I shall take a much needed rest from

my megablog unless something extraordinary happens

while here at South Africa or at Moçambique.

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Have a nice day, Uncle Monty.

+St. Maria, 2010.

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Why South Africa is braced for an unwanted baby boom.
By Rosanna Greenstreet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1291137/Why-South-Africa-braced-unwanted-baby-boom.html#ixzz0sy2nzOSD

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British believe Africans are barbaric, says Jacob Zuma.

By David Smith in Johannesburg.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/03/british-africans-barbaric-jacob-zuma
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JOHANNESBURG. S. Africa's ex-top cop found guilty

of corruption. The case against Jackie Selebi, a one-time

president of Interpol, has been a chief exhibit in a national

debate over whether corruption and political meddling is

undermining the fight against crime. South Africa's rates

of murder and assault are among the world's highest.

By Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012260713_apafsouthafricaselebi.html
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The Death of "Village England."

The Picture Shows Today's Rise of The Police

State Inside "Broken Britain." The massive

hunt for Raoul Moat is a disturbing display of

Police State Britain with 20 armoured carriers

(shipped in from Northern Ireland) and about

100 (or now almost 200) armed Brit police

snipers searching rural Northumbria for him.

Plus, the police costs incurred will no doubt run

into hundreds of thousands of quids due to the

police overkill and their deadly fire power over

one single individual against the almighty power

of the state. There is a new kind of armed savagery

that never existed before we armed the British

police. And, the death of "Village England" they

have now also brought about by killing it off for-

ever ... I detest what I see in "Broken Britain"

today. We've torn the country apart and we

no longer belong to what was once rightfully

our's. Truly, Uncle Monty. +St. Maria, 2010.

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:: Update ::

"So now we have trigger-happy police from Northern

Ireland as well as members of the proven trigger-happy

MET looking for just one guy! How much is this costing

the taxpayer? Are there any guarantees that innocent

people going about their legitimate day-to-day business

aren’t going to be shot by some cop? Quick answer No!"

- ExPat, Malta., 08/07/2010

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:: Update From Durban ::

Raoul Thomas Moat, 37, kills himself after police move in.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5heTyc2SpdVgFb1bN6wd-lkl406LwD9GS2CN80

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How To Kill A "Human Fly." By Uncle Monty.

http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-kill-by-uncle-monty.html

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Chafed, Uncle Monty at Durban,

South Africa. +Eve of St. Benedict, 2010.

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By Graham Walker - "TheBigIssueMan."

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