THULI MADONSELA: SOMEONE IS TRYING TO KILL ME

Front page of the Sunday Times of 8 May 2016

This is shocking news from a trustworthy person, Advocate Thuli Madonsela. I suggest to you that she has done an enormous amount of good work in South Africa so much so that the influential TIME Magazine named her amongst its 100 most influential people. She was called South Africa's fearless public advocate.

And now she is fearful for her life!

She even alleges that her allegations were not treated seriously by Crime intelligence officers. Well, Madame Thuli what did you expect? Even the Contortionist joked about Nkandla; these intelligence officers know they are safe because of what their president is doing in parliament.

The plans are that she will succumb in a fake motor vehicle accident. Now we all know that if this lady is killed in a motor vehicle accident, it was a successful assassination. These are chilling words to write down - but it comes from a reputable person who successfully tackled the Contortionist and were vindicated by the highest court in R.S.A. namely the Constitutional Court. You can download this interesting case to read at your leisure as well as at your consternation.

I don't advise the Advocate to confide in the Contortionist as he would in all probabilities just sit and giggle like a raunchy schoolchild. Please read my previous blogpost in respect of the shameful behaviour of the Contortionist in Parliament. When he was taken to task about his shameful disregard for Parliament, the Speaker [the same person who figured in the Con Court case and where she lost] ordered the speaker to sit down.

When I read this report in the SUNDAY TIMES I was vividly reminded of a similar incident playing out in my offices. My client phoned me one morning rather early and I could hear naked fear in this man's voice. He told me that what he termed as the clothing mafia are after him to kill him. Fortunately it didn't happen at the time. He had a heart attack while driving his motor vehicle.

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DON'T DIE WITHOUT A WILL!!!

Pablo Picasso died intestate

I was reading on the internet and I came across this slideshow of famous people [some not so famous] who passed away intestate.

Even Pablo Picasso got caught that way.

Can you believe that Abraham Lincoln also passed away intestate.

Abraham Lincoln passed away intestate

Please get in touch with me at my e-mail address: neelscoertse@wirelessza.co.za [before it is too late and your intestate heirs are cashing in]. You may even phone me on 011-783-2248 or 084-456-1030.

I'd love to hear from you.

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A COINCIDENCE IN THE ARABIAN DESERT

Where do you start telling a bizarre story? Probably right at the start, not so? Now I will ask you where is the start of such a story? The setting for this story is in the Arabic desert in Dubai. Shall I then start with the beginning of the Arabian desert? Maybe I shall start telling you about that court case about Islam that I read 30 years ago? Well, let me just start somewhere.

My wife Annemarié Coertse and our son Niel with

Daniel Brawn in the Arabian Desert

Our son Niel practises in Dubai as a lawyer for the last 10 months. Annemarié and I visited him middle April 2016. Prior to us going, I asked him to arrange visits to the houses of parliament, the Highest Court in Dubai and another place or two. That request met with some resistance from his side with the strong retort: “Dad, you shouldn’t pluck out your camera and start shooting. It is not South Africa.”

I decided to keep a low profile and not to arrange anything and left all arrangements in his hands. That was the better part of wisdom. When we arrived there he had everything planned to perfection. He arranged a dune bashing trip with his colleague Daniel Brawn. 

Annemarié went with Niel in his Jeep and Daniel and I were in his Jeep.

Daniel comes from the UK and is 63 years old having started his career as a welder. He then decided he does not want to grow old with all sorts of career injuries and he enrolled at a University in the UK studying ancient history and archaeology. He had a growing family and he couldn’t survive on the income from this field of study. Then he started law and ended with a doctorate in law. As I have stated above, he and Niel are now at the same international firm of lawyers in Dubai.

Daniel lived for some time as a child in South Africa where his dad was a political activist telling his story by making movies. As a child he met with a number of well-known activists and he was in the same class as Sir Seretse Khama’s, the previous president of Botswana, son Lieutenant General Ian Khama.

Niel, on the other hand also developed his career. First of all, he was vehemently opposed to academic studies and started as cabinet maker working amongst others on Mr Harry Oppenheimer’s furniture. Then he qualified as a lawyer and now works in Dubai.

Now I ask you another question: What are the chances that I would have met Daniel Brawn in the Arabian desert during April 2016 and discussing, amongst others, this court case about Islam that I read some 30 years ago and have never ever even given it another thought? Well, it happened and I met him and we were bashing dunes and seeing the odd camel or stopping at an oasis.

The odd camel wandering around

While I was with Daniel, Annemarié was having a go at the dunes with her eyes closed and yelling. She describes her ordeal as exactly the same as if in an amusement park but that it lasted three hours.

Daniel and I had the most extraordinary conversation in his Jeep. Niel asked him afterwards, why did he every now and again slow down considerably? Daniel explained: “Niel, that was when your dad and I were discussing something important.”

He is now researching the ancient history of Dubai and more specifically its social structures and the different sects found in Islam. That was the time that I referred to that South African court case. We also discussed the case the EFF recently won against Jacob Zuma. I told him that I read that case en route to Rome in the aeroplane while my fellow passengers were glued to the tiny TV screens watching movies. I gave Daniel my copy with my manuscript notes on it and he promised to read it, which he subsequently did.

I am sure you still remember the meeting when Professor Himla Sootyal delivered her lecture at our West Gauteng Branch on DNA and when she recommended a book by Bryan Sykes: THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE. Back in South Africa I sent Daniel a reading list inclusive of this book.

We also discussed Cheik Anta Diop’s book THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION. He undertook to obtain his own copy and read it.

He then guided us to an archaeological site deep inside the desert that is apparently 120 000 years old. There he showed us where that community lived and buried their loved ones. Burial, you should bear in mind, is one of the important markers that sets us for ever apart from the animal kingdom. The other marker is agriculture. Bryan Sykes grows lyrical about these facts; it struck me forcefully that these markers are indeed most remarkable and that nothing, not even our technological advances, can compare with these two markers: agriculture and burials.

The archaeological site where there was

a community living about 120 000 years ago with

some of the graves visible

In these photos you will see caves where the ancients buried their loved ones. I venture to state that these photos must be probably some of the oldest one can get – it is certainly much older than Sterkfontein’s graves [Link to the Genealogical Society of South Africa's Cemetry Recording Project] we photographed some time ago. While we were there, it was only the wind you could hear blowing softly over these ancient sites as if the wind was accentuating the ancient secrets buried thousands of years ago – these sites are not going to yield its secrets easily. I think that if you listen carefully to the wind and keep on digging, you will eventually discover some of their secrets. Daniel says that when you sleep out in the desert, at night you can hear the sand rolling down the dunes.

A couple of kilometres from there but within walking distance, there was a small village with camels out on the desert sand. They are living within earshot from this site. On the face of the desert sand there is nothing to eke out a living let alone to educate your kids or keep your camel farm going. How do they manage?

When you travel in the Eastern Cape or Zambia or Zimbabwe, there is always some sound somewhere in the distance. Here, in this desert I only heard the wind.

The wind blowing softly over this ancient site, is still howling in my ears.

The graves of the ancients

Please read those books – you never know whom you might meet thirty years from now!

[Links to Cheik Anta Diop on Wikipedia; and another video clip]

[Link to Bryan Sykes on Wikipedia]

It was a mind changing encounter with Daniel Brawn and I want to go back to spend time with Daniel in the desert and to meet with the nomads.

Back from the desert we had to inflate the tires

for normal road conditions

I think that the meeting with Daniel was serendipitous to the extreme. I never thought that I would visit a place such as Dubai, let alone meeting a man such a Daniel Brawn, bashing dunes up and down and having these amazing conversations somewhere in the Arabic desert.

Thank you Daniel Brawn for taking time and that you spent it with us.

Miracles do happen – even in the Arabic desert.

Please drop me an e-mail at neelscoertse@wirelessza.co.za

Neels Coertse

Editor West Gauteng Newsletter

Branch of the Genealogical Society of 

South Africa [Link to the West Gauteng Branch's Newsletters]

30 April 2016

[This article was first published on behalf the West Gauteng Branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa on 30 April 2016]

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THE CONTORTIONIST IS STILL ON THE THRONE CALLED NKANDLA

My wife and I are back from our short but eventful holiday in Rome & Dubai. Our spirits soared like Jonathan Livingstone's Seagull - a seagull that guided me on top of St Peter's Basilica and I was fortunate to have captured and to now share it with you.

I experienced a blessing.

Back in our sunny country I soon realised that even with the Guptas on the face of it no longer in South Africa, that sham of a man whom I call THE CONTORTIONIST is still on the throne of Nkandla. And that he is still laughing even in the face of Judge Yacoob telling him to abdicate. Remember this judge? He said he disagreed with the acquittal of Zuma on charges of rape; later the judge pulled the same trick as every politician by pack peddling or adjusting what he really said. Just bear this in mind.

There are very prominent South Africans who called on the Contortionist to go [nobody is brave enough the suggest where this chappie should go to, and they all leave it up to our own imaginations]. You may want to see who those South Africans are - you may read about some of them here.

I have a video clip wherein the ex Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says he thinks it is a good thing if Zuma quits. Watch this video and pay attention more or less at 10:15 where he sets out his views. Manuel is of the view that the Contortionist violated the Constitution - and I agree with Manuel. Here is another link wherein Stephen Groote writes about this video clip as well.

In the meantime I will leave you for now and thank you for reading my blog. Here's one to Zuma, the ultimate Contortionist - I took a snapshot of this Rolls Royce while we were in Dubai; I really don't know whether it belong[ed] to either one of the Guptas or maybe ex Minister of Finance Van Rooyen or maybe en route to SA for the Contortionist.

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SHORT HOLIDAY/RESEARCH AWAY FROM OFFICE

Kosmos

I will not update my blog for at least two weeks. My wife and I are going to Rome for inter alia research in the Vatican Library, visits to the Italy's Houses of Parliament & the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Then we are off to Dubai to visit our son.

In the meantime please have a look at the video clip of Mr Trevor Manuel advising the Contortionist to "... step aside ..." I do hope that is what he said and that he will not come back two days from now to retract what he said. On the other hand, the Contortionist's footwork is exemplary, don't you think? He even came off the rapes charge against him. What does Manuel mean "... to step aside ..."?

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ICELANDIC's PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS IN THE WAKE OF THE PANAMA PAPERS SCANDAL

Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson

the ex-PM of Iceland

News headlines report that the Icelandic's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson has resigned in the wake of the ever growing Panama paper scandal - read it here. That was the honourable thing to do. I suggest to you the PM is an educated man with some sort of self respect and integrity.

Even Richard Nixon eventually resigned - and it is rather trite that he was somewhat of a rogue president. Read it here.

Well, while writing this blogpost I am thinking of Mr Seb Blatter - eventually that guy also resigned. He tried to put up a fight but then he did the honourable thing as well and resigned. Read it here.

In our rainbow country? Can we expect that from our leaders? Absolutely not!

Zuma claimed to be innocent. And yet the Con Court brought out a devastating judgment against the man as well as against the honourable Baleka Mbete and they are clinging to power. Read the Con Court judgment here. Honourable people? Not in your life!

And of course Parliament chucked out a motion to impeach the Contortionist - read it here. It comes as no surprise.

I suggest to you that both Zuma, the ANC and the Government are totally oblivious of the import of the Con Court judgment. They are totally inept to grasp the fundamental truths contained in the judgment. They are complete failures. They lack the capacity to appreciate the constitutional crisis they are creating because they are fools.

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ICELAND'S PRIME MINISTER SHOULD TAKE LESSONS FROM OUR CONTORTIONIST

Iceland's PM is a rookie in respect of avoiding difficult situations. He doesn't know how to handle it. He pulled the same trick or stunt the late old Advocate John Vorster [do you still remember that man?] pulled on journalists many moons ago. John walked out of the SABC's studios when his pants were on fire from the hot seat he occupied.

This scandalous behaviour of the Icelandic PM is a sequel from those famous/infamous Panama documents-leaks that are now splashed all over the world.

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson

Prime Minister of Iceland

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the PM of Iceland, did exactly the same. He alleged that he was "tricked" into the interview and then he just walked out. Just like that. Do you want to look how the PM did it? Click here. It is fascinating to watch.

No, oh no, Mr PM. That is not the way to handle matters - especially when the questions are getting tough. It is obvious that you are a rookie [I say this with the greatest of respect sir, but it is abundantly clear that it was inappropriate behaviour from your side.]

Sigmund - have a close look at how to behave.

Man o man, that's the way to do it.

The contortionist in Parliament

We in SA have an expert in avoiding trickery, avoiding facts, avoiding sinister dealings, avoiding parliament [even when the majority of members our rainbow parliament are his lapdog], avoiding our highest court views about his trickery and sinister behaviour. He is also a past master in blame shifting. He can even plead "Not guilty" with a straight face. Yes, it is our own Contortionist Jacob.

I am absolutely positive that our guy will teach/train/guide you how to handle it - provided that you get past the Gupta-family [who are, so it seems, the real government or power behind the presidential throne and further provided that you pay a handsome amount in that offshore accounts that you and you wifey holds. Please remember it should be for the benefit of the Contortionist or his nephew]. Don't try your luck with ex-Minister of Finance David Van Rooyen - he could only hang in for a mere five days before he got fired. He was not quick enough to get the keys to the strong room where all our money are kept [Oh my word! I do hope that there is something left].

He will of course also introduce you to his legal team and afterwards you can blame them for your actions. He will also introduce you to his service providers for shady deals.

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