This so called college posits itself as being part of Hubei Normal University. It isn't. It is a private and fraudulently run institution that uses 'foreign teachers' as a marketing ploy to get optimistic parents to enrol their under-educated kids in the hope the result will be a degree from an overseas university.
My wife and I were contacted by a woman who calls herself Kelly [Xu Yan] and acts as the friendly face of a Captain Queeg character who sits nehind a closed door with the word Principal on it. One lie after another. No promises were fulfilled after we travelled from Australia to Huangshi in Hubei Province. I was initially led to a dungeon in the sky and told it was my accommodation. I refused it. My dogs would not be comfortable there I told Kelly. I was then put in a motel with leaking toilet that was never fixed. After that we were put into a flat outside the campus. A tiny elephant lived above us. We could never sleep. The fridge, washing machine, kettle etc didn't work The bed was a strip of wood with a sheet over it. The TV didn't work. Flying ants filled the flat. Construction began at 3am outside the flat.
The majority of the students couldn't speak any English, yet we were expected to teach them business management and half the classroom time was devoted to diary writing. The students hadn't a clue 5and this so called college couldn't give a care.
I was told to tell the college when I thought it needed advice. I did. They listened with smiles. Nothing was done. I resigned, gave more than a month's notice and was summarily sacked with no pay.
I saw a law firm. This law firm called itself Humanism Lawyers. They were in league with the college. Nothing was done. All were corruptly involved with one another.
Wang Quan is the name of the Principal of this International College of Hubei Normal University. He is the Captain Queeg of Academics. He doesn't look you in the eye. He has his minions do his dirty work.
Avoid this place, and avoid these people.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
What PS Guthrie thinks of Caoimh
HI, home again, jiggidy jig, below is my reply, sorry didn't have time to put it in letter form.
I'm slowly getting my act together to move baback to Oz, sometime late in the year.
More later,
Cheers,
Paul
To Who it May Concern,
following are answers to your questions regarding Mr Adrian Keefe
1. I have know my friend Adrian Keefe since 1962, I consider him to be of the highest integrity.
2. Adrian's greatest strengths are his intelligence, intellectual curiosity, tolerance and understanding of other cultures
3. Although I would not describe it as a weakness he can be introspective at times
4. Adrian reacts to constructive criticism in a positive way, sees it a a tool for growth, he does not have an obstructive ego.
5. Adrian is very adaptable, he flourishes when challenged and enjoys exploring newness.
6. I know Adrian to be goal oriented and dedicate to achieving results.
7. I consider Adrian to be a good leader and manager, he demonstrated this when he expanded a small trade store in the Papua New Guinea highlands into a multi million dollar trading complex, Further he demonstrated these qualities when he built schools in both Botswana and Papua New Guinea to expand educational opportunities for the local people, a remarkable achievement, a demonstration of his talent, single minded dedication to the task at hand, and his excellent management and organizational skills.
8. Adrian could not have achieved what he did in Botswana and Papua New Guinea without strong organizational skills, consistent character, strong sense of purpose, cultural sensitivity, and dedication to the job in hand. We knew Adrian could always be relied upon to finish the job, this was a certainty.
9. I would consider myself fortunate indeed to avail myself of Adrian Keefe's services in almost any undertaking, his positive attitude, sense of purpose, organizational and creative problem solving skills, his ability to work with others and to create a positive productive working environment are to be admired. He brings out the best in those around him.
Sincerely,
Paul Guthrie
I'm slowly getting my act together to move baback to Oz, sometime late in the year.
More later,
Cheers,
Paul
To Who it May Concern,
following are answers to your questions regarding Mr Adrian Keefe
1. I have know my friend Adrian Keefe since 1962, I consider him to be of the highest integrity.
2. Adrian's greatest strengths are his intelligence, intellectual curiosity, tolerance and understanding of other cultures
3. Although I would not describe it as a weakness he can be introspective at times
4. Adrian reacts to constructive criticism in a positive way, sees it a a tool for growth, he does not have an obstructive ego.
5. Adrian is very adaptable, he flourishes when challenged and enjoys exploring newness.
6. I know Adrian to be goal oriented and dedicate to achieving results.
7. I consider Adrian to be a good leader and manager, he demonstrated this when he expanded a small trade store in the Papua New Guinea highlands into a multi million dollar trading complex, Further he demonstrated these qualities when he built schools in both Botswana and Papua New Guinea to expand educational opportunities for the local people, a remarkable achievement, a demonstration of his talent, single minded dedication to the task at hand, and his excellent management and organizational skills.
8. Adrian could not have achieved what he did in Botswana and Papua New Guinea without strong organizational skills, consistent character, strong sense of purpose, cultural sensitivity, and dedication to the job in hand. We knew Adrian could always be relied upon to finish the job, this was a certainty.
9. I would consider myself fortunate indeed to avail myself of Adrian Keefe's services in almost any undertaking, his positive attitude, sense of purpose, organizational and creative problem solving skills, his ability to work with others and to create a positive productive working environment are to be admired. He brings out the best in those around him.
Sincerely,
Paul Guthrie
Monday, May 18, 2009
Wang Quan: Captain Queeg of Huangshi
School and Recruiter Reviews
International College Huangshi China
By:Adrian Keefe
Date: 17 May 2009
This so called college posits itself as being part of Hubei Normal University. It isn't. It is a private and fraudulently run institution that uses 'foreign teachers' as a marketing ploy to get optimistic parents to enrol their under-educated kids in the hope the result will be a degree from an overseas university.
My wife and I were contacted by a woman who calls herself Kelly [Xu Yan] and acts as the friendly face of a Captain Queeg character who sits nehind a closed door with the word Principal on it. One lie after another. No promises were fulfilled after we travelled from Australia to Huangshi in Hubei Province. I was initially led to a dungeon in the sky and told it was my accommodation. I refused it. My dogs would not be comfortable there I told Kelly. I was then put in a motel with leaking toilet that was never fixed. After that we were put into a flat outside the campus. A tiny elephant lived above us. We could never sleep. The fridge, washing machine, kettle etc didn't work The bed was a strip of wood with a sheet over it. The TV didn't work. Flying ants filled the flat. Construction began at 3am outside the flat.
The majority of the students couldn't speak any English, yet we were expected to teach them business management and half the classroom time was devoted to diary writing. The students hadn't a clue 5and this so called college couldn't give a care.
I was told to tell the college when I thought it needed advice. I did. They listened with smiles. Nothing was done. I resigned, gave more than a month's notice and was summarily sacked with no pay.
I saw a law firm. This law firm called itself Humanism Lawyers. They were in league with the college. Nothing was done. All were corruptly involved with one another.
Wang Quan is the name of the Principal of this International College of Hubei Normal University. He is the Captain Queeg of Academics. He doesn't look you in the eye. He has his minions do his dirty work.
Avoid this place, and avoid these people.
International College Huangshi China
By:Adrian Keefe
Date: 17 May 2009
This so called college posits itself as being part of Hubei Normal University. It isn't. It is a private and fraudulently run institution that uses 'foreign teachers' as a marketing ploy to get optimistic parents to enrol their under-educated kids in the hope the result will be a degree from an overseas university.
My wife and I were contacted by a woman who calls herself Kelly [Xu Yan] and acts as the friendly face of a Captain Queeg character who sits nehind a closed door with the word Principal on it. One lie after another. No promises were fulfilled after we travelled from Australia to Huangshi in Hubei Province. I was initially led to a dungeon in the sky and told it was my accommodation. I refused it. My dogs would not be comfortable there I told Kelly. I was then put in a motel with leaking toilet that was never fixed. After that we were put into a flat outside the campus. A tiny elephant lived above us. We could never sleep. The fridge, washing machine, kettle etc didn't work The bed was a strip of wood with a sheet over it. The TV didn't work. Flying ants filled the flat. Construction began at 3am outside the flat.
The majority of the students couldn't speak any English, yet we were expected to teach them business management and half the classroom time was devoted to diary writing. The students hadn't a clue 5and this so called college couldn't give a care.
I was told to tell the college when I thought it needed advice. I did. They listened with smiles. Nothing was done. I resigned, gave more than a month's notice and was summarily sacked with no pay.
I saw a law firm. This law firm called itself Humanism Lawyers. They were in league with the college. Nothing was done. All were corruptly involved with one another.
Wang Quan is the name of the Principal of this International College of Hubei Normal University. He is the Captain Queeg of Academics. He doesn't look you in the eye. He has his minions do his dirty work.
Avoid this place, and avoid these people.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
RANE: Most compelling work in years
ABC FORUM ONLINE
From: Moderator 11/12/2002 1:27:04 PM
Subject: Your 2002 Best Books post id: 3053
Discussion is now open for your best books of the year. Please add your recommendations below, and remember to include the name of the author and publisher too.
: Jeffrey Millard 25/12/2002 8:55:33 AM
Subject: re: Your 2002 Best Books post id: 3067
The E Book 'RANE' by Adrian Keefe is the most compelling work I have seen in years. Horrible characters and vicious theme but it is extremely well written and I couldn't put it down. A graphic illustration of the Stolen generations but in a graphically savage manner.
From: Moderator 11/12/2002 1:27:04 PM
Subject: Your 2002 Best Books post id: 3053
Discussion is now open for your best books of the year. Please add your recommendations below, and remember to include the name of the author and publisher too.
: Jeffrey Millard 25/12/2002 8:55:33 AM
Subject: re: Your 2002 Best Books post id: 3067
The E Book 'RANE' by Adrian Keefe is the most compelling work I have seen in years. Horrible characters and vicious theme but it is extremely well written and I couldn't put it down. A graphic illustration of the Stolen generations but in a graphically savage manner.
Sideburns: The Tribal Australian
http://www.smh.com.au/
>Adrian Keefe: The Logies!</span> I am amazed at how tribal Australian TV viewers and others really are. Take a look at sideburns...even bald men wear sideburns. Little patches of hair in front of the ears. Rove's haircut. Would anyone willingly wear such a ridiculous style if it were not for the tribal mind? Follow the leader ... except we do never know who the leader is. We just follow."
>Adrian Keefe: The Logies!</span> I am amazed at how tribal Australian TV viewers and others really are. Take a look at sideburns...even bald men wear sideburns. Little patches of hair in front of the ears. Rove's haircut. Would anyone willingly wear such a ridiculous style if it were not for the tribal mind? Follow the leader ... except we do never know who the leader is. We just follow."
Howard's Complicity in War Crimes
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875
28 July 2004
Issue No. 700
Reader's corner
Howard's complicity
Sir-- Consensus is growing in Australia that our Prime Minister John "Coward" Howard should be tried for war crimes.
That a grudge against Saddam Hussein by George W Bush is construed by others as a legitimate cause for invasion and pre-emptive war, is sufficient indication that the invasion of Iraq was morally and politically indefensible. Bush was quoted as saying that "Saddam tried to kill my Daddy" and Coward Howard, as he is known in Australia, was known to be fully supportive of this emotional claptrap. Thus, the invasion and terrible suffering for Iraqis.
Australian Muslims and non-Muslims abhor this conflict; only fools and thieves relish this war.
Adrian Keefe
Tabulam
Australia
28 July 2004
Issue No. 700
Reader's corner
Howard's complicity
Sir-- Consensus is growing in Australia that our Prime Minister John "Coward" Howard should be tried for war crimes.
That a grudge against Saddam Hussein by George W Bush is construed by others as a legitimate cause for invasion and pre-emptive war, is sufficient indication that the invasion of Iraq was morally and politically indefensible. Bush was quoted as saying that "Saddam tried to kill my Daddy" and Coward Howard, as he is known in Australia, was known to be fully supportive of this emotional claptrap. Thus, the invasion and terrible suffering for Iraqis.
Australian Muslims and non-Muslims abhor this conflict; only fools and thieves relish this war.
Adrian Keefe
Tabulam
Australia
Deakin University Alumni
Deakin University
Alumni home
Deakin home > Alumni
Adrian Keefe (Master of Arts 1994 and Bachelor of Arts 1992) who has spent the last few years teaching in Asia.
’Apart from growing older and laughing more and more, I've been teaching in China for five years, a year in Oman and recently in Bangladesh.’
’I have shied away from the cities and concentrated on the rural areas and have been rewarded with the songs and merriment of humble farmers and fisher folk - could not have done it without Deakin !’ Mr Keefe said.
Alumni home
Deakin home > Alumni
Adrian Keefe (Master of Arts 1994 and Bachelor of Arts 1992) who has spent the last few years teaching in Asia.
’Apart from growing older and laughing more and more, I've been teaching in China for five years, a year in Oman and recently in Bangladesh.’
’I have shied away from the cities and concentrated on the rural areas and have been rewarded with the songs and merriment of humble farmers and fisher folk - could not have done it without Deakin !’ Mr Keefe said.
Coober Pedy News 31 October 2003
Coober Pedy News No. 43
31 October 2003
Letters to Editor
Archived copy
Hi
We urge Australians to replace plastic bags with hand-made Papua New Guinea bilums.
This helps our environment and it encourages a bilum-led economy for Indigenous Peoples of PNG.
Instead of plying Papua New Guinea with aid money, we Australians can buy bilums and invigorate a home-based industry in the villages of our closest neighbour.
Cheers
Adrian Keefe
Replace plastic bags with PNG bilums
http://bilumspng.tk/
http://bilumspng.topcities.com/
31 October 2003
Letters to Editor
Archived copy
Hi
We urge Australians to replace plastic bags with hand-made Papua New Guinea bilums.
This helps our environment and it encourages a bilum-led economy for Indigenous Peoples of PNG.
Instead of plying Papua New Guinea with aid money, we Australians can buy bilums and invigorate a home-based industry in the villages of our closest neighbour.
Cheers
Adrian Keefe
Replace plastic bags with PNG bilums
http://bilumspng.tk/
http://bilumspng.topcities.com/
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Channel Nine
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How the Nine Pins have collapsed!
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Slight Essence of Socialism among Greedy
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Like fungus on old shit
Hi Mario
You know that I was a platoon commander during the Vietnam War period and that I was a specialist in ambush and dirty war. I became a so-called expert in guerrilla warfare and was appointed battalion instructor at our famous JTC [Jungle Warfare Centre] at Canungra. The Yanks reckoned we had it right when it came to dealing with the enemy.
I wrote a thesis on Mao Zedong so was to be able to understand the nature of the war game of the Vietnamese. That research taught me much about the Chinese. And that was in 68/9/70.
The Art of War by Sun Tsu is a classic and it still remains the bible for indirect warfare.
While Europeans and Americans followed Jomini and Clauswitz, the Eastern people followed Sun Tsu. It remains so! Subterfuge is the name of the game and I learned to play it long ago. I play it well with these people. So far my smile has been pasted on my face longer than they have had theirs.
Starting university at age 45 had its benefits, Mario. By that age I was able to remain at my books longer than I could have at age 18-22. I am now 64 and do 60 pushups each morning, just to keep my pectorals in shape. Today I shoved three young Chinese back as I was emerging from a lift. It was easy. They fell backward as if they were cheese sandwiches. They were entering the lift before we emerged. You know how they are; no manners, no fucking common sense. I still the idiots with my eyes in class and they think I am a devil. They laugh when I am humourous and they play my game. But when we are out of the classroom they return to form and cling together like fungus on old shit.
My novel RANE spells my philosophy and I hold nothing sacred. You and I and your family [bless them] have a reality that is refreshing and I admire you for the way your offspring behave. If you knew our [Caron and mine] five kids you would also say the same to me and to Caron.
If you could achieve a miracle and Caron and I end up in your world I would be happy as Larry. I am sick of this putty life and I need a bit of cement.
Keep well
Adrian
You know that I was a platoon commander during the Vietnam War period and that I was a specialist in ambush and dirty war. I became a so-called expert in guerrilla warfare and was appointed battalion instructor at our famous JTC [Jungle Warfare Centre] at Canungra. The Yanks reckoned we had it right when it came to dealing with the enemy.
I wrote a thesis on Mao Zedong so was to be able to understand the nature of the war game of the Vietnamese. That research taught me much about the Chinese. And that was in 68/9/70.
The Art of War by Sun Tsu is a classic and it still remains the bible for indirect warfare.
While Europeans and Americans followed Jomini and Clauswitz, the Eastern people followed Sun Tsu. It remains so! Subterfuge is the name of the game and I learned to play it long ago. I play it well with these people. So far my smile has been pasted on my face longer than they have had theirs.
Starting university at age 45 had its benefits, Mario. By that age I was able to remain at my books longer than I could have at age 18-22. I am now 64 and do 60 pushups each morning, just to keep my pectorals in shape. Today I shoved three young Chinese back as I was emerging from a lift. It was easy. They fell backward as if they were cheese sandwiches. They were entering the lift before we emerged. You know how they are; no manners, no fucking common sense. I still the idiots with my eyes in class and they think I am a devil. They laugh when I am humourous and they play my game. But when we are out of the classroom they return to form and cling together like fungus on old shit.
My novel RANE spells my philosophy and I hold nothing sacred. You and I and your family [bless them] have a reality that is refreshing and I admire you for the way your offspring behave. If you knew our [Caron and mine] five kids you would also say the same to me and to Caron.
If you could achieve a miracle and Caron and I end up in your world I would be happy as Larry. I am sick of this putty life and I need a bit of cement.
Keep well
Adrian
Monday, May 4, 2009
International College: Principal's lack of principle
Hi Jurina
Gee it's good to see your name on my screen.
For a while I thought maybe you'd given up on us. This biz with the
transferability from Hubei to Guangdong ... it seemed to have
diminished our [Caron's and mine] prospects of ever settling down with
you in Baiyun.
We have responses from four sets of law firms; all four of them point
to our being served a huge plate of injustice by the folk at the
International College here. We have met with the senior lawyer of the
local Huangshi law firm and now we have our original contracts and are
able to proceed via the Chinese governmental authorities in squaring
with this college. Furthermore, a Guangzhou law firm is also acting
for us and is sending a letter of demand for proper payment and breach
monies [RMB17000 in all] to the college principal.
Concomitantly I am making alternative arrangements to return home to
Australia if all this doesn't work out. If it does, and I am assured
it will, then the only obstacle is this 'letter of reference' which
you tell me is necessary for you to continue with our contract with
you. It is a moot point that this college should hold this
transferability over our heads.
So you see, Jurina, we have achieved much this past few days; but we
need to have assurances that we can proceed to English School without
hassle even if this college holds back with this letter of reference,
seeing that it should be judged in breach of contract and in breach of
Chinese law.
Let me know further what your province thinks of that, please, as I
need to go one way or the other, to you or to home.
Cheers
Adrian
Gee it's good to see your name on my screen.
For a while I thought maybe you'd given up on us. This biz with the
transferability from Hubei to Guangdong ... it seemed to have
diminished our [Caron's and mine] prospects of ever settling down with
you in Baiyun.
We have responses from four sets of law firms; all four of them point
to our being served a huge plate of injustice by the folk at the
International College here. We have met with the senior lawyer of the
local Huangshi law firm and now we have our original contracts and are
able to proceed via the Chinese governmental authorities in squaring
with this college. Furthermore, a Guangzhou law firm is also acting
for us and is sending a letter of demand for proper payment and breach
monies [RMB17000 in all] to the college principal.
Concomitantly I am making alternative arrangements to return home to
Australia if all this doesn't work out. If it does, and I am assured
it will, then the only obstacle is this 'letter of reference' which
you tell me is necessary for you to continue with our contract with
you. It is a moot point that this college should hold this
transferability over our heads.
So you see, Jurina, we have achieved much this past few days; but we
need to have assurances that we can proceed to English School without
hassle even if this college holds back with this letter of reference,
seeing that it should be judged in breach of contract and in breach of
Chinese law.
Let me know further what your province thinks of that, please, as I
need to go one way or the other, to you or to home.
Cheers
Adrian
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Letter to Herbert in China
Zao shang hao!
I enjoy our little correspondence, Herbert. Sometimes I feel we have
something in common and that is a fair understanding of our world of
education in China. But when you mention Oral English, I know you
don't really know me or have not digested my background sufficiently.
I do not teach oral English. I think I have progressed far beyond that
stage.
I am a specialist in our language. I am a writer. I correct the
English of professors. It's as simple as that.
One doesn't drop from DOS, Course Director, Teacher Trainer to a mere
recent undergraduate looking for a holiday in China! My age belies my
energy, my good health, my abilities with students. If your Dean
hasn't the strength of purpose actually to look at my resume and
realise my value then we both are wasting our time. Your Dean seems
not to be as perspicacious as he should be. Otherwise he would invest
in me.
It's time I went home to Australia. China is emerging not only as a
true superpower but its arrogance is becoming stifling.
I regret that even you, Herbert, have displayed this odious trait. We
love China. We hate seeing it becoming somethink akin to America, but
it's happening all too fast.
Zai jian
Adrian
I enjoy our little correspondence, Herbert. Sometimes I feel we have
something in common and that is a fair understanding of our world of
education in China. But when you mention Oral English, I know you
don't really know me or have not digested my background sufficiently.
I do not teach oral English. I think I have progressed far beyond that
stage.
I am a specialist in our language. I am a writer. I correct the
English of professors. It's as simple as that.
One doesn't drop from DOS, Course Director, Teacher Trainer to a mere
recent undergraduate looking for a holiday in China! My age belies my
energy, my good health, my abilities with students. If your Dean
hasn't the strength of purpose actually to look at my resume and
realise my value then we both are wasting our time. Your Dean seems
not to be as perspicacious as he should be. Otherwise he would invest
in me.
It's time I went home to Australia. China is emerging not only as a
true superpower but its arrogance is becoming stifling.
I regret that even you, Herbert, have displayed this odious trait. We
love China. We hate seeing it becoming somethink akin to America, but
it's happening all too fast.
Zai jian
Adrian
Friday, May 1, 2009
Who is this Captain Queeg?
Thanks Gay but am not asking you for help but am informing you of what a rotten situation I've put us in. No fault of mine but this Captain Queeg of a college boss is a closet queen who sits in his office and has his minions perform his odious and psychotic acts of retribution. From the start I picked him for a goose and from day one our life together [Careon's and mine] has been a constant drama, moving from stage to stage, sidestepping broken promises and ethically dreadful performances that are set to deprive parents of fees that are paid to the college in the forlorn hope that their hopelessly undereducated sons and daughters may some day get to study in a foreign university. It is simply fraudulent.
We had set ourselves up expecting to be here for some time and now we have been robbed not only of our salary but so much else..we have all this gear that we cannot ship out back to Oz and cannot move to another university cos of the law here which gives our lives to this stinking college.
We had set ourselves up expecting to be here for some time and now we have been robbed not only of our salary but so much else..we have all this gear that we cannot ship out back to Oz and cannot move to another university cos of the law here which gives our lives to this stinking college.
Things of family
Hi Mario
I thought you may have rushed your reading, and I was to have told you the anguish of having my sister and her husband on death row back in 1993. I was doing my Masters that year and I don't know how I managed to finish it with that hanging about my neck..no pun! Gay was acquitted and Mandela commuted Clive' death sentence to life. We as a family have been suffering the distant trauma since then. They are family and Gay and I are sister and brother; our mother died from cancer when I was small and Gay became my mum, so to speak. It was she who invited me to RSA in 66 and because of Gay Caron and I are together.
Yes, we are close and I met Clive in 87 during a brief visit to see my son Chris.
I think you may have been on the wrong track because of your reading; I am so staunchly anti-racist I devoted seven years of post grad research into racism. My novel RANE is about racism and its scourge. I studied the hate groups of the USA, Israel, South Africa and our own despicable past in Australia.
Caron and I risked twenty years gaol in South African prisons by illegally taking my son Chris from RSA to Oz in 1977. Long story there and the courts sent him back to RSA. I did it to remove him from a racist environment in RSA. I had him born in Oz in 1973 so as to give him an Oz birth certificate and not a South African one. I foresaw the collapse of apartheid and the stigma of being South African during those hideous times.
Our [yours and mine] knowledge of China and the Chinese is not racist but realist; realistic of their inherent racism, not of ours.
You may also have mis-read my resume. Indeed, you have drawn a conclusion far wide of the mark. I am so non-specialist that having no special training or experience has been the bane of my working life; so much so that in 1989 I was unemployable because of it. I then began school again, having left school at age 15 to join the navy. So from 89 to 01 I did full time university, all of it behind a computer, not going to one single on campus lecture. Caron has done the same with twelve years devoted to off campus property study. We moved fourteen times, buying and selling our place of residence to pay for our lives cos there was no tax on profit from selling one's own home. We travelled from southern Oz to the far north and back again, doing this, studying and it was during this time that one rainy morning at 5.23 I heard on the radio that Clive had been arrested for Chris Hani's murder. Walus already had been arrested days earlier. Then the big shock came later with Gay's arrest. The trials and the acquittal of Gay and the death sentence for Clive. I read the complete trial transcripts... miles and miles of pages.
Loyalty is an honourable trait and we as a family have remained loyal to Gay and Clive, despite the wide differences we have on things of race. No one wants a sister or her husband hanged. It is an extreme emotional thing. And we all have shared in the grief, no matter what.
My son Chris is and has been back in RSA since the courts returned him there in 77 and he came to Oz in 93 the year of Hani's murder and since then I haven't seen him but have remained close through the magic of telecommunications.
I despise the notion of RSA and its hypocrisy and the only notion of returning is to have Caron reunite with Rita and Pete Snyman. But I don't think that is to be now as this present drama has robbed us of this chance. I wanted it to be, to also see Chris my son, to see Gay and Clive, and to know that after over a quarter of a century Caron finally did meet again with her SA family.
Conspiracy? Mario, that word is a con. There was no conspiracy. That I do know. I am family, so is my brother and he is a lawyer in Sydney. Clive was shocked when Walus killed Hani but has stood by Walus ever since, even to the point of execution. This you should know!!!!!!
Walus took it upon himself to start the revolution. It was the talk at braais, at dinners, all over conservative South Africa at the time. It was the atmosphere of Eugene Terreblanche and all those idiots dressed in Boer costumes. Everyone was caught up in it. If it were a conspiracy then half of white South Africa was involved. Everyone feared Hani. Most of the ANC feared that murderous thug. If you knew of his activities in the ANC training camps in Zambia you would understand why I did not shed a tear at his murder. He was himself a brutal murdering thug and was responsible for the deaths of perhaps hundreds of fellow ANC members and deserters. Hani was the Mao Zedong of the ANC and even Mandela and Mbeki did not want Hani to be the El Supremo of the ANC. They hated one another.
I told you I had training in guerrilla warfare; that included intelligence and I was privy to much Int during those days. Conspiracy? That is a joke. It is still a part of the SACP ethos to prolong this adulation of Hani and the perpetuation of Hani's credo to keep the SACP together as a viable force in RSA politics, especially after the collapse of Communism in the European world.
I admire Clive for his loyalty to poor stupid Walus. Never once has Clive put that clown down. Everyone gave one another guns in those days. During the 70s I carried one. I knew the carnage that the communists would create to gain power...through the gun, as Mao once or millions of times said. It is strange that today Zuma is to be the next president. He still sings of murder at his rallies, dances to death, as it were. But he at least has visited Clive twice, met with Gay, actually practises reconciliation! And he is an enemy of Mugabe and that makes Zuma my friend. It is Mugabe who needs the proverbial bullet these days and I am surprised he is still alive.
I was in Rhodesia during the early 70s, working all over the place [never mind the CV] and I personally saw the ravages of Mugabe's actions against his fellow Rhodesians. He is the most evil man in modern African history. And Hani was just the same.
But in saying all this, nothing justifies murder. Nothing. And that includes the electric chair, state executions, assassinations et al. China and the USA head the world in this field and both nations should be condemned for it.
I thought you may have rushed your reading, and I was to have told you the anguish of having my sister and her husband on death row back in 1993. I was doing my Masters that year and I don't know how I managed to finish it with that hanging about my neck..no pun! Gay was acquitted and Mandela commuted Clive' death sentence to life. We as a family have been suffering the distant trauma since then. They are family and Gay and I are sister and brother; our mother died from cancer when I was small and Gay became my mum, so to speak. It was she who invited me to RSA in 66 and because of Gay Caron and I are together.
Yes, we are close and I met Clive in 87 during a brief visit to see my son Chris.
I think you may have been on the wrong track because of your reading; I am so staunchly anti-racist I devoted seven years of post grad research into racism. My novel RANE is about racism and its scourge. I studied the hate groups of the USA, Israel, South Africa and our own despicable past in Australia.
Caron and I risked twenty years gaol in South African prisons by illegally taking my son Chris from RSA to Oz in 1977. Long story there and the courts sent him back to RSA. I did it to remove him from a racist environment in RSA. I had him born in Oz in 1973 so as to give him an Oz birth certificate and not a South African one. I foresaw the collapse of apartheid and the stigma of being South African during those hideous times.
Our [yours and mine] knowledge of China and the Chinese is not racist but realist; realistic of their inherent racism, not of ours.
You may also have mis-read my resume. Indeed, you have drawn a conclusion far wide of the mark. I am so non-specialist that having no special training or experience has been the bane of my working life; so much so that in 1989 I was unemployable because of it. I then began school again, having left school at age 15 to join the navy. So from 89 to 01 I did full time university, all of it behind a computer, not going to one single on campus lecture. Caron has done the same with twelve years devoted to off campus property study. We moved fourteen times, buying and selling our place of residence to pay for our lives cos there was no tax on profit from selling one's own home. We travelled from southern Oz to the far north and back again, doing this, studying and it was during this time that one rainy morning at 5.23 I heard on the radio that Clive had been arrested for Chris Hani's murder. Walus already had been arrested days earlier. Then the big shock came later with Gay's arrest. The trials and the acquittal of Gay and the death sentence for Clive. I read the complete trial transcripts... miles and miles of pages.
Loyalty is an honourable trait and we as a family have remained loyal to Gay and Clive, despite the wide differences we have on things of race. No one wants a sister or her husband hanged. It is an extreme emotional thing. And we all have shared in the grief, no matter what.
My son Chris is and has been back in RSA since the courts returned him there in 77 and he came to Oz in 93 the year of Hani's murder and since then I haven't seen him but have remained close through the magic of telecommunications.
I despise the notion of RSA and its hypocrisy and the only notion of returning is to have Caron reunite with Rita and Pete Snyman. But I don't think that is to be now as this present drama has robbed us of this chance. I wanted it to be, to also see Chris my son, to see Gay and Clive, and to know that after over a quarter of a century Caron finally did meet again with her SA family.
Conspiracy? Mario, that word is a con. There was no conspiracy. That I do know. I am family, so is my brother and he is a lawyer in Sydney. Clive was shocked when Walus killed Hani but has stood by Walus ever since, even to the point of execution. This you should know!!!!!!
Walus took it upon himself to start the revolution. It was the talk at braais, at dinners, all over conservative South Africa at the time. It was the atmosphere of Eugene Terreblanche and all those idiots dressed in Boer costumes. Everyone was caught up in it. If it were a conspiracy then half of white South Africa was involved. Everyone feared Hani. Most of the ANC feared that murderous thug. If you knew of his activities in the ANC training camps in Zambia you would understand why I did not shed a tear at his murder. He was himself a brutal murdering thug and was responsible for the deaths of perhaps hundreds of fellow ANC members and deserters. Hani was the Mao Zedong of the ANC and even Mandela and Mbeki did not want Hani to be the El Supremo of the ANC. They hated one another.
I told you I had training in guerrilla warfare; that included intelligence and I was privy to much Int during those days. Conspiracy? That is a joke. It is still a part of the SACP ethos to prolong this adulation of Hani and the perpetuation of Hani's credo to keep the SACP together as a viable force in RSA politics, especially after the collapse of Communism in the European world.
I admire Clive for his loyalty to poor stupid Walus. Never once has Clive put that clown down. Everyone gave one another guns in those days. During the 70s I carried one. I knew the carnage that the communists would create to gain power...through the gun, as Mao once or millions of times said. It is strange that today Zuma is to be the next president. He still sings of murder at his rallies, dances to death, as it were. But he at least has visited Clive twice, met with Gay, actually practises reconciliation! And he is an enemy of Mugabe and that makes Zuma my friend. It is Mugabe who needs the proverbial bullet these days and I am surprised he is still alive.
I was in Rhodesia during the early 70s, working all over the place [never mind the CV] and I personally saw the ravages of Mugabe's actions against his fellow Rhodesians. He is the most evil man in modern African history. And Hani was just the same.
But in saying all this, nothing justifies murder. Nothing. And that includes the electric chair, state executions, assassinations et al. China and the USA head the world in this field and both nations should be condemned for it.
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