tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048488460945517673.post7444980019789930683..comments2023-12-07T16:02:04.056-08:00Comments on Woza Mark: 2009. Avon River Jubilee Walk and Avon Estuary, ChristchurchMark JS Esslemonthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749586039279026148noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048488460945517673.post-84513280049837157332015-11-06T12:03:05.599-08:002015-11-06T12:03:05.599-08:00Gave Deb Donnel permission to publish Pleasant Poi...Gave Deb Donnel permission to publish Pleasant Point Yacht Club, blog pic in her 2015 book, Christchurch, Keswin Publishing, Ltd.Mark JS Esslemonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05749586039279026148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048488460945517673.post-6981235793725495942014-08-14T16:25:19.589-07:002014-08-14T16:25:19.589-07:00Gave local author Deb Donnell permission to publis...Gave local author Deb Donnell permission to publish 2 blog pics in her book as follows: Amelia Rogers Reserve & pre quakes, Pleasant Point Yacht Club, view from Bridge St Bridge.Mark JS Esslemonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05749586039279026148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048488460945517673.post-1096119620626621312009-07-14T20:58:25.960-07:002009-07-14T20:58:25.960-07:00My 2 comments to a Yank on another SA blog who tho...My 2 comments to a Yank on another SA blog who thought ANC "guerillas" during apartheid hadn't attacked civilians in shopping malls: <br /><br />1. For someone who pretends to be an academic, you really are a stupid prick!<br /><br />If you live near a decent library find the ANC's 5 volume Truth and Reconciliation Report. There you'll find shopping mall bombing reports to enlighten your profound ignorance. Try Amanzimtoti's Sanlam Centre limpet mine bombing by Sibusiso Zondo, and Durban Montclair Road Pick 'n Pay bombing for a start.<br /><br />Try Durban's Esplanade car bombing near John Ross House, where my wife worked at a bomb-targeted pre-school.<br /><br />The Durban beachfront bombing you referred to was Magoos Bar, bombed by coloured McBride, who was later affirmative action rewarded for murder by the ANC by being appointed chief of East Rand Metropolitan Police. McBride showed his true character by drunken driving incidents. What a freedom fighter!<br /><br />Go bullshit the families of murdered South Africans! You'll get short shrift from them...<br /><br />2. As stated, read the 5 volume TRC Commission Report. You have lots to learn about SAfs you love / hate.<br /><br />The Durban Esplanade car bombing, Indian murdered, was in early 1984. You need to do serious reading to discuss such matters with South Africans who lived through decades of bombings, murders and bloodshed.<br /><br />Wake up, read, and wean yourself from bias. While you're at it, look at the mayhem caused by PAC and especially Ncamazana brothers in and around East London, King Williams Town and through to Cape Town around 1993-94 in "total annihilation" attacks (Ncamazana's words) on civilians.<br /><br />Although there were many military and cop targets, brave Ncamazana freedom fighters only targeted civilians eg.: Highgate Hotel, East London; Mdantsane Bahai Church and other churches; minibus near Nahoon Dam; bus attack on Da Gama Textile workers, Mdantsane; restaurant; King Williams Town Golf Club...<br /><br />TRC's Archbishop Tutu refused amnesty for the Ncamazana brothers, but Thabo Mbeki later gave a presidential pardon to a Ncamazana (after Ncamazana escaped gaol twice). Two weeks after the pardon Ncamazana shot / murdered an East London shopkeeper.<br /><br />Your freedom fighters... If you don't have access to the TRC Reports, Google them, or Google The Herald, or Cape Times, or Daily Dispatch articles.Mark JS Esslemonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05749586039279026148noreply@blogger.com