[A few weeks back I put up the story and news clipping saying that my brother was probably the youngest ever member of the Rhodesian SAS.

I passed it on to Colonel John Redfern of the Rhodesian Association.

Then Peter Maunder, Secretary of the SAS Association of Southern Africa asked where my brother is now. He also wrote:-

“Thank you for forwarding the information to me.

Yes, Tpr Lamprecht Cornelius J could well have been our youngest member to qualify. I remember him well however he did not stay on after the break-up of the Federation. Any further information you might get as to his whereabouts would be helpful.”

My brother may now be at retirement age, but in recent years he also did a lot of travelling all across Africa – alone (typical SAS style wouldn’t you say?) – along routes considered too dangerous even for African Transport companies. He made a good amount of money doing this. But eventually he called it quits because he says Africa is becoming just too dangerous! He saw the early days of de-Colonisation, and he’s been in many countries all across Africa south of the equator and he just writes it off. The last I heard, my brother reckoned we whites must just get the hell out of Africa – there’s bugger all left – and no hope for us whites.

However, these days I think we whites should just start sticking together and start working on one concept alone: Achieving unity among ourselves, and preparing to carve a country for ourselves out of the Post Colonial failures and chaos. We need a place to belong to. We don’t belong in Europe. Our links to Europe are as non-existant as those of Whites in America. We came here to a continent which could be a land of milk and honey – if you have the vision and drive. The blacks have neither – that’s why they’re all running away. But we whites have the imagination and intelligence to see the possibilities. We made something of Africa before and we can make something of it again. But this time, we must keep a portion of it for ourselves. No more colonialism. No more Apartheid – just INDEPENDENCE and self-rule – the Dream of Afrikaners and the dream of Rhodesians! The blacks can do what they would like, but we would be happy to support Black Tribes who want their own independence. It is time for the redrawing of those old Colonial borders into a completely new, “Tribal system”. Jan]