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I must confess a prejudice: I never liked the South African=born Bruce Mackenzie. He came to fore fighting for white colonist rights and the next thing you know he is flying the black nationalist flag. Something very fish I thought. Excerpt reproduced with the kind permission of the de Souza family Forward to Independence Fitz de Souza My Memoirs is available from Amazon Books In an Introduction to Fitz’s book, Victoria Brittain (the former Guardian correspondent, author and playwright mentions: A fourth assassination, of Bruce Mackenzie, the Minister of Agriculture, a South African-born former RAF pilot in the Second World War came from outside and well illustrates the ruthless geopolitical high stakes world that did not suit de Souza. Mackenzie was killed when his airplane blew up over the Ngong Hills with a bomb placed in a present from Idi Amin of Uganda as payback for Mackenzie’s role in Kenya’s assistance to the Israelis’ ending of the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis. An...

1 April 2019 NEW APOSTOLIC NUNCIO APPOINTED TO NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa as Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand and Apostolic Delegate to the countries of the Pacific. Archbishop Rugambwa was born in Bukoba, Tanzania in 1957, ordained a priest in 1986 and Archbishop in 2010. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1991 and has served in Nunciatures in Panama, Republic of Congo, Pakistan, New Zealand, Indonesia, Angola and Honduras. For a period of time he was also Undersecretary of the Holy See’s Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. He replaces Archbishop Martin Krebs who last year was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay. President of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, Bishop Patrick Dunn said of the announcement, “we’re delighted with the appointment of Archbishop Rugambwa and warmly welcome him back to our shores in his new role. Our prayers are with him as h...

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOAN COMMUNITY WHO SERVED IN KENYA                   By Mervyn Maciel (For obvious reasons, this account is written more from a personal angle) Some years ago, (nearly seven decades ago, the Secretary of the Kenya Administration Club in the U.K. had asked Mervyn Maciel to write an article on what happened to our community who moved to the UK from Kenya. The article is reproduced below: Most of the Goans who, like me, came to the U.K. after UHURU in the mid and late sixties, encountered no difficulty in finding jobs either in the Civil Service or Private sector. Those from the Provincial Administration like Francis da Lima, M.B.E. worked  for the Customs & Excise, the late Abe Almeida was with the Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard, Caje Simoes found a job in that much-hated of government departments – the Income Tax department!   Having worked for 20...

The King of Ruaraka, Nairobi An excerpt from Forward to Independence Fitz de Souza My Memoirs . Reproduced with the kind permission of the de Souza family. Available on Amazon Books JM Nazareth QC and Francis D’Silva aka Baba Dogo (little father) Many of the inhabitants of Ruaraka ( on the outskirts of Nairobi ) were impoverished whites, and Francis D’Silva (Cyprian Fernandes: I think he was native of either Majorda or Utorda), a Goan, owned quite a large area of land here. I had first met him when I had stayed in River Road with Dr Dias, who was a good friend of his. D’Silva had an English friend called Stanley Good, on whom he depended totally. Good, who had been in the army in India, would attend auctions on D’Silva’s behalf and look out for old farms to buy up from the poorer English. These tended to be smallish poultry farms – chickens, geese and turkeys – and were also where some of the English men kept their mistresses, usually African, sometimes Seychel...

Kenya Goans An excerpt from Forward to Independence Fitz de Souza My Memoirs . Reproduced with the kind permission of the de Souza family. Available on Amazon Books. From its inception, Nairobi and its new population were to be divided by the British along racial lines. Governor John Ainsworth, who had arrived as a young man in the early 1900s, split Nairobi into seven districts, making no provision at all for the indigenous Africans. To run the essential services, and for the maintenance of law and order, Indians prepared to stay on were recruited, and for those already in business or looking to start, Kenya was seen as a place of possibilities, somewhere in which despite the harsh landscape and economic uncertainties, one might perhaps settle and make a living, even prosper. Among the Goans who arrived in Nairobi in the early 1900s was Joaquim Antonio Nazareth, from the village of Moira. Joachim’s brother Raphael had arrived a few years earlier and started his...

Below are the best read stories on my blog and contributed greatly, along with all the others, in achieving the 250,000 hits mark. Again thanks to all my readers. Two Hockey Trojans/Alu/ Tari (4363 hits) Jack Fernandes (3346 hits) RIP Steve Fernandes (3090) Alu Mendonca (2631) Alu Final Journey (2492 Joe Gonsalves (2449) Xavier Vienna (2355) Johnny Lobo, legend (2349) Johnny Lobo, cricketer (1932) Justin Dourada (1716) Richard Rattos, Drifters (1710) Julian Costa Silva (1704) Ferdie Rodrigues, a brother's lament (1698) Bye Sis (1607) John J. D'Souza (1607)

I want to share this with you and hope sincerely it merits mention on your blog    as I sincerely admire this fab young man who has battled all odds, achieved it and now an inspiration to all.  He is r esolute and perseveres with determination on what is a debilitating condition. Although born in the States, his parents are from Kenya.  His father Edward D'silva was a classmate of Benny in Goan/Sacred Heart School Mombasa and his lovely mother Marianne D'Souza is from Kisumu (good friend of Benegal).  Thanks CM> http://www.newmobility.com/2015/01/person-of-year-jason-dasilva/ Highlight and right click for a brilliant Goan success story Jason DaSilva is an artist. He will always be an artist, no matter how severe his disability becomes, because of how he thinks, feels, and views the world, and because of his passion and determination to communicate that viewpoint to people of all abilities and cultures. NEW MOBILITY is proud to name him o...

Thanks to all you wonderful people who follow my blog. Today we notched up 250,00 hits. Nothing huge in comparison with other major international blogs but pretty big in my small little shamba. Another opportunity to thank all the kind people who read the blog, provide feedback, send me story ideas,eulogies and tributes and anything else that might interest the readership. God Bless Skip

My internet worries continue: TPG sent a couple of very competent technicians and they quickly sussed out the fact that there was a break in the landline cable connecting NBN to my house. They promised to quickly return to base, contact the relevant department (because the first team "does not dig trenches and lay cable". Did not hear anything from anyone for the next six hours so I contact TPG and they breathtaking too me for a ride for the next 18 hours or so and much, much promises and pleas someone (a humble call centre operator) told me that NBN had advised TPG that the repairs of the cable would be carried out on May 22 some 16 days after the break. That is ridiculous! Surely Australians better respect, service and care for their custom ... are we really on a par with the poorest countries in Africa or the sub-continent? Why does TPG have authority to insist that NBN does the repairs within 24 hours? I can't approach NBN because my contract is with TPG. I managed t...

How Fitz tried desperately to save his mentor Pio Gama Pinto Copyright © 2019 Fitzval R.S. de Souza The views and opinions expressed in this book are the author’s own and the facts as remembered by him. All rights reserved. Fitz pictured in London with Pio’s widow Emma Gama Pinto when both were in pretty good health and long before the onset of Parkinson’s disease for Pio. Both have been ailing since. Photograph by ex-Kenyan Benegal Pereira, the son of freedom fighter Eddie Pereira. Forward to Independence  Fitz de Souza  My Memoir Available on Amazon The long, long-awaited memoirs of Fitz de Souza are finally out and the book is quite brilliant. The former Deputy Speaker of the Kenya Parliament, lawyer, politician, a rather quiet man in the sometimes loud circus of politics, he was Jomo Kenyatta’s right-hand man … from the first days of the negotiations for freedom with the British Government and until the night of Decem...