Rhodesian War Stories: Scaramanga
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- A Rhodesian war veteran recalls an undisciplined former British soldier.
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This gentleman could read aloud a phonebook and have our rapt attention. Fascinating anecdotes!
Was going to say exactly the same thing! 😁
I've never been to Rhodesia, but as you tell the story, I feel like I'm right there with you every step of the way. Your experiences are , in many ways, universally relatable for many combat veterans of many different wars. Thank you.
what war did you serve in?
@@mikecavallaro466 damn, you were one of the originals. I cant say that we're succeeding necessarily, but we're trying to live up to the legacy yall created.
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Another addicting story..... I arrived home and parked my car in the driveway.... my phone altered me to a new Five Romeo Romeo video.... 25 minutes later I found myself still sitting in the car, with the engine running, and my family looking out the window wondering if I’d lost my mind. 🤣. Thanks for video.
Sometimes it's nice to get away from the family 😉
As a young boy growing up in Salisbury. My Dad like all white men went off to do his bit for Rhodesia. He hardly ever spoke about what he went through. It is wonderful that you are sharing your experiences in the sticks. What my dad did do, he always brought something home for me, when he returned from a stint. I collected numerous military items. AK mag, bullet shell from an armoured car, numerous shells from all sorts of caliber weapons. I do remember lying in my bed at night, when my Dad was doing his stint in the bush, crying myself to sleep knowing I was safe as he was out the protecting us. But praying the he would make it back in one piece. As other fathers did not always make it back. Great to hear your experiences.
I was too young to serve. However after Zanu came into power we made South Africa our home, I was called up and gave up 2 years to serve in the SADF. I can associate with all of your stories.
Noel Westwood maybe it would’ve worked better if you didn’t show up there first. You colonised them, now they colonise you lmao shut up and deal with it
@@fi866 Keep crying..
I always feel sorry for these Rhodesians who relocated to South Africa, because now South Africa is going down the drain. Shit!
Did lots of Rhoadies leave for South Africa? What happened to your possessions? I must mention too, that in America during those years we never heard of anything about this war! So I am catching up as to what our US govt input was.
When my father was in the uS Army in the 1920.s, They put a new recruit on night guard duty. He challenged someone approaching his post with the standard "Halt who goes there?'. The answer that came back was "Officer of the Day". He replied "Officer of the day, what are you doing out at night?" and started firing in the direction of the voice. The others stopped him before he was able to hit the officer. Needless to say, he never stood guard duty alone for quite a while.
Brilliant
So funny how you talk about listening to that guys tape over and over, reminds me of a camp I did at Bindura. There was an old record player in the mess and only one record, it was Wings by Paul McCartney! That record was played over and over and over again for the full duration of my 6 week camp, we all complained like crazy but each night that record would go back on and we'd all sing along, I still remember all the words and Band on the Run will forever be deeply imprinted in my brain! Thank you for publishing your stories, brings back so many good and sad memories of that terrible time.
Great to see a new upload from you 5RR. It was particularly interesting to me hearing about the "daily life" in the bush. 10-4.
Love your videos!!
Excellent video!
I’m surprised the NCOs or officers let him neglect his weapon that way.
I was thinking the same thing.. in an army Infantry line company, one can’t leave his weapon for mere seconds without being scuffed up.
You know it's funny he liked the song rinestone cowboy. A "rhinestone cowboy" is a fake, someone who dresses in a hat and boots but doesn't ride fence or herd cattle. you know a poser. It is actually against the law in Texas. I don't think its enforced tho ha ha
@@VictorianTimeTraveler Considering all the repub cowboy cosplayers I doubt that is so.
I have watched your videos with great interest and found them extremely interesting, as a former British Soldier and having served in Norther Ireland, it took me by surprise watching this video SCARAMANGA and it also angered me in the manner in which this former British Soldier conducted himself in an undisciplined and disgraceful manner.
He may have served in NI but I would think he was a Clerk or worked in HQ in some capacity, he would have probably been in a position to type out Situation reports / Contact Reports and have access to other such documents, I would think he gained a lot of his stories from listening to the lads who had been out patrolling and sitting around chatting about the days patrol over a beer.
I can assure you if he had conducted himself in that manner in a section he would have got a sharp painful lesson taken around the back for an attitude adjustment, If at any time your weapon was not clean and serviceable or any further than an arms distance away from you look out and expect to get that weapon rammed up your arse, it should be part of your body when on operations.
I love it how soldiers around the world are the same. This bit about the nickname is so true and how they earned them. We had one man in 3-75 Rangers from Texas who was small in size but had the heart of a lion. During an assault, he just got up, charged forward and blasted away. Ergo his nickname was 'Duke' (ala John Wayne). We had another Ranger who was called 'Ranger Uhm'. When I met him, I said 'Ranger 'So and So' why do they call you Ranger Uhm? And he replied 'Uhm Sergeant it is Uhm, Because I Uhm say Uhm a lot' ... I said 'I got it Uhm'.
Ranger Uhm is great!
When I was a young teenager I was obsessed with the 75RR.
It's infallible! In every Army there is as always "That Guy"... He has been since time began and everyone has a story about him.Well done sir!
hi :)
Yes we all had to work with one. We named "That Guy" The Key Master. (Ghost Busters)
@@ThatGuy-nv2wo haha
Your bush tales are a delightful treat in these boring times of quarantine
@Fiach McHugh Ó Bruadair hahaha relax man, go and walk your dog hahah
When in basic training i almost stabbed my company commander at night.
They told us that some dangerous people fled a mental hospital nearby befor we headed out.
I don`t know if this was true or if it was to keep us from falling asleep at night. When heading back from the alarmpost to the squadcamp the captain appeared right behind me. I "felt" that someone was behind me and almost stabbed him but somehow could see his face in the moonlight through the branches. He certainly saw the shining blade of the bajonett and my second hand was on his throat. He said "well done" and never lost a word about it.
The lesson is: Don`t scare and underestimate even raw recruits at night. Especially if you haven`t stripsearched them before.
There were some escapees from Enguchini (excuse the spelling)mental hospital in Bulawayo and unfortunately six people living on Churchill road in Bellview lost there lives as a result I was still at school then, that must have been 74 or 5
Never use shiny blades in warfare.
edit: I don't think the USA has used anything but black for many decades. I think it is the same for UK. This must have been a long time ago.
@@VidarrKerr parkerizing or blue-ing will wear off and get shiny just from sheathing it repeatedly. Shiny and oiled is second best to parkerized or blued
Mr D: The genius of the stories that get told to the newbies is that they can never be proven nor disproven. They seem to ring true just enough to keep you frosty. A story we were once told at dusk before moving out for the night was that Bedouin tribesmen in the area were roaming the hills to mutilate and castrate anyone they found asleep. I didn’t quite believe it at the time, but it sure kept me wide awake.😳
I think I missed my calling. I got plugged into an aircraft mechanics job 50 years ago, and there I went and I'm still there to this day. :-) Thanks for sharing your experiences.
We call it an accordion,😂 no fun if you’re in the last platoon. That happened to me on convoy once. I was driving the biggest slowest vehicle, got left in the dust. Luckily I knew how to to get where I needed to go, and no one attacked me 😂
I was a Rhodesian serviceman for 5 years. Never once knew of a rifle being treated like that.
As a Finn whose grandfather fought in the Winter War and often told stories of that war, my heart bleeds for Rhodesia. Much respect for anyone who had to fight for one's home.
That would be a FAiL get it a FAL.....
I think it was in the Falklands that the British had a chaplain who didn't really bother with passwords, his standard reply on being challenged was always something like "don't shoot, its only the f**king padre!"
I think you are mentioning David Cooper en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cooper_(chaplain)
@@terrywarner8657 Quite likely the same guy.
There was a Brit officer in WW2 who could never remember the password so he always carried an umbrella (The character in the movie “A Bridge too Far” who does it is him/based on him, some characters were changed/consolidated from real life for the movie)
First of all i would like to thank you for sharing your memories with us. And for helping to preserve a piece of history, from someone who was there and not an armchair general who's only experience of war is through a book or movie.
And as a veteran of 25 years service in the British Army, including Northern Ireland and some African excursions, i would like to offer you an apology.
After watching with great interest this episode " Scaramanga" i felt i had to message and apologise about his "Blase" Attitude to soldiering and the impression he left on you. I was horrified to hear about what i consider, lack of professionalism. I can assure you that if any British Soldier moved more than a arms length away from his weapon, he would have incurred the wrath of an NCO and booted from one end of the harbour area to the other. I was amused to hear he propped his weapon and ignored it. And the sandbags! It sounded like he was making it up as he went along.
I would just like to thank you for sharing your memories, and for the service you gave your beloved country. Thank you and please keep the memories coming and stay safe.
What a pleasure to hear another story from the war. I’ll be sharing and explaining etc. to my son to keep up the memories of Rhodesia. Once again, a huge thank you. If there is any way to support or contribute please let me know. What you are doing is very special indeed. This is from the little Rhodesian contingent now based in Russia.
Russia? How'd you end up there?
Thankyou for sharing your tales. From an ex-infantryman in Seattle.
I'll never forget how we as young recruits (roof) (thief in Afrikaans) SADF slang term for new recruits were taught how important your rifle was to your survival as a soldier.
The very first time we did live fire drills at the shooting range, was a two day affair with a sleep over at the range, we were expected to sleep with our rifles in our sleeping bags and those that forgot to do so had their weapons removed during the night, and true to army tradition, we all had to pay for those that neglected to follow the request by pushing the trucks in gear out of the shooting range grounds at the end of the drills, needless to say no one forgot to leave their rifles out of their sleeping bags from then on.
In Canada in winter conditions you don't keep your rifle in your sleeping bag or tent. If you do the moisture and cold will rust your rifle and get moisture everywhere that will freeze once you take it out and once you take it out of the tent its NS.
I believe "scab" is the correct translation in the context of a new recruit.
Excellent story telling! Great knowledge as well!
My dude!
Great story.
I don’t watch tv so when you post it’s like a new episode of my favorite show!
Throughout your, various stories, you consistently provide fieldcraft techniques that troops only come to learn with experience. I'll bet that more than one platoon-level Soldier or Marine has heard something you've said and been all the better for it after applying it in training or exercises.
Thank you for posting your accounts. My trainee and platoon days were long before TH-cam, and I wish I'd have had access to your anecdotes back then. It could have saved me some embarrassment on a couple of occasions in training. One can study field manuals forever, but trying to apply them for the first time never seems to be as easy as it looks in writing. Only practical wisdom makes doctrine become useful.
Good story, thanks for telling. I wonder if Scaramanga will listen to this and recognise himself
Thank you so much for posting these videos , BEST CHANNEL ON TH-cam EK SE
LOL a universal tale!! In the US Army they would call such a character “the weak sister” of the squad!! My dear friend when he was deployed in Afghanistan told me a similar story of a private who left his SAW at a first aid station- my buddy pulled up and ask him where his weapon was- reply maybe at the first aid? Fortunately the first sergeant drove him there and the medics handed his weapon where PT immediately commenced for this man. As any veteran of any war would tell you it’s the little things that can get you killed. Thank You for stories many of friends particularly my South African friends who were born after this war are fascinated with your tales because their fathers who fought in Angola are only beginning to tell them their stories!!
I didn’t know any of them were left, and no one else tells these stories. I’m glad you chose to share these!
You are a HERO sir. Please keep uploading :)
My parents were in the UDR in NI. Often have stories to tell of fallen friends or squaddies. It was a bad time.
McCman 13 i was in 7/10 UDR after i finished my last tour in my own Regt. I ended up staying on after it went R.Irish.Cheers mate.
Fiach youse boys dont like Sundays lol Faugh A Ballagh
@@rorymcdonald9852 Thanks for your service.👍🏻
They shouldn't have joined the UDR.
Thank you for another great yarn. The armourer told me that many FN's returned after a month's call up in the rainy season wouldn't fire. I found if the breech block wasn't stripped and oiled frequently the firing pin would seize up. In the dry season the stripping and oiling of the breech block items was not needed so often and there were too many tiny items liable to be dropped and lost. The AK47, I am told, was much more forgiving.
I think thats why they call it daily stripping and cleaning - and in the field weapon comes before food
Thanks for the video, regards from Australia
At 20 mins, your description of the 'obstacle slinky' is bang on. I was always careful about this - particularly with a 30 man platoon. Cross the obstacle, proceed slowly for 50 metres or so then pause in an all round defence - giving the tail a chance to cross the obstacle and catch up.
I'm from northern Ireland, love your videos
*free Ireland
@@grnnr1846 ?
Brilliant. So much to learn about soldiering, so much to hear. Thank you, sir.
The cleaning of weapons was part of our morning routine, half of the section/platoon and then the other half incase of attack. MGs in a staggered manner depending on the size of the formation.
Weapons were cleaned (Aussie SLRs (FNs)I loved that weapon)starting from the breech, slide and breech block, pull through, re assembled, and then the gas system. At any time of cleaning the weapons could be re assembled quickly and put into action. Passwords were issued through the Orders Group before the patrol. No one was allowed out of the perimeter at night unless it was a patrol or ambush party. We had set drills for obstical crossings, the first section would have an area of exploitation (depending on the size of the formation) and prop, as the rest of the patrol went through, all round defence would have formed. The patrol would then resume when the last man was through.
I don't know if you have read this one, but, it was strongly encouraged in my battalion for all the new kids to read it. www.valka.cz/files/elford_190.pdf
I would like to say how much I enjoy your experiences in Rhodesia, many thanks. Cheers BobbyB.
Awesome first hand history; the info on daily life in the bush is excellent, not replicated anywhere I know of. Thank you for sharing your experience and informing the newer generations.
I love the channel! You just don't get anecdotes like these anywhere else. I live in Belfast, Northern Ireland and you're right it was downright crazy what happened over here from the 1960's through to the late 1990's. A completely different conflict to Rhodesia's struggles but a very bloody one none the less. Keep up the great work!
Another riveting story from the past,thank you for that. I don`t know how this guy would have gotten on in NI with his brand of soldiering. Not much call for empty sandbags on your feet in Belfast.
what gets me is he left his FN to rust it,s a recipe for a stoppage . I once tripped and my rifle got about 6" of mud straight up the barrell .it was about an hour before I got a chance to get a pull through in and I never felt so vunerable . mind I was carrying a revolver :)
Great story. I learned in boot camp about maintaining a weapon. Due to the specific nature of your war in the bush I'm surprised you didn't have a basic training or even an on the job training to train and evaluate the foreign veteran soldiers in Rhodesia. Just allowing the man to let his rifle rust should have brought the wrath of the Rhodesian God's upon his head. Then putting him in command after such an obvious failure to maintain his weapon surprises me based on the elite reputation of the Rhodesian military. I'm glad you all made it back from that night in the bush.
Awesome history, awesome stories. Keep talking, Five Romeo Romeo! We're listening.
Thank you sir for your service to a great country! I had two uncles in the RLI and one was a Selous Scout. I remember these kind of stories well and have many memories of those days. Listening to your stories makes me very homesick. Thank you for sharing your experiences sir. Much respect.
I come to Romeo five faster than anyone else when I see a new video posted!
Such wonderful stories. I spent some time in Rhodesia. Wonderful people.
Outstanding ending. Yes indeed, we have all felt that way from time to time.
Such a marvelous speaker. Thank you.
Please continue to make these videos. I thoroughly enjoy hearing your stories from Rhodesia.
I’m super happy I found this channel, instantly one of my new favorites. Ima prolly binge watch every episode over the nxt 2-3 days
Sir thank you for your stories and experiences, you are a amazing story teller and I hope you are well.
Fantastic storytelling. Outstanding.
Great stories which are a part of our history, thank you for telling them and thank you for keeping Rhodesia safe.
Combat soldiers in the field are humorously creative when it comes to nicknames. One night, out in the middle of nowhere, our team stopped to catch a breather. One of the guys, parked his unfortunate tender ass on a scorpion. I swear within minutes, even before he was med-evaced, people were already referring to him (affectionately) as *Scorpion* and the name stuck from that day forward. 😂
We had a guy in one of the units on our base called Venom. Turned out that he earned it during his training school when he was placed on quarters for a week by medical after his face was so swollen from an encounter with a bee hive he couldn't open his eyes enough to perform any task in a useful way.
Van Helsing was a man in my high school friend's unit who broke up a fight where the aggressor had been biting the other guy. He yelled for a stake to "Finish off this vampire".
That’s humorous but not creative...
He sat on a scorpion so we call him... Scorpion
We had a guy join our unit from another unit...We asked him his nickname and he said "I haven't got one..."..."Bollocks" said the sergeant "You'll be known as shitface from now on" and it stuck. It became a regimental joke the best bit was that he changed company, his new Staff Sergeant asked him (knowing his nick name already) and the lad said "I don't care so long as you don't call me shitface". Staff Sergeant said "Fair enough we'll call you shithead". Welcome to the military if you cannot take a joke you shouldn't have joined up. Others was a female member of staff, nick-named Kronenberg, because from behind she looked 16 and from the front she looked 64. Female Helicopter pilot called "Kitchen"...Tons of terrible non-PC names.
mwnciboo: Amen, you have to be able to dish it out as well as receive it. Everyone is fair game.
In 1979 a cop in Que Que told me a funny story. A PATU stick was on patrol somewhere between Nembudziya and Gokwe, the sun went down but they had to keep moving in the dark to reach their destination. All hell broke loose only 20 yards away from them, one bloke started firing so they all started firing. Eventually they discovered that a donkey tethered to a tree had been attacked by a leopard. They only had a few bullets left between them.
Just discovered your channel. Binge watching all of the videos. This is such rare history that is almost never taught. Thank you.
One of the best stories. Thank you for keeping this history alive!
Thank you for sharing these stories.
So good to see you again 5RR! It always used to annoy me on night ops/exercises when the patrol became a concertina (that's the term I seem to remember)-usually because the leader wasn't thinking of the guys in the rear. Fortunately my time in Northern Ireland was in Fermanagh & South Tyrone, not quite bandit country, and patrols got us out of platoon/company base. Even worst was Bosnia, stuck in an SF base for months because of the landmines strewn everywhere, a nightmare. The half hour occasional patrol in the village was a relief.
This reminds me of sitting with my grandpa and writing down his stories from Vietnam. Thank you for making these. These experiences deserve to be remembered.
Many thanks for sharing these tales. Awesome.
Excellent patrolling technique/explanation.
More please, top notch stuff. Makes me both smile AND shed a tear.
Apprciate these stories from your experiences, thank you for sharing sir!!
Thank you!
I’m highly entertained
i just came across your channel and i really wanna thank you for taking the time out of your day to record the stories you have .
Doing some tiling and listening to your stories, fantastic
Thank you for sharing, greatly appreciated.
Thank you again for your service. Love your stories.
The lesson being " Never follow a Mad Irishman ". During the Boer War , the Irish who supported the Boers were placed in charge of blowing things up e.g. railway lines and Small British Forts.
I had the Rhinestone Cowboy going through my head every second of this video.. the Billy Connolly version as well as the original..
Us South Africans always thought of Rhodesia as English, so hearing Afrikaans words like 'woes' (angry) is startling.
I read a book about Rhodesia and the Bush War a year or so ago, and the author kindly supplied a list of slang words that originated in Rhodesia.
There were Afrikaans words that South Africans used all the time in there, so I discounted the authors' claim and promptly forgot about it until you said woes.
I always thought our countries had a close connection but never realized how much we had/have in common.
A real MAN a real hero.
I can remember a lot of guys left the British Army to go over to Rhodesia back in the 1970's.
1:53 "He was a country and western fan" - I like this man already
A man of culture listens to both kinds of music - Country _and_ Western.
God's music
I love the way nicknames are earned/given in the military, and also other walks of life like factories or building sites.
We had a chap who was stick thin, and wore skin tight Jean's, but he had a really red face.
We called him Swan Vesta.
This is a fascinating channel.
Men like this are few and far between these days , fantastic stories.
Absolutely amazing stories! Cant wait for the next one and the next one! Please keep up the amazing work and storytelling. 👍🏻
Keep up the great work
Rhodesians never die!
Really love your channel!
Wonderful stories! Just wonderful!
Four days later and my eye would go across to where that forlorn weapon was standing
I knew a guy (years ago) who served in the Rhodesian Army and I remember him saying that, if someone came wandering near their patrol camp at night, they would blaze away without warning. I was always skeptical about this until you confirmed the fact in this video. Thank you.
I recall he also said that they wouldn't go and check if they'd hit anyone until firstlight. Hopefully, they were either dead or escaped the way they came!
Please be so kind to write a book of short stories.. We need to preserve our history in this. Pamwe Chete Shamwari!
Very interesting. thanks. Best wishes from your 'cousins' in Australia
Glad your back. Missed your talks. Suggestion for future talks...can you go over your kit and what you carried and wore? Ammo loadout, rations, med kit, basically a run down on what average trooper would carry?
Thanks again for keeping history alive.
Rhodesian culture and the men in produced is a profound loss that should never be forgotten.
An American friend did not know the term hessian sack so I explained and he say ok, like gunnysacks or burlap bags.
With regards to Northern Ireland vs the Bush War: The grass is always greener mate! I was never there myself but knew a British Army Sergeant Major and a Sergeant who were there... they said there was lots of downtime with the occasional unlucky one getting "ventilated." "Boredom punctuated by sheer terror" and all that. It makes sense that he was blase from that point of view... pure chance.
@JW Graham yeah that was my sentiment. It depended on where you were posted though. Crossmaglen was a killer.
Superb, as usual , lekker bru
It’s arguably more interesting to just here regular stories then crazy war hero ones
Thanks for making these videos. Hopefully they are archived because otherwise they will be erased from history the way things are trending.
now I've listened to all your stories. they were great!
Congratulations on 6000 subscribers!
Thanks for posting 5RR. No way a guy could have got away with mistreating his weapon like that in the SADF...instant opvok and/or DB. A soldiers rifle would not have got anywhere near that state of condition. I have always maintained that the soldiers of the Rhodesian Army and SADF had a much higher level of discipline, training and effectiveness than their European/Western counterparts, not to mention the communists. We were more serious at the business of soldiering and warfare.
I agree Titus. I had a medic on my team from 62 Bn. A massive man, Afrikaans, and a gentle giant. Except when it came time to get the job done, no bullshit straight forward professional.
In Australia he'd find his fingers jammed into the breach and the cocking handle worked a few times just to teach him a lesson. Letting an weapon rust anytime, but especially on operations is just unimaginable.
You did not dare mistreat your R1. I remember in basics having to carry my rifle almost everywhere. It became very mundane. Until a month into basics and we were taken to the shooting range.You found a new respect for that weapon
@@craigeastmure7320 Absolutely. I remember being issued a sling, but never being allowed to fit it onto the rifle and use it. We were taught to carry our rifles all the time and the message was clear - a slung weapon is a useless weapon. And when we finally did what we were trained to do, it was one of the most invaluable lessons and all of us always had their rifle with them at all times, always ready.
@@tituspullo9210 -- We in the Greys Scouts must have been rare exceptions, We were issued with slings and were allowed to fit them to the rifle if you chose to ( however most troopers didn't fit them ). Reason being Its hard to take care of a horse and keep a rifle in your hand. slung on your back is better than a few feet away.
Thank you Great information
With a patrol of that size, surely it should have been broken up into smaller semi autonomous units that had each been fully briefed on the infil route, as well as all the special features and obstacles.
I’ve never heard of such a shambles. It’s hard to only blame Scaramanga.
We always used waypoint RVs, staging points and layups. But we also generally patrolled in small units, or autonomously in conjunction with other units. We never set out without a full briefing. But I preferred moving by night. It’s always slow, sometimes painfully so, but it’s the stealthiest option.
Oh, and we used Russian tackies occasionally, but never sandbags!
Very odd.
Also, NI was never a high intensity conflict. Most serious contacts were SAS turkey shoots - staged ambushes usually at night. So I’m dubious about that bloke. And his weapons drill is ludicrous. Should never leave his side. Ridiculous.
Thank you for sharing this strange tale.
See bright light post may help you understand better
Michael coyne Understand what? Amateurs getting lost in the dark and trying to get people killed? I’ve been avoiding idiots like that all my life. Where do you believe this fount of wisdom be at?
@@G58I really do like fukken bobejoins.You say see post bright light maybe help you understand. fukken bobejoins reply Understand what.clearly showing not looking at post and asking what is a bright light?
So prey tell how are things in C.A,B now days? (can't be assked brigade) Hope all is good I hope
Great stories! Greetings from Brazil.
Another video, this made my morning
Thank you for the lesson in patience and understanding..
Madala. Ever read 'where the leopard passes', by Geraldine Elliot (published 1949)? Your story-telling follows in that timeless Zulu tradition. Wonderful.