Category Archives: racial development

The BARROS PAWNS – Serial 2nd instalment ch.4-6

Posted on April 17, 2020 by peterjearle

THE BARROS PAWNS: A free serial for Lockdown – 4-6. a novel of war in Mozambique by Peter J. Earle, Author of 6 southern African thrillers.   FOUR “This is no bloody good.” The fat man hardly gave Morné Brand … Continue reading →

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VILLAGE LIFE

Posted on October 25, 2019 by peterjearle

Late 2010: I heard that one of our “fellow” white residents, a cantankerous bachelor who lived 2 blocks from Sheila, had been going around swearing at random locals because of the break-in he suffered recently. This included even the folk … Continue reading →

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A Novel of a Road-Rage Decision.

Posted on September 13, 2018 by peterjearle

I thought, after a really nasty attitude by a traffic cop roadblock, that I might just understand the ultimate road rage of losing it completely and blowing them away. That action which would send one’s life to hell because of … Continue reading →

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de la Rey, de la Rey

Posted on January 22, 2017 by peterjearle

Our new home was 10 Rose Street, Uniondale. The Boers called it Rose Straat, rose being the Afrikaans for roses, when it was in honour of British  Field Marshall Hugh Henry Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn,GCB, GCSI, PC (6 April 1801 – 16 … Continue reading →

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The Big Onion.

Posted on January 17, 2017 by peterjearle

Leaving Botswana in 2004, we established ourselves in Uniondale, Western Cape, South Africa. Despite its English sounding name, Uniondale turned out neither to be English nor unified. It didn’t take too long to peel back some of the layers. This … Continue reading →

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Pressure Builds

Posted on November 12, 2014 by peterjearle

One of Sheila’s cows fell ill with mastitis (Staphylococcus aureus), which should be easily treatable with penicillin, but it evolved into blue udder and gas gangrene, which the new vet, Gordon Strick, told us was often a fatal disease. He … Continue reading →

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The Militant Nurse

Posted on November 4, 2014 by peterjearle

1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, saw the inevitability of the re-unification of Germany, as Communism failed with the bankruptcy of Russia. Exciting times, indeed, on top of our own South African political metamorphosis. At St. Vincent’s Hospital … Continue reading →

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Dunlop Necklaces – 1990.

Posted on October 29, 2014 by peterjearle

Meanwhile, back at the ranch. On our little farm, we put a dairy room next to the milking parlour and roofed the section between that and the old wooden kitchen, which was now a workshop that housed the Wolseley power-paraffin … Continue reading →

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Building Bridges

Posted on October 24, 2014 by peterjearle

My next job for Basil Read was a ten kilometre tarred road with a pier and beam concrete bridge over the Komati River in the smallest of the Apartheid derived black Homelands, KaNgwane. It was ironical that I was once … Continue reading →

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Muslims, Milk, Karate & Tennis

Posted on September 4, 2014 by peterjearle

From the farm, the road ran through Jinnah Park, the “Indian township” of Apartheid South Africa, just outside Warmbaths. They were mostly Muslims, and only a few Hindus. The Ravat family had a large general-dealer. There were at least three … Continue reading →

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