Vrystaat Confessions

Tag: scandal

  • Skandaal in our Dorp

    Skandaal in our Dorp

    Prester John of the Harrismith Engelse Kerk was a man about town.

    A MOTH, he frequented the MOTH Hall and knocked back many an ale seated at the bar. Anglicans are lucky. Like Catholics, they are allowed to booze. Unlike poor Methodists!

    It was also known – perhaps unbeknown to him – that he had a lover; a married lady from a different church; a church that frowned on booze.

    They met on the grounds of the defunct Presbyterian Church for their trysts. Was the church thus refunct?

    As far as is known he suffered no consequences for his philandering; he wasn’t defrocked; but secret nocturnal witnesses say she occasionally was.

    ~~oo0oo~~

    Ye Olde Original Prester John

    Prester John was a mythical Christian priest and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries told of a Nestorian patriarch and king who ruled over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient. The accounts were often embellished* with various tropes of medieval popular fantasy, depicting Prester John as a descendant of the Three Wise Men, ruling a kingdom full of riches, marvels, and strange creatures. The myth was used as one of the excuses for the murderous crusades.

    Like secret uranium, hidden weapons of mass destruction, drugs – there are always lies that can be told to justify attacks and the beginnings of wars. Instil fear, repeat the lies, and suddenly many people trust politicians and newspapers! without asking for any evidence. Wars are profitable, therefore wars MUST be started.

    *Sample embellishments: A Hebrew book of Ben-Sira was published in 1519 in Constantinople, and its appendix includes ‘a copy of the letter that Priesty Juan sent to the Pope in Rome’.

    The main theme is: In a very remote land there was a great king and Christian priest Prester John, who ruled over 72 countries rich in silver and gold. Many wonderful creatures lived there, such as men with horns on their foreheads and three eyes, women who fought while mounted on horses, men that lived 200 years, unicorns, etc.

    Ah, religion! So flexible. Never needing evidence. Ooh, a priest we invented is in trouble we hear! We’d better go on a murderous crusade to find him / rescue him (and his treasure)!

    ~~oo0oo~~

  • Eina! and Skande!

    Eina! and Skande!

    . . and then tragedy.

    Original message from Etienne Joubert in 2014 – (translation below)

    Good morning all you Harrismith followers!

    Who was Paul de Witt . . ?? . .  Skande gemaak vir Harrismith se mense.

    KAAPSTAD – ’n Predikant en bekende restaurateur in Hentiesbaai is Maandag in die vroeë oggendure deur doeanebeamptes met sowat 11 400 witmossels en 20 kg calamari  in sy besit by die ­Vioolsdrift-grenspos vasgetrek.

    Ds. Paul de Witt (63) het die twee spesies, wat albei beskerm word, sonder vervoerpermitte in sy Nissan X-Trail van Kaapstad na Hentiesbaai vervoer.

    De Witt is omstreeks 01:30 deur die polisie voorgekeer en sy voertuig is deursoek. Verskeie sakke vol mossels met ’n geskatte waarde van R11 400, en ’n sak met 20 kg calamari is agter in sy voertuig gevind.

    De Witt is deur die eenheid teen georganiseerde misdaad in hegtenis geneem en daar is beslag gelê op sy voertuig, sowel as die sakke seekos.

    De Witt is ’n boorling van Harrismith.

    ~~~~oo000oo~~~~

    I immediately contacted my mate Steph de Witt:

    Hey Steph – I vaguely remember a Paul de Witt. Who and what was he op Herries?
    He got caught with his hand in the cookie jar!
    Cheers – Koos

    ~~~~oo000oo~~~~

    On 2014/07/08 Steph de Witt replied:

    Koos! Dis my bloedfamilie, my own cousin !!

    ~~~~oo000oo~~~~

    Me: Fokkit I can still live with the witmossel-steel part, but the DOMINEE part? THAT’s the skande!

    ~~~~oo000oo~~~~

    Translation:

    Eina! and Skande! – ouch! and scandal!

    A Harrismith old boy who became a preacherman was caught smuggling protected seafood – mussels and calamari – from South Africa into Namibia.

    He was an interesting character: My sister remembers him as one of a gang of ‘naughty / rude’ boys as a teenager. As does happen with some naughty / rude boys, he became a preacher. But as less often happens, a preacher who operated a pub. He sold salvation on Sundays and booze from Mondays to Saturdays! Like, ‘create your own sinners.’

    His pub obviously needed seafood so he ‘fetched’ some from across the border – illegally. And got caught.

    Sadly, he died in a car wreck soon after!

    ~~~~oo000oo~~~~ 

    Steph: Poor fella died in a motoraccident on Friday afternoon, can you
    believe it ?!
    Me: No!! That's very sad! Dammitall. Jammer ou Steph - do you know his vrou and family?
    Steph: Ja, had a sad but interesting innings, will keep you posted.

    Subject: Paul de Witt

    Hey Et – Steph has just informed me that Paul died in a car accident on Friday.

    Dammitall. From sudden fame / notoriety to tragic end.

    Etienne: 

    Yo ....that's sad, my condolences if you make 
contact again. But at least we know he's gone 
to Paradise, where there's lots of white & black 
muscles & of course, calamari .........!!
Cheers - Et 
---------------

    paul de witt case
    
Vraagtekens oor kroegdominee se storie

    ~~~~oo0oo~~~~

    Tragically, Steph never did keep me posted. Our dear friend Steph also died in a car accident ten months later!