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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Murphy who wrote (3764)	2/28/1999 3:59:00 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81884

Bill : The earth is trembling in Johannesburg today to the sound of the marching feet of 10,000 angry goldbugs --- led by Bill "Shaka" Murphy! btimes.co.za But what about this? : "Murphy could do well to heed what finally happened to Shaka, dubbed "the Napoleon of Eastern Africa" by a shipwreck survivor who visited his kraal. On the death of his mother, Nandi, in 1827, Shaka become openly psychotic. About 7 000 Zulus were killed in the initial paroxysm of his grief and, for a year, no crops were planted, nor could milk be used. All pregnant women were slain with their husbands, as were thousands of cows, so that even calves might know what it was to lose a mother. In 1828, Shaka tried to send his impi on one too many a journey, prompting his half-brothers Dingaan and Mhlanga, together with an induna named Mbopa, to murder him."