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HENDRIK VAN DER BIJL
By Willem Petzer.

This South African could have been the richest men in the world alongside of the Rothschilds, Carnegie  and others.

Hendrik was the greatest Engineer South Africa has ever produced.  After he invented the first intercontinental Telephone in America, had he stayed there, he could have become one of the Robber Barons, alongside Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Rockefeller, but he decided to come back to South Africa and build our Industrial sector from nothing, after the devastation of the Boer war and great depression.

Hendrik was the son of a Farm worker (not a farmer), who saved up to buy his first oxwagon to start transporting goods between Pretoria, Kimberley, and Cape Town.  It was on the back of this oxwagon that Hendrik taught himself Mathematics, and Physics.  He then studied Engineering in Stellenbosch at the age of 16, and studied for his PhD in Germany, at Leipzig University, at the age of 21.

After completing his PhD, he went to work for Bell Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a company that employed 15 Nobel prize scientists up until today.  It was here where Van der Bijl invented the first intercontinental telephone, by creating a telephone able to make a phone call from New York to Paris.

He was asked in 1920, by Gen JBM Hertzog to return to South Africa, to help with the struggling Industrial sector.  Leaving riches and a prosperous career in America behind, Van der Bijl came to South Africa with nothing.

He was the founding chairman of Eskom, leading the company to become the first to power a major city with electric streetlights.  The first in the world.  Under his leadership, Eskom, which he started from nothing, became the largest and most profitable Electricity provider in the world, powering every African country as high up as Ethiopia.  He stayed on as the Chairman of Eskom until his death in 1948.

Other companies Van der Bijl created and ran were Iscor, Amcor, the Industrial Development Corporation (later becoming the CSIR), Transnet, and Safmarine.

Had Van der Bijl built up these companies in his private name, he would have been richer than Rockefeller at that stage.  Funnily enough, Hertzog suggested Van der Bijl start these companies as private companies.

But Van der Bijl did not believe in Capitalism.  He was a nationalist.  He believed in public utilities, for the people, by the people, as he outlined in his 1919 paper "Scientific research and industrial development."

When he died in 1948, he had little more than a house and a car to his name.  Today, the legacy of Hendrik van der Bijl is plundered through corruption, state capture, mismanagement and looting. but despite stealing 100's of billions, and enormous mismanagement, poiticians, syndicates, and other criminals have still not been able to destroy the vast wealth created for this country by Hendrik van der Bijl.

Let him be our example.
Hendrik van der Bijl, and many other greats like him, are the people we should be looking up to during this time when we feel like the entire country is being destroyed by corruption and incompetence. 

Let us learn from great men like Hendrik van der Bijl, and create instead of criticising. Let us plan and implement today as once was built, from nothing, by great men like Hendrik van der Bijl

I have always wondered why girls rub their eyes when they wake up.

And now after all these years I finally figured it out and the answer is :

Because they have no balls to scratch..





Smile Sourpuss.

One of YouTube's most respected bloggers (Perun) did an interesting interview with former US General Ben Hodges about NATO Training and Lessons from the War in Ukraine,
I present it here for those who realize the 'MSM' has probably been telling truths all along since 2016 and who are curious about what lays ahead in that conflict theater.
Listen or not, your choice.

The entire state of Florida is engulfed in heavy rains and extremely high winds as a result of a low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico. I was out a few times today and witnessed it raining sideways, about the same as a direct hit from a tropical storm. Most wind gusts are around 25 to 30 miles per hour with a few bursts of 45 miles per hour.
The wind report is easy, it's the local flooding that could occur, especially near the East coast. The warnings went out yesterday.

Some of my neighbors have moved their cars to higher ground, I'll keep watch and if I think there's a chance my street will flood, I'll move my car too. Years ago, a few of us lost cars to extreme flooding that was nearly 2 feet deep in the middle of the street. I heard it was fault of the waterway management system who failed to turn on the pumps that take sewer water into canals and reservoirs. After four hours of steady rain, It was half the night waiting for the streets to drain.

Rain water drainage is an issue...
As far as the high winds... Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow.

Former AC/DC drummer Colin Burgess passed away over the weekend.

Colin Burgess, the original drummer for Australian rock band AC/DC, has died at the age of 77 due to unknown reasons.

Most Ireland guys need nudes pic.. I only noticed this with these kind of people. I need to know why?

Top story today: Jury awards $148 million in damages to the 2 election workers over Rudy Giuliani's lies.
Rudy repeatedly pushed a false conspiracy theory that endangered the lives of Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman who were 2020 Georgia election workers. They were on video passing something back and forth that Rudy claimed was drugs, when in fact it was a pack of Tic Tac breath mint.

Admitting he had lied, Rudy continued to repeat his baseless allegations about the women in comments to reporters outside the Washington, D.C. courthouse earlier this week.

I look at what happened in Ukraine, where most of the Ukraine men 18 years and older stayed and engaged in the fight with Russia whereas a significant number of Ukraine women hightailed it out of Ukraine to party elsewhere, and so I have to believe the same thing will happen when the sheet hits the fan globally.

Maybe I am wrong? Do feminist fight for equality or just advocate for what benefits them? For instance, have any Feminist lately fought for conscription equality?

What do you answer man who writes to you lots of messages even you refuse to talk from “Finland” and con profile he is 70 years old, but in reality man is from Morocco and is 27 years old:

“I would like to give you a good sex and take care of you and get married... just you should think about this for serious”

Do you think he is interested in 68 years old lady or ??? Lol



I put “blog category”- entertainment

I was wondering about this a long time,If you had the mind that you have now,and you were born again,what would be your goal in your new life?
As for me? I would make my 2nd life's goal to be a Long Distance Runner