Posted by Georg on Dec 13, 2009 in Buster's diary | 0 comments
Since our somewhat traumatic experience of
imprisonment in Mozambique I’ve been wallowing in a “soft depression” for a while. Congrats to the evil forces! If their goal was to slow us down in our orgone-ite (formerly called orgonite) gifting spree here in Africa, they scored a goal or two. But did they win the tournament?
I don’t think so!
Firstly the result of our trip and the successful orgone gifting of Lake Cahora Bassa has been overwhelmingly positive in terms of the rainfall it has unlocked in the whole region.
Another dam wall "sabotaged" with orgone gifts: Haartebespoort Dam West of Pretoria
Some of our psychically gifted friends even found that our imprisonment as a “labour of love” has unleashed even greater healing forces in the region than an outwardly successful and “smooth as planned expedition” could have done. I am not prone to much mystical speculation and still believe in the value of good old solid orgone-ite gifting in order to turn whole regions from places of misery and decay into paradisical gardens.
So we want to be back in Northern Mozambique and finish what we started sooner or later.
All these projects are not forgotten.
But in the meantime it may be wise to focus on our home turf and do a lot more work in South Africa. After all, our main push in gifting South Africa has been in the years 2002-2005, thereafter we have ventured out more and more into African countries, trying to expand the cover of positive energy over the whole region.
Of course we can say that chemtrails and excessive HAARP modulations have basically vanished from South African skies and that rains have been quite good with very few pockets of drought remaining. That’s despite however hard the other side may be working on creating these “climate change” conditions in support of the fraudulent “global warming” agenda.
(more global control is of course the main objective there, apart from the anticipated boom of trading in “carbon rights” derivatives)
The South African weather service has acknowledged that general rainfall in the Eastern parts of the country has increased while in the western part there have been parts suffering from drought like conditions.
Let it be known that the EASTERN part is the one we gifted most thoroughly and that we were only able to close an important gap on the West Coast of South Africa in March / April this year. so the impact of this change on the rainfall statistics is still to be seen.
We take all drought scenarios in our adopted region as a personal affront by the way and feel challeneged to do something about it. We really take it personal!
Haartebespoort Dam is one of the 2 major water reservoirs for Gauteng Province, the economic engine of South Africa with Pretoria and Johannesburg as it’s two majo cities that have grown together into one major metropolita area. We had plopped a few gifts in there with my first boat before taking it to the Zambezi in Zambia in 2006, but obviously not enough.
Friederike makes a funny face as we steer towards the dam
The boat was finally repaired from all the damage suffered during our Mozambican adventure and had to be taken for a spin in order to run in the new pistons. So Haartbespoort dam was a natural choice as we are aware that it’s heavily polluted and and infested with algae and water hyacinths.
Another factor that makes it an attractive target is the closeness to the nuclear research facility at Pelindaba, the place where South africa built it’s first nuclear bombs and is now doing research for the pebble bed reactor they are so keen to build.
In flagranti: putting the orgonite were it belongs!
In the background Pelindaba nuclear research facility
I am not sure if the orgone-ite will do something about the infestation with the invasive water hyacinths that are clogging up so many African waters these days. After all it doesn’t help against mosquitoes either. But surely, gifting such a large water body so close to a nuclear facilty will have an impact.
I did drop more than 30 TBs on the terrain of Pelindaba in 2003 btw, when it was much less protected and secured than it is nowadays.
Then they were not yet sure what to do with it, after South Africa had officially reliquished it’s nuclear weapons aspirations. so they wanted to turn it into a “hatchery” business park for innovative new ventures nurtured by the government.
I think now with the global warming scam lending renewed “carbon credibility” to big nukes, they are very busy preparing for a nuclear future here in South Africa.
Another reason why they love nukes so much is the financial investment volume they call for.
The banksters just love to create billions of dollars worth of new debt instruments, (money out of thin air for which they can charge interest) especially if they are guaranteed by a relatively solvent government like South Africa.
Oh, all the money that can be made by creating this debt and then trading it down the bankster feeding chain.
Millions of people producing their own free energy would of course only spoil that fiesta which is why it’s not happening, not because of technical limitations.
Zoom onto Pelindaba: In need of orgone-ite
Nuclear energy generation is DOR (Deadly Orgone eneRgy) par excellence. It doesn’t go much more DOR than that. Maybe “Hot Fusion” is worse but that process has not yet been mastered as we all know. We believe that all the cancer and genetic mutation observed around commercial nukes is due to the massive DOR cloud hanging over these sites of accelerated entropy. Just like with the cellphone towers, it’s not the electromagnetic aspect of the emissions that makes us sick. It’s the etheric. That’s why every nuke needs to be ringfenced with lots of Orgone-ite and earthpiped as well.
Someone told us of a guy in Ausralia who publicly stated that a nuclear reaction cannot take place in a strong positive orgone field. Soon after making this information public he was visted by four men in dark suits who told him to shut up.
That was before the grass roots orgone-ite movement became so wide spread and the knowledge of orgone energy so common that it’s now impossible for the darksiders to remove this information from the public realm with such crude measures.
Instead, they have now taken to infiltration and “spin” whereby “false gurus” are planted into the interested community, seemingly promoting the good cause but in fact detracting from the empowering simplicity of basic orgone-ite gifting.
Do not trust anybody who makes orgone gifting sound difficult, OK?
Making orgonite is simple, everbody can do it and everybody can gift their environment with great effect without any esoteric or scientific knowledge whatsoever.
Never forget that!
That’s the first layer of discernment you need to use when evaluating information on the subject.
HAARPy sky clearing up after the orgone deed is done
When we drove out the sky had looked a bit soupy, indistinct and “flat” which is typical fo lots of electromagnetic interference. MAssive orgone gifting reglarly opens up such soupy and flat skies, first “exposing” the electromagnetic ripples before it starts forming into distict and well articulated clouds, mostly cumulus.
That's how an orgone charged sky looks like in rain mode
This is how an orgone rich sky looks like in the build up for rain. I love it! You will learn to notice the difference as you start having your own gifting experiences.
The damage done: Haarties after the "sabotage"
The deed is done: approximately 150 TBs along the border and through the middle. Let’s see if the lake can recover now.
Southern Africa busted - orgone gifts are blue dots, cloud busters little flags
That’s the status quo of our orgone gifting effort so far. Next year we will adress minow gaps in South Africa and Botswana and look after “special places” closer to home.
If an opportunity for a long distance expedition arises, we will of course take it.
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Posted by Georg on Nov 17, 2009 in Orgonise Africa announcements and news | 0 comments
Christmas is coming on rapidly
and what could be more appropriate as a gift than life giving Orgone-ite* from Orgonise Africa?
Don’t chastise me for talking about christmas so early. I know, we all hate those reindeers that are showing their red noses in malls and department stores already in the middle of October. (don’t even mention the “muzak” that goes with it, “jingle bells, jingle bells…”)
Are they bringing orgone-ite* and orgone zappers this time?
Fact is that most of you, my dear customers, live somewhere far away from us South Africans and postal mail takes it’s time to reach you. As you may know, we always use the good old post office and not the fancy and much more expensive courier companies for our shipping . It has proven to be the best cost / performance ratio over the years and we like “one stop shopping” as much as anyone else. Against common belief 99.5% of all parcels do arrive within reasonable time. The odd ones that get lost once in a while are on us. That means we replace or refund them to you and then wait a year or two for the postal insurance to pay out. (just joking)
Basically we have three options:
- Surface Mail – the grandmother of all shipping methods. It’s incredibly slow but very cheap (relatively spoken) and the stuff really arrives, believe it or not! Times are totally unpredictable and range from 4-12 weeks. Sometimes a customer has been lucky and surface mail arrived in 5 days because they used some excess airfreight capacity.
Normally surface mail really travels by ship! Use this if you want to order large and heavy items like cloud busters, 1000s of TBs and the like. It’s economical and we guarantee the receipt of your wares, albeit not the transit times (we couldn’t, even if we tried) If you order something you want for Christmas by surface mail, you are gambling your luck already. I’d says the chance is 80% that it would still arrive in time oif you order today, but you cannot count on it, ok!
- Airmail – That used to be the fast option when our parents were young. It’s still reasonably fast but like all things postal, it is not very predictable. We hear mostly of those who get delayed because the other 99% are happy and say nothing. From our experience we can say that anything between 5-28 days can happen. To most international destinations including North America, Western Europe or Australia/New Zealand and some Asian destinations (Hongkong and Singapoore for example), 1-2 weeks is typical, but you cannot rely on it. If you want a fair 99% chance to receive your Orgonise Africa gifts in time, you’d definitely have to order before or on 25 November.
- EMS - This is quite a nifty service offered by the post office these days. It’s called “Expedited Mail Service” and it’s somewhere between a full courier service and airmail. In the US the corresponding postal service is called “Global Express”. Runtimes are mostly 4-5 working days. (add working days for our order processing) It is more trackable than postal items. (please don’t ask me about tracking of postal items internationally – it’s a nightmare and the best thing is to just sit an wait) The initial costs for small percels are much higher than airmail, so for single zappers and other small orders, airmail is still the best. But as soon as the weight gets a bit higher, EMS is only slighty more expensive than Airmail. If you make up your mind late about your christmas order, that will be your only chance to get it in time. I’d say 12 December is a reasonable cut-off date wher I can still promiose 99% chance of receiving it in time.
Generally you must understand that shipping is subject to the performance of a lot of third parties over whom we have no control. For most of you our parcels will be foreign parcels and these are subject to customs clearance. This can sometimes cause delays. We send them out with the required documentation to the best of our knowledge but delays can happen. Don’t get scared now! This is business as usual and you have our full guarantee for the receipt of your orders. In the very rare case that it really doesn’t arrive, we resend or refund without fuss.
Innovation and improvement is what every successful enterprise thrives on. Orgonise Africa is no exception to that rule. We constantly strive to improve how we make things so that they look nicer and work better.
New African Muti Orgone-ite* HHG:
New finish African Muti Orgone-ite* HHG - the contiuous overglaze just looks stunning
Previously the Making of the Muti HHG was not so simple as the decorative inlays tended to shift in the mould or cause bubbles or holes. We have (after a year of experimentation) found a potter who could make us sufficiently smooth and even conical porcellaine moulds. This is also benefiting the looks of our Standard HHGs tremendously. I think this is a beautiful Christmas present for anybody, even if they don’t know anything about Orgone-ite*, don’t you? As you may know, Muti is African Tradional medicine and works on a vibratory level just like healing stones or other things that may be added to Orgone-ite*. The herbal muti we use is made by our friend Dr. Chipangula, the president of the Traditional Healers Council of Malawi, a body that represents all of the 200 000 traditional healers in that sunny and friendly country. The muti protects against black magic and witchcraft and furthers general wellbeing and prosperity. What more can you want?
The Muti Orgonite Brick
The Orgone-ite* Muti Brick with a full size SBB coil and north facing neodymium magnet combines the idea of the St. Buster’s Button (SBB) with the Muti Orgone-ite*.
The Muti Orgone-ite* brick comes in a beautiful African printed fabric bag
It is larger than the similar rectangular amulett and hence much stronger.
The Muti Orgone-ite* Brick is a powerful hands-on healing tool and generally feels so good to have around.
I can hardly imagine a nicer Christmas gift than this powerful and decorative piece of orgone art with a distinctly African feel.
The new Howitzer Unit / Simple Zapper combo
Finally we’ve had a box made for us that accomodates both functions in one device. You can use this to power any pulsed orgone emitting contraption such as any of our wands (Except the PW deLuxe that has it’s own inbuilt zapper unit) or SP crystal and our Howitzers (the unit will included there in the future)
This sexy red box allows you to power your Wand, Howitzer or SP 24/7 from a 9 or 12V wall transformer.
The Howitzer Unit has a DC socket to allow you to hook up your orgone pulser to a wall transformer and run it without battery. Presently we are not selling the transformers yet, because our customers live in so many different parts of the world with different electricity systems etc. Get one at the nearest electronic shop, that should not be difficult. The socket is pretty standard, so if you take the unit along you should find one that fits. (Most of the cheap Chinese ones now come with multiple adaptors so one should fit.
New beautiful Orgone-ite* Pendants
Friederike has also come up with some nice new pendants and I believe she will surprise us with a few more artistic creations soon. She has mastered the technique of making very small SBB coils, so all the small pendants have an embedded Coil now for much enhanced orgone power. You should wear this on your heart chakra, as it will be greatly stimulated by the orgone life force of these beautiful little things. Different healing stone additions emphazise different aspects of healing of course.
Check these out, the detailed description of ingedients is on the website when you follow the links.
The small Sugilite Orgone-ite* Pendant
The new Sugilite Orgone-ite* pendant
Sugilite is one of the most recently discovered and rarest gemstone minerals known to man. It’s rich shades of purple instantly made it a highly sought after and revered gemstone. It is only found near Kuruman in the Kalahari semi desert (increasingly lush and green thanks to our continued gifting efforts)
We received a few large blocks of it from our friend, the poet and minerals collector Donald Rikiert.
Donald Riekiert – the poet of the Kalahari
Sugilite can help to clear the mind, making the way open for the rising of consciousness. It is also beneficial in opening and centering of the Heart Chakra. No wonder, you will want one of these for yourself and one each for all your loved ones!
Small Lapis Lazuli Orgone-ite* Pendant
Lapis Lazuli is often referred to as the stone of truth. Worn on the throat chakra, it helps to speak out long withheld issues that have been “stuck in your throat” for too long.
Lapis lazuli – strengthens authenticity and truthfulness.
On a more corporeal level it helps with all afflictions in the throat area, lowers blood pressure and slows down hormonal cycles.
Last but not least: Our Christmas gift to you!
Christmas is orgone-ite gifting time
Yes, we want you to order big this time, recession or no recession!
That’s why we make our Christmas gift bigger as your order get’s bigger. For all of you, even with the smallest order there is a gift of 10% off all purchases when you use the Christmas gift coupon “Christmas” until bold 25 November
And when you make up your mind and order for more than 2500 Rand (approximately 230 Euro or 345 US dollar) you can punch in “Superchristmas” and get 15% off all the goodies you load onto the reindeer’s back. If you want get adventurous, put in an order for more than 5000 Rand 460 Euro or 690 US dollars punch in “Megachristmas” and receive a full 20% discount on all your orgone-ite and zappers.
In order to redeem these coupons, you have to punch in the appropriate coupon code in the coupon redemption field on the second checkout page where you chose your payment method.
Zapper discount extended another week!
Since it took me so long to describe and upload all the new products (first had to photograph them of course) this post is going out towards the intended closure of our attractive 20% discount on all zapper products. Many of you will therefore not even have noticed this opportunity. This is particularly hot for all resellers, health shop owners and group orders.
A precious gift – The Eldorado Gold Orgone Zapper
They combine with the standard bulk discounts and the christmas gift coupons. So you can reap an – for a very limited time only – unheard off 60% discount on our zappers if you order this week in some quantity, ending Sunday 22nd of November. Stocks may run low during this unique promotion, so don’t wait too long or you may have to wait a bit longer for your large order to be filled.
An example:
The Standard Orgone Zapper costs approx 64.34 US dollar normally (already a very, very attractive price, I think. The US dollar price is only indicative and fluctuates with Rand/Dollar exchange rates btw.) With the 20% zapper discount that will be only U$51.47
If you buy 30 or more, this goes down to U$30.88. Apply the “Mega Christmas” coupon to that and it’s a mere U$24.70.
Pssssst….! Let’s do this quickly before Friederike finds out.
She has not allowed me to ever sell an orgone zapper for under 30 U$, no matter what quantity.
And I will not repeat this opportunity or hold it open longer fo any one, not even our dearest longstanding wholesale customers.
You snooze-you lose, that’s it! Basta, finito, ok?
Woohoo, this has become a long one. I hope you’re still with me!
I enjoyed writing it and I hope that somehow shows between the lines.
I thank you all for your continued support
in gratitude,
Georg and the The Orgonise Africa Team.
*”orgonite”, the term commonly used to describe the orgone generating mix of resin and small metal particles has been trademarked by its alleged inventor Karl Welz who recently had about 40 of our products, that were using “orgonite” in the name or description removed from Ebay. In order to avoid further unneccessary conflict, we are now using the form “orgone-ite” in our product descriptions. The worldwide community of “orgonite” gifters and experimenters is all about open source shared knowledge, but sadly Mr. Welz believes that hanging on to his measly copyright which was obtained without consulting the then already substantial network of “orgonite”-experimenters is a great idea. May he live happily ever after!
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Posted by Georg on Sep 30, 2009 in Georg's Ramblings and Musings | 0 comments
Just while we are happily travelling in the US of A, a well placed strike at our legs was undertaken in order to dislodge us.
(Oh how they love to hack away at our legs when they think we are not in a position to strike back)
This time suddenly all of our products listed on ebay that contain the word “orgonite” in their description were struck fro the listing by Ebay on insistence of one Karl Welz who claims he has trademarked the word “orgonite”.
Most people here in his network have probaly never heard his name and that says something about the validity of his claim to fame, doesn’t it.
We and also Don Croft have always given him credit for first having used this term, but basically it’s a variation of the generic term Orgone, first introduced around 1942 by Wilhelm Reich. Adding the recognised English suffix -ite doesn’t make it less generic, does it?
It’s a pity that Karl Welz never followed the invitation to share his experience in an open source network like all of us orgone warriors here do. He was invited with an open heart. Now he’s chosen to be a miserly little man, fighting a thing that has become bigger than he can possibly comprehend. Karlie, your in above your league here!
As far as I remember, talk of his alleged trademark started a few years after Orgonite had become a widely used generic term in the orgone network, then mostly concentrated on Stuart Jackson’s old Cloudbuster Forum.
Here’s some more on the subject or fair usage of terms like Orgonite:
From: www.publaw.com/fairusetrade.html
A trademark owner by choosing a descriptive term as its trademark must live with the result that an author remains free to write about or use the trademark in its “primary“ or descriptive sense. Legal doctrine defines fair use of a trademark as the “reasonable and good faith use of a descriptive term that is another’s trademark to describe rather than to identify the user’s goods, services or business“.’
From the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition:
Orgone
. . . In the psychoanalytical theory of Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), a vital energy or life force which supposedly informs the universe and can be collected and stored in an orgone accumulator or box for subsequent use in the treatment of mental and physical illnesses. Also attrib. . . .
—ite, suffix
. . . 2. b. Mineral. The systematic ending of the names of mineral species, comprising names of ancient
origin . . . and a vast number of modern names in which -ite is added to an element expressing colour, structure, physical characters or affinities, or to the name of a locality, discoverer, mineralogist, distinguished scientist, or other person whom the discoverer may have desired to commemorate. Examples are albite, azurite, melanite, dichroite, grphite, apatite, calcite, syenite, labradorite, leadhillite, humbodtite, wemerite, brewsterite, danaite, darwinite. Earlier names of minerals have in some cases been displaced by names in
-ite, and some names with other endings as -ane, -in, etc. have been conformed to the -ite type. . . .
Our presence on ebay has been an ongoing experiment. It represents only about 15% of our business but costs me almost half my energy. We have been harassed there from the beginning and it doesn’t seem to end any time soon.
Thank god, our main webshop is open for business.
Georg
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Posted by Georg on Jul 2, 2009 in Buster's diary | 0 comments
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8039775.stm
http://www.clubofmozambique.com/solutions1/sectionnews.php?secao=mining&id=15383&tipo=one
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115×195314
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=nw20090616090043954C470087
http://allafrica.com/stories/200905080951.html
http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20090518161737331
http://www.zimbio.com/Orgone+Energy/news/h2PKKQlJBXt/Four+held+Cahora+Bassa+sabotage+bid
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-199500729.html
http://www.capetimes.co.za/?fArticleId=4969773
http://architectafrica.com/node/1355
http://sundaystandard.info/news/news_item.php?NewsID=4930&GroupID=1
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Posted by Georg on Jun 26, 2009 in Buster's diary | 0 comments
The Great Zambezi Expedition Plan
It was meant to be another Orgonise Africa expedition like many before… only bigger and better: The Great Zambezi Expedition No 2. In 2007, I had ‘gifted’ the Zambezi along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe for about 600 km. Now we wanted to follow this great African river further; down to the sea, all the way through Mozambique – and even connect from the delta to Vilankulos, where my previous ocean-gifting acivities had reached so far. The previous Zambezi expedition had already produced wonderful results; namely increased rainfalls in Southern Zambia and Northern Zimbabwe. Together with the recent gifting of lake Malawi, we hoped to achieve a real breakthrough with this expedition.
Water gifting on a large scale has the potential to energetically ‘liberate’ whole regions – and when I mean regions, I’m talking large parts of subcontinents like Southern Africa, not just a few counties in a small European country. I’m talking of thousands of ‘Towerbusters’ distributed over thousands of kilometres of waterways. The immediate visible effects are not as dramatic as the massive gifting of deathforce transmitters (misnamed ‘cellphone towers’ or ‘radar installations’).
Nevertheless, they are profound and long lasting.
Water is the main ingredient of life; a carrier of information. Increasing attention is paid by the worldwide alternative research community to water’s ability to store emotional information (see the well publicised work of Massuru Emoto or the recent DVD: Water – the Great Mystery, available at www.waterthemovie.co.za).
The Zambezi is one of the truly great rivers of Africa, the third most important one after the Nile, and the Congo. The Zambezi region in Mozambique has seen much of the atrocious fighting of a decade long drawn out civil war and much subsequent suffering and trauma. What could be a more suitable feature to gift in order to uplift the energy of this country?
The planned route by boat: Cahora Bassa, down the Zambezi and along the coast to Vilanculos.
The satanic pentagram over Zimbabwe.
A few months before our departure, Francie, one of the psychics that regularly participate in the chat on www.etheicwarriors.com, identified the above satanic pentagram as a figure installed by ritual black magic in order to hold Zimbabwe down energetically. Two of the end points of this slightly distorted pentagram were within reach of our expedition, and we were happy to include them in our target list. One was near the small settlement Mecossa on the way from the Gorongosa National Park to Tete, the other near the Luangwa confluence with the Zambezi; the Western boundary of Lake Cahora Bassa.
Getting Ready
The preparations for this trip were thorough and expensive. I bought a new boat with two engines in very good condition and a lot of new safari equipment. I had custom-made fuel tanks manufactured for the boat, in order to be able to store a maximum amount of fuel for the long trips we were to make between possible refuelling points. The longest I figured would be from Marromeu on the Zambezi to Beira; approximately 340 km. There were many uncertainties to contend with and not a lot of information available. This part of the world is not a tourist area…
Obstacles Mounting
Getting there was hard. The unspeakably bad roads of Mozambique were shredding the boat trailer to pieces – we lost a wheel after Vilanculos and were delayed for many hours, driving back to source new wheel bearings. Luckily, the axle was undamaged. This happened many more times before we reached the Cahora Bassa Dam. When we reached the Dam after 5 days of travelling, we were proud of the obstacles we had overcome so far, but also aware that there was marked resistance to the success of the trip. Was this black magic etheric resistance or just bad luck; an oversight in my preparation?
After a day of preparing the boat we took it out for a first test drive, which went well. We were quite happy with its performance, so we prepared for the great day of the big trip to Zumbo, on the other end of the lake, and back. Driving up and down to Songo to get more petrol, packing camping stuff and Orgonite on the boat filled the rest of the day. We felt we were ready and set our alarm for early next morning in order to be moving by first sunlight.
The boat was in the water by 6am, but we found that it was totally overloaded and, with that weight, we could not get it up to speed – instead of about 40 km/h we were only moving at 10-12.
We had to decide quickly. The solution, not easy but necessary, was that only Tino and I would do this trip and the others would remain at the camp. We also reduced the camping gear and food supply. Finally, Tino and I were up-and-running, and in a good mood… the weather was great, almost no wind, and the water very calm.
When we reached the large open water after about 40 km, one of the engines started to behave strangely, gradually losing power. We stopped to take a look. It took us hours to take the carburettor apart, clean and reassemble it, but there was no marked improvement. In fact, the engine would not start again at all.
Finally, we puttered back using one engine, at a speed of just 10km/h. Our comrades looked on with big, dissapointed eyes to see us back so early and without having accomplished much. At least we had laid out a string of TBs over the 40 km we had travelled; dropping one into the river approximately every 1000m.
The next day was spent further dismantling that fateful engine with the help of Gary and Steven, two friendly people who were working nearby. We ended the day thinking that there was something wrong with the ignition coils.
Forcing it: The Fateful Trip on the Pontoon Ferry
I guess this should have been the point of going home after so many warning signs and obstacles; just a few too many to be ignored. I would not accept defeat, as it would not only mean breaking-up the expedition, but also writing-off so much time and money that we had invested. When would I next be able to repeat this and get this far? When would I be able to again gather a team of four?
Since we had mastered the previous obstacles quite well, I was willing to push the envelope.
Lake Cahora Bassa – The distance from the dam wall at Songo to Zumbo is about 240km.
The Cahora Bassa Dam wall – a national monument?
While we were quite depressed about the problem with the boat, (was it sabotage?), we heard that a weekly pontoon ferry was making the trip to Zumbo, and so we decided to use that for gifting the lake. The plan was born that Carlos, Tino and Prophet would do the trip on the ferry, while I would stay behind and push for the boat to get fixed in the meantime. If I could get the boat back in shape, we would at least salvage the objective of gifting lake Cahora Bassa and accomplish the greater part, or all of, the original mission.
The ferry was a pathetic contraption – basically, a rusty platform atop of welded-together oil drums with a shaggy-looking corrugated iron roof on top. It was driven by the type old diesel engine used for a water pump, with a moving speed of about 10-11 km/h tops. The trip to Zumbo by ferry would take three days, and another three on top of that if my friends could not find an alternative way of returning.
So the morning they left on the ferry (Wednesday 15th April), I got myself busy with the boat engine immediately. Luis, the resident mechanic of the fishing lodge where we stayed, had already stripped the engine and we soon found that the pistons were burnt and the piston rings had seized. How was that possible on an almost brand-new engine? The other engine was fed from the same petrol supply through a water filter and had brought us home safely, so it could not have been an omission to put 2-stroke oil into one of the petrol tanks. It would have inevitably killed both engines. I cannot exclude the possibility of sabotage.
Trying to find spare parts was a nightmare – it turned out that these engines were so new that the dealers did not stock spare pistons, as nobody expected anything to go wrong with them. Luis, an experienced ‘bush mechanic’ and a really nice guy, too, had a friend who could weld aluminium, so we tried to fill the holes in the pistons with welding material and then filed them down to the correct shape. This wasn’t 100% successful, but it looked promising.
In the meantime, I had made 2 new friends – Neil and Caroline – who were operating a fishing rig with cooling room on lake Cahora Bassa. They offered to lend me an engine for the rest of trip, and we brought it to the lodge ready to fit to my boat the next day. I noticed a group of soldiers lingering around the parking lot. Undeterred, I decided to invite Neil, Caroline and Gary to have dinner at Songo town as a ‘thank you’ for their generous help. We all went back to the lodge to dress up a little for the evening.
On the road to Songo, we were suddenly stopped by a group of soldiers and plain-clothed police. They gesticulated wildly while wielding their AK47 rifles in a menacing way, shouting, “Back to lodge, back to lodge!” It soon turned out that they were only interested in me and not in my companions. I already knew then that this was related to our gifting activity in some way, but tried to stay calm and collected.
Dammned!
The soldiers and policemen followed us to the lodge, where we parked the car and went to the restaurant/bar. We were asked to wait there for further instructions. My new friends asked if I had done anything wrong, so I set out to explain what I was doing with the Orgonite (I had been a bit discreet about the mission before) and that we had previously experienced similar problems in Zimbabwe.
Nick, the manager of the Ugezi Tiger lodge had seen the Orgonite before and knew that it was harmless. The police conveyed to Nick via one of the Portuguese-speaking employees that I was not allowed to move the car or leave the lodge. Senior police officers would arrive the next day to talk to me.
The following day, around seven important-looking people arrived in a convoy of vehicles. Among them was a ‘Commander Jorge’, the police commander of the Cahora Bassa area, and two guys who introduced themselves as belonging to ‘counterintelligence’. I knew then that I was in trouble.
They told me that my friends had been observed throwing things into the lake from the ferry and asked if I could say anything about that. I proceeded to show them a few Towerbusters, explaining what they were and why we threw them into the lake. After a while of looking at the TBs they became a bit friendlier, but in a way not really to be trusted. They finally departed, saying I should inform them when my friends were back from the ferry trip, as they wanted to talk to them as well.
Is it worth mentioning that I bought a bottle of wine and paid for a few other drinks for the officers in a futile attempt to ingratiate myself and dispel the menacing atmosphere? It later became clear that this had been orchestrated much higher up – there was never an opening to bribe or charm our way out of it. This had been set-up to punish and frighten us from deep inside the security jungle, and Commander Jorge and his men were only pawns in the game.
Busted: In the Slammer!
When Tino, Prophet and Carlos came back from their arduous tour-de-force, exhausted, tired and dirty, they hardly found the time change their dirty clothes or take a shower, let alone sit down and relax, when a whole convoy of police, soldiers, and security people already arrived at the lodge. They had obviously been monitored all the way.
After a short and still civil talk around the table, we were asked in a firm but still polite way to settle our bills at the lodge and pack up our car and follow them to the police station. The packing was supervised by armed police and military.
At the police station we were asked into the Commander’s office for an interview. All this was still polite and based on our voluntary cooperation. No warrant of arrest was ever produced. We repeated our truthful explanation of the purpose of our trip and the nature of the Orgonite. I also asked them to check out my website www.orgoniseafrica.com for confirmation that this activity was on public record and told them about my book Operation Paradise. I did not have the feeling they were too interested… somehow their minds were already ‘set’ in a different way, and, at the end of the interview, we were escorted to the neighbouring prison – a converted garage. Significantly, Commander Jorge advised the officer who escorted us, “No beating, no torture”. I guess that means it has to be said in order for these things not to take place.
The scene enfolding in the dim light was weird to say the least. The open space of the garage was populated by prisoners mostly lingering around an open cooking fire, all eyes directed at us. We were of course anxious and afraid of what was waiting for us…
(to be continued in Part II…)
Part II -Preview
Sabotage, espionage, terrorism: accused of unspeakable crimes
Battle by media – the top guns get involved
Punishment without crime
Staring down the beast: They lost it!
Afterthoughts
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