Daily Dispatches

By Reginald H. Howe
www.goldensextant.com
February 12, 2001

Not until 80 years after the war began did Thomas Pakenham publish
his authoritative history, quot;The Boer Warquot; (Weidenfeld amp;
Nicholson, 1979; Abacus paperback edition, 1992, reprinted 2000, to
which all page cites refer). Relying on material largely unavailable
earlier, Pakenham emphasizes at the outset that he uncovered four new

Johannesburg, South Africa / Monday, February 12, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Today went extremely well.

First I met with the National Union of Mineworkers. Attending were
Mr. S. Zokwana, president: G. Mantashe, generalsSecretary; A. Palane,
deputy general secretary: and Gino Govender, co-ordinator of the
union's strategy unit.

Then, I headed off to Pretoria and a meeting in the board room at the

By Bill Murphy, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Saturday, February 10, 2001

-- Johannesburg, South Africa.

My meeting yesterday with Ms. Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka,
South Africa's minister for mines and energy, went very
well. Attending the meeting was Thabo Mafoko of the
Department of Minerals and Energy International
Relations. Ms. Ngcuka left directly from our breakfast
meeting to take her seat in Parliament to hear the

11:20p ET Thursday, February 8, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy will be extending his stay in
South Africa by a few days to accommodate the many
requests he has received for meetings with participants
in the gold industry there.

Those meetings include the South African mining
minister and the president of the National Union of
Mineworkers. The union president told Murphy that the