Wednesday, February 04, 2026

14 Last of the Rhodesians: Chronicles of an African anarchist – The Gokwe Kid – Searching for Rhodesia 14

 

Journal 04.02.2026.

 

Present location - Blue Beach Resort

Sam Roi Yot (Hua Hin), Thailand: Westen (Hua Hin, Cha Am, River Kwai), Thailand

 

That is where I am at the moment. Crazy, bat shit place but first I have to wrap up the last insane trip…

 

6 days Barefoot through the Desert -  Eilat, Israel - continued.

 

So, I just wandered and shuffled along the main drag following the coast. First -South. Beach areas with grass canopy shelters. The fancier ones with booze and snack bars charging an arm, leg and pension. All almost empty. A few divers diving just a few metres from the shore. I drifted slowly past the harbour. Closed. A small grey, coast guard ship cruises just a little faster than my own crippling gait.

Considering all the argy-bargy that had just recently paused in another bit of the Holy Land, the only military presence were some uniformed kids with guns getting on and off from an occasional bus, coming home from a tour or going to one. The security guards outside any shopping malls were all puffing away on mind dulling smokes and the whole place just had the feel of capitalist cabalistic rot. Oh, you see the odd concrete air raid shelter. No idea how you get into one. I tried of course.

 

Just like the entire Egyptian strip but costing millions more. Beautiful empty apartment blocks, half-finished hotels, one in construction next door to the kip I was staying in had about four people on it and three were black, one worked, the others debated. Even a small shop being ‘renovated’ had ‘workers’ loafing and explaining to their Boss as to the reason that almost fuck all has been achieved was due to the fact they needed to be paid more to loaf about and shoot the fat…hah-hah. Man, have I seen that bull shit before?

 


And amid this weird mixture I take an interesting look at one particular block of flats. They also on ‘Main Street’. People actually live in the place. Ethnicity - I would hazard a guess at Somalian. Refugees from Israel’s very weird latest plan with respect to that area of the Middle East.

 

And, of course…fly tipping.  Just the same all, same all where ever I go. Just dump your rubbish over a fence or on the side of the road and let the wind blow the millions of plastic wrappers, shopping bags and bottles around.

 

Walking on...

 

Surfaces one would see in other towns and cities covered with placards, stickers, graffiti and such, had here postcard to large banner size pictures of the killed IDF and the hostages from the latest round of hostilities. We never did that in Rhodesia. I don’t recall anything more than a small line in the Death and Condolences part of The Rhodesian Herald.

Not my business anymore. When you have the nonsense of ‘my land and your land is my land, and so says the all-encompassing super deity in a book of fairy tales’, me thinks -yeah, whatever… roll a joint and dream on…

 

Still, I am not the kind of horrible person I started out to be, and hopefully continue to be, till either I take myself out (accidently) or taken out (accidently questionable) without my tangent way of thinking. As the great Guru Carl Sagan said ‘Without imagination, we are fucked.’ That might not be a perfect quote but somewhere along that line, because I am going to capture yours…

 


Imagine. There is poor little me, stumbling, shuffling barefoot, incoherently mumbling along to some music playing at full blast on my new headphones, being overtaken by camels, the sky is cloudy, rather windy, and I follow the road past an occasional turnoff (one is for a bicycle trail that goes ALL around Eilat donated by some idiot Jews in Holland. See picture…hah-hah) – when, now well stoned out of and off my kipper, I come across a historical monument to a brave ancestor of mine - Captain Gokwe Kid, the famed sea faring smuggler, siege breaker, drug runner and to be honest, a complete fucking lunatic.

 

When I read the monument about him and his merry crew of cut throats and the amazing act they pulled off, in, what can only be described as not being much larger than a leaking bucket filled with your death wishes as a list. Which had been Christened (do Jews Christen their boats? No idea,) DOLPHIN! One look at it made me conclude that this particular dolphin would not come up from its first dive as it was one, and a much more appropriate name would have been Porpoise because it is like how these loons think in double entendres as in – to what Purpose and is it on Purpose? As I will now explain…

 

On the 5th of June, 1967 with fire and flames being hurled Topsy-Turvey everywhere, the beleaguered land thieving rightful owners (depending which side you’re on,) were in a bit of a pickle. The Gyppo fucker Abdel Nasser, having been treated as nothing more than an uppity monkey by the British government, closed the Straits of Tiran.

The poor Eilattians were cut off from whatever they thought they desperately needed such as designer hand bags and shoes that would still sitting to this day unsold, but worst of all – NO GANJA. And those newly named Israelis love the stuff. And vodka. Their own homemade shit. Cheap as fuck and they use it as tank fuel as well.

 

Now, with the slit of water between the ‘Them and Us’, being used as a ‘no float’, siege/blockade type scenario, Captain ‘Cool Beans’ Gokwe Kid volunteers to bring in the much-needed supplies to the suffering. The chosen ones. Not sure what they were actually chosen for, but I would chose them over- pricing bastards to wear my shoes.  

First, he needs some kind of floating object, and fuck me up the arse with a frozen stave, you can’t in a million years guess where he got one… the same place where they are doing their dodgy shenanigans again - in a place that has been recently been recognised as being an independent state called Somali-la-lo-la-la-land, by non-other than…Israel (hah-hah, you can’t make this shit up!,) and…

 

Completely off his trolley, Captain ‘Cool Beans’ Gokwe Kid buys from Israel’s secret best friends, outside of the United States, several tonnes of the finest hash that the sneaky brothers-in-arms  make in the desert, six pairs of fake Addidas trainers and a whole carton of Victoria’s Secret handbags, bursting at the seams with nothing in them - loads it on his converted and brilliantly disguised fishing boat proclaiming every known disease was on board - that not even Somalian pirates would think of shit ship-jack, and sets sail.

 


And the rest is history. There was some confusion at first, which is usual with this race as the other hearty crewmates had no respect what so ever for the captain because he pointed at NORTH on the map, but the compass showed only MAGNETIC NORTH and who was lying and where was the TRUE NORTH, which caused a short delay after landing up somewhere which was definitely not Eilat - because instead of cheering mobs screaming in happy delirium and throwing kisses of  Sholom’s and Mazeltoves, it was more like screaming hoards of smelly savages throwing Molotov cocktails made from dried camel dung.

After flogging a few of the mutinous Jews, their ancient DNA recognised a Pharoah when he tickles their back with a bit of cat O’ nine, Captain Gokwe Kid soon had them finally pulling their weight and almost without further incident –

besides finding a stowaway that when discovered she kept saying some right croc like ‘Jesus help me. Merciful saviour spare me, Lead me to the path of righteousness!’ They gave her a pair of trainers, pointed to her where the Sea of Galilee was, and to follow in her saviours footsteps and - tossed the mad cow overboard – and then THEY ARRIVED and…

 

Everyone got high, the rest of the trainers were exchanged for a couple of Soviet made tanks, the handbags were converted into breasts implants and sold to the Chinese who promptly sell them on offer on TEMU.  

 

The aggro died down and everyone waited for another rainy day when they can all kick off once again. Which it is has. Several times, I think. Nothing new as we know. It’s been going on for a couple of millenniums so far…

And on I walked.

To BE Continued

(Just toooo funny…)

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