Your message 3 on Sunday 11 August 2019
As an Africander I have pro sentiments but we must get our facts straight ….Even those nourished by the crystal clear waters of Kilimanjaro are human and make errors. I refer to your statement *that the Tower of St. Augustine? Such gesture would be the first time that a brown saint comes to the aid of white saints.* I would like to re mind Goans of good spirit who consume Feni that St. Augustine, that great thinker was an African, so was his mother St Monica*. * That crumbling edifice St Augustine was not built by the Portuguese whites alone ….do they build with basaltic blocks in Europe ….Local labour and masons were used in hundreds. For me St Augustine’s was a source of inspiration from the age of 11 when I was nearly shot by an African soldier in the service of the the Portugese. The timely intervention of my father and the Portuguese white officer who was less trigger prone saved me from being a casualty. I am definitely Pro St Vaz, Pro Basilica......there are great sentiments scattered throughout your intervention Adolfo in Dar es Salaam