The Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky died today in 1950. The poor man had taken very early retirement (at 29) because he was suffering from schizophrenia. Half the time he thought he was a racehorse.
In other news ...
Jan van Riebeeck of the Dutch East India Company, gave orders to his men landing at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 that anybody who mistreated an African was to receive 50 lashes of the whip in the presence of their victim.
How ironic that the descendants of these men slaughtered hundreds of Zulus at Blood River in 1836 and went on to set up Apartheid in our own time.
