Michael Tellinger is a South African author, politician, explorer and founder of the

Ubuntu Party The Ubuntu Party was a minor South African political party founded in 2012 by author and songwriter Michael Tellinger. Based on the principles of Ubuntu Contributionism, the party espouses Tellinger's pseudolegal ideas. The party aimed to int ...

which supports the supply of free resources across society. He has led a campaign against banks and

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s and championed

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ideas to obtain money from financial institutions. He is also a promoter of

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influenced by

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's ideas of

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. presenting the

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, interpreted by mainstream

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as 16th century boundary markers, as 'Adam's Calendar', an alien-built structure at the center of a network of

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s across Southern Africa which purportedly channeled energy in

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Author

Tellinger authored or co-authored the following books, three of them self-published through his Zulu Planet Publishers.: * * * *

Politics

Tellinger founded a South African political party called

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Education

Michael Tellinger graduated in 1983 from the University Of Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, with a B.Pharmacy degree.

Music

He spent much of his early years in the arts performing on stage and screen. As part of the duo "Stirling & Tellinger" he had several music hits in South Africa. In 1986, he worked in Los Angeles for Cannon Films as a sound designer and editor; and wrote and recorded the controversial anti-apartheid song "We come from Johannesburg", which was banned under the previous regime. His latest contribution to the arts was a song called "Side By Side With Angels", for the TSUNAMI disaster fund in 2005, which featured a number of top South African artists.

Campaign against banks

In 2012, Tellinger was sued in the

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for nonpayment of his R828 015 home loan granted in 2007. Tellinger's

argument, in a nutshell, was that banks create money "out of the air" and therefore he could do the same. He sent Standard Bank a piece of paper which he said was a "negotiable instrument" for the final payment of the loan. Standard Bank took him to court and within minutes his case was dismissed by Judge Jackson Mabsele. Tellinger was ordered to pay the loan and legal fees of both parties. There was also the possibility that he could be sued for defamation and be declared a "troublesome litigant". He was quoted as saying after the court case that he would take the case to the

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References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Tellinger, Michael Tellinger, Michael Tellinger, Michael Pseudoarchaeology Pseudolaw {{SouthAfrica-bio-stub