by Hannes Wessels As far as I can ascertain I don’t have any British blood running through my veins. My family has been in Africa for almost 400 years so there may be some Bushman or Hottentot blood but no British. Despite that, and despite being a descendent of Afrikaners interned in Boer War […]
by Hannes Wessels Most people I know are thrilled the Trump era is over. And watching his performance in his final days they may be right; but with him gone and Democrats about to take control of the White House and both houses of congress, I lament the lost opportunities and from a place far […]
by Hannes Wessels Most people I associate with miss it completely but with the rise of Biden to the American presidency, the growth of authoritarianism throughout the world has been accelerated. Trump, for all his alleged faults, tended towards the libertarian view of how countries are best managed. He believed, as did Ronald Reagan, […]
by Hannes Wessels For anyone genuinely interested in African wildlife and conservation Mike Bromwitch’s updated second edition of the 80-year history of the Rhodesian Game Department is not only hugely informative, it’s also an action-packed, true-life adventure story about extraordinary people and extraordinary events during an extraordinary time which kicked off in 1928. One example: […]
by Hannes Wessels I know the overwhelming majority of my fellow South Africans are jubilant at the prospect of a Joe Biden/Kamala Harris presidency and I know this sentiment is shared by the majority of people around the world. As the only Western leader to express any interest at all in the plight of this […]
by Hannes Wessels White people everywhere, including my own children, are being encouraged, in some cases compelled, to acknowledge guilt for the cardinal crime of being born white. An entire generation has been taught, nay indoctrinated, to understand and believe that Europeans have done almost nothing throughout history, other than kill, plunder and enslave. As […]
by Hannes Wessels Calling for African countries to wield more influence at the United Nations is nothing new; it has been going on for decades. Robert Mugabe, while busy destroying the country he was tasked to govern, routinely lambasted the world body at the General Assembly for thwarting his efforts to be more influential in […]
by Hannes Wessels Looking on as the EFF (Economic Freedom Front) men and women in red run amuck, vandalising over 400 Clicks stores around the country with impunity, causing millions of Rands worth of damage, all sorts of questions and harsh reminders jump out at me about how we got here and why we’re in […]
by Hannes Wessels As somebody who loves the game of cricket and a keen supporter of the South African team, who yearns to enjoy sport unsullied by political agendas, it was with dismay that I watched Graeme Smith, Faf du Plessis and AB De Villiers elect to go down on one knee and pay […]
by Hannes Wessels RW Johnson’s new book, ‘Foreign Native’, is enlightening, entertaining but also disturbing. But, like everything he writes, the narrative reeks with honesty. I humbly hold him in the highest regard, not only for his scholarly brilliance but because he is one of those very rare individuals; a deeply committed liberal, so prominent […]