by Hannes Wessels It’s nearly forty years since Rhodesia disappeared into history and the country became Zimbabwe. What followed was thirty-seven years of bloodshed, … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels As a father of two impressionable teenage girls I am having a tough and at times frustrating time trying to undo the … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels Reading Jacques Pauw’s explosive new book, “The Presidents Keepers” is depressing, enlightening and terrifying. The scale of corruption and state-sanctioned criminality in … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels After 37 years of brutally destructive rule it looks like the curtain may finally be coming down on the Mugabe regime. … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels In South Africa the mood across the media and political spectrum is one of jubilation. On Wednesday last week the Finance Minister … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels Jeremy Clarke in his Spectator, ‘Lowlife’ column raises a very interesting question with regard to people who are anti-Trump and asks … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels The West has probably never been more polarised along political and ideological grounds than it is today. The accession to power … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels Looking back at the personalities and institutions involved in the demise of Rhodesia and the forced transition to Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels I was relieved to finish this because the reading was an emotional and often painful roller-coaster of a ride that left me … Read more →
by Hannes Wessels It has taken the well publicised murder of Tristan Voorspuy on the Laikipia Plateau to draw attention to the recent ‘land invasions’ … Read more →