SOS Steve on Sunday 28 February 2021 Greetings my fellow happy taxpayers, Today, and the previous two days in South African history are quite some days. On 27 February 1881 the Boer forces defeated the British at the battle of Majuba, and on the same day in 1900, Boer General Piet Cronje surrendered his army […]
SOS Steve on Sunday 24 January 2021 Greetings fellow mosquito murderers, Yip, there’s been quite a lot of mosquitoes these last few weeks, especially here in the Kalahari where, when it rains, they appear in their millions. And has it rained here these last six or so weeks and there’s more acoming, or so they […]
by Hannes Wessels With WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus in full flight attacking the ‘rich nations’ for ‘hoarding’ the Corona vaccine for selfish reasons I’m left suspecting this is an opening salvo aimed at the incoming Biden administration to browbeat them into bringing America back into the fold. It seems to have worked because President […]
SOS Steve on Sunday 17 January 2021 Greetings fellow lovers of non-alcoholic beverages, It has been a week of much travelling for myself, physically, mentally and emotionally. Last Monday I travelled down to Pietermaritzburg to visit my ailing mother and saw some amazing sights to do with the rain that continues to fall in the […]
SOS Steve on Sunday 8 November 2020 Greetings my fellow happy citizens, Health and weather first, the domain of the elderly. Me fine, thank you for asking. It has been a wet ten days or so here on the fringes of the Kalahari with close on 100 millimetres falling, and amazingly, we all survived although […]
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 […]
Sunday 6 September 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday Good Day my fellow students, The enforced and involuntary Lockdown has been on the go for some 160 days (roughly), and I thought it perhaps good (or bad) for all of us if we scroll back this short while in time and see what we, and […]
by Hannes Wessels Few who served in the Rhodesian military will be remembered with as much reverence and deep affection as Jock Hutton who died aged 96 at Maidstone in Kent on 12th August. With him when he passed away was Colonel Jerry Strong (BCR) who was the 2IC of the Selous Scouts under Ron […]
Sunday 9 August 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday THE WEEK THAT WAS 3 – 9 August 2020 Greetings my fellow sufferers, What a wonderful week! I believe it was because I managed to escape from Big Brother for a couple of days. Or is it Big Sister, you know, that elderly lady who says […]
Sunday 19 July 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday THE WEEK THAT WAS 20 July to 26 July 2020 My fellow South Africans (and Makwerekwere) These weeks and months and years do gallop by rather rapidly do they not? I merely turned on the kettle to force down another cup of tea when suddenly it […]