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Asia Bibi; Where all the Do-Gooders?
by Hannes Wessels Ten years ago, a married mother of two children who happened to be a Catholic Christian and therefore part of a small … Read more →
Politics and History
Remembrance Day; Let’s Mourn Alone With Pride
Hannes Wessels Mixed emotions of sadness and anger are visited upon me when reading the news that the small group representing Rhodesians killed in … Read more →
Africa Destroyed; Poster-Child for Liberalism
by Hannes Wessels The continental catastrophe that has engulfed Africa may go down in history as the greatest, politically motivated, human calamity of all … Read more →
Southern Africa On The Skids
by Hannes Wessels The sight of blood-soaked bodies including a middle-aged mother lying face down in a pool of blood on the streets of Harare … Read more →
Ashwin Willemse; Who Was Victimised?
by Hannes Wessels So a month after the celebrated tantrum when Ashwin Willemse stormed off a live Super Sport broadcast, a report is finally out. … Read more →
Lords of the Lies; David Owen and Peter Carrington.
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 →
Slavery; The Inconvenient Truth
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 →
“Black Panther”; where fantasy-fiction becomes fact.
by Hannes Wessels All of us who follow the news are getting used to being lied to but this dishonesty normally relates to the distortion … Read more →
The Oxfam Scam
by Hannes Wessels Recent revelations exposing Oxfam as a well organised haven for sexual predators should not come as a surprise to anyone who has … Read more →
Antonio Salazar
In African Politics Crime Sure Pays
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 →