by Hannes Wessels South Africa is presently in the grip of a self-inflicted crisis as Eskom, the state-owned and managed monopoly charged with supplying … Read more →

by Hannes Wessels Recently I watched a video clip of people being interviewed in what was still then Salisbury (now Harare) days after the official … Read more →

by Hannes Wessels My infatuation with Kenya goes back almost 50 years to my early teens when I first read Robert Ruark’s African classics; Something … Read more →

  by Hannes Wessels This last week saw the broken people of Zimbabwe being being gunned down and beaten into merciless submission by goons deployed … Read more →

by Hannes Wessels   Looking at what has recently taken place in France, the UK, Europe and elsewhere, I was reminded that we are not … Read more →

by Hannes Wessels On 11 December the South African Constitutional Court delivered a scathing judgement against former president Jacob Zuma’s decision in 2014 to support … Read more →

by Hannes Wessels South African billionaire Johann Rupert is in terrible trouble with his countrymen over comments recently made in a television interview. Eschewing political … Read more →

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 →

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 →

  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 →