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What Rule Of Law?
by Hannes Wessels In the heady early days of independence in Zimbabwe, when Robert Mugabe was the world’s most loved freedom fighter and euphoria … Read more →
Southern Africa Sinking
by Hannes Wessels Last week cyclone Idai hit central Mozambique and caused the worst natural disaster to hit the sub-continent in living memory. Beira, the … Read more →
Helen Zille: Unsung Heroine
by Hannes Wessels With the sun setting on her stellar political career, there may be no contemporary politician who has done more good for more … Read more →
Louis Botha: A Man Apart
by Hannes Wessels Reading Richard Steyn’s excellent account (Louis Botha: A Man Apart) of the life and times of General Louis Botha was enlightening, enjoyable … Read more →
The Lying Press
by Hannes Wessels The news that Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann has filed a $250 million lawsuit against Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post must … Read more →
No Whites; No Lights
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 →
Liberals and the end of Laughter
by Hannes Wessels Last week I took some friends to watch Pieter Dirk Uys, (aka Evita Bezhuidenhout) perform at his wonderful local theatre, ‘The Peron’. … Read more →
Democracy and Destruction
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 →
Why Can’t We Be Like The Kenyans?
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 →
The Brits; Prime Partners On Zimbabwe’s Road To Ruin.
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 →