There’s lot of concern that Jacob Zuma is going to gap it to Russia but if its true, then its another bad idea from a man notorious for terrible ideas. To be a guest of Putin – Edward Snowden refers – you have to be interesting, or fun. Zuma is neither. He’s a teetotaling old […]
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SOS Steve on Sunday 31 January 2021 Greetings fellow worriers and warriors Has been another wet week but we’re not complaining here on the fringes of the Kalahari. Several roads are closed to traffic thanks to the overabundance of raindrops, especially in the Danielskuil and Kuruman region, all very reminiscent of the 1988 floods in […]
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by Hannes Wessels I suppose it has a lot to do with having lived in Africa all my life that I am so fearful of ‘big government’. This is where the State has a monopoly on knowing what is best for the individual and a massive bureaucracy and security apparatus rolls out emboldened with enormous […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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by Simon Reader Once a decade, the New York Times attempts to argue against the widely accepted conviction that its only purpose is to be stuffed in a rescue hatch marked “EMERGENCY BOG ROLL – USE AS LAST RESORT AND ALWAYS WITH PREP CREAM APPLIED GENEROUSLY” in a bunker 50m below earth’s surface in an […]
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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 […]
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by Hannes Wessels Maybe it’s just me, with my dystopian view of this fast-changing world which I fear, (and sincerely hope I’m wrong), is careening in the wrong direction, but I’m finding the company of others, increasingly pointless. While I still have the occasional pleasure of being with dear friends of old, more and more, […]
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Letter from America 2021 went 6 days without incident before things got lively. Nancy Pelosi, insulated from summer’s riots by way of her husband’s $150m fortune, came face to face with winter’s version, downed 2 bottles of vodka under her desk (Tito’s) then tried to initiate a coup. The river barge casino captain in Donald […]
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SOS Steve on Sunday 10 January 2021 Greetings fellow sea and water watchers, I wonder what all you coastal types do when you are not allowed on the beach, but then again I suppose that other than the surfers no seaside resort resident actually goes to the beach. So I could answer my own question […]
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