SOS Steve on Sunday 27 December 2020 Greetings my fellow prisoners, We are just that, are we not? Captives of the plague but more honestly perhaps, we are captives of the rules, regulations and personal dislikes of politicians. Has panic hit our land? Maybe after the RSA President speaks tonight there may well be. There […]
Letter from Los Angeles We were told it was a necessary reflex. Exploited at once by corporate media then by multinationals, the riots sparked by George Floyd’s killing were endlessly substantiated with no dissent permitted and any critical analysis shut down. Black Lives Matter did not start in May, but it was here […]
by Hannes Wessels Back in March when I first wrote about the onset of the plague, I was hoping that the madness would soon pass when people realised this was not a looming apocalypse and it would not be long before our lives returned to normal. Unfortunately I was dead wrong; eight months later […]
by Hannes Wessels The ANC passed a resolution some months back which stated that members who have criminal cases should step down from their positions to avoid conflict and to protect the integrity of the ruling party. Adding muscle to this new-found sense of moral rectitude, President Ramaphosa went on the record recently talking […]
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SOS Steve on Sunday 6 December 2020 Greetings my fellow Vaalies and other hinterlanders, This first part is mostly for the Vaalies, but those who live on the coast are permitted to read it merely so they can understand what is happening in the next few weeks. If anything is happening. Going to the beach, […]
by Hannes Wessels Recently I received an angry message from an English gentleman who, having read one of my books about the Rhodesian SAS, either ‘A Handful of Hard Men’ which I wrote much about Captain Darrell Watt, or ‘We Dared to Win’ which I wrote with and about Lieutenant Andre Scheepers. He referred to […]
SOS Steve on Sunday 29 November 2020 Greetings my fellow former warriors and their families, There being no official Remembrance Day services in most South African cities and towns this year the emphasis on remembering those who died fell to veteran’s organisations in attempting to keep the memorial flame burning. Some of these services were […]
SOS Steve on Sunday 22 November 2020 Greetings my fellow ancients and not-so ancients, So much to comment on these days with the state of the Republic being what it is. There is the plague of course, and being a specialist on epidemics I think it is worthwhile muttering once again, you know, at least […]
by Hannes Wessels International and regional paralyses seems to be the only reaction to the fast escalating crisis rapidly spreading in all directions from the Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique. In a gruesome show of force, some 50 people, including women and children, were recently beheaded for all to see in the predominantly Christian […]