SOS Steve on Sunday 15 November 2020 Greetings my fellow colourful peoples, I do hope that you are all well and enjoying the freedom that allows you to buy alcohol on a Saturday once again. Let me not write about opening the borders to all countries just as ‘all’ these countries go into lockdown and […]
SOS Steve on Sunday 8 November 2020 Greetings my fellow happy citizens, Health and weather first, the domain of the elderly. Me fine, thank you for asking. It has been a wet ten days or so here on the fringes of the Kalahari with close on 100 millimetres falling, and amazingly, we all survived although […]
Sos Sunday 18 October Steve on Sunday My fellow strikers, rioters and stay at homers It was to be hoped that those EFF(ing) fellows dressed in red, and not to be confused with the Christmas Father, had got lost and ended up in Senegal rather than at Senekal this Friday past. It was not to […]
by Hannes Wessels Following the miserable travails of Dr. Russell Pridgeon and Mr. Patrick O’Dea has been a disturbing and painful exercise and sadly, it appears there is no end in sight. My hopes, since I last wrote about this case, that those wielding the full force of the law of the land, who seek […]
SOS Sunday 11 October 2020 Steve on Sunday Greetings fellow bundles of joy. It has been quite a year has it not? Only 74 days until Christmas! And a gentle reminder to my family that it is only 49 days to the biggest day of the year – my birthday!! Advance advertising helps…!! I must […]
SOS Sunday 4 October 2020 Steve on Sunday Greetings patriots and makwerekwere, Summer is here! That’s enough about the weather for this week. Let’s chat about a comment and a query I made last Sunday. How I could forget that it was the Umtali educated Lindy (nee Kloppers) who married the winning 2012 World Cup […]
by Hannes Wessels Growing up on the Zambezi near the Victoria Falls, in the early 50’s Norman Monks developed a passion for wildlife and wild places at an early age. Determined to join the Rhodesian Department of National Parks on leaving school, his hopes were dashed when he was turned down. Turning to a possible […]
SOS Sunday 27 September 2020 Steve on Sunday Good day all you happy and smiling faces, Spring is here! Or rather it was until winter returned to the platteland (hinterland) with a vengeance. Here I was, minding my own business and getting ready yesterday morning for my Saturday morning book selling stint at the market, […]
SOS Sunday 20 September 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday Good Day to all those who love holidays, although life this last few months appears to be one big holiday, especially for those who work for government and have been paid their monthly salaries with nary a blink of the eyes and zero conscience. Unlike […]
With controversy continuing around the planned removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College I thought it pertinent and enlightening to publish the recent submission to the Independent Commission by Dr. Duncan Clarke, author of ‘Rhodes’ Ghost‘. Testimony: For Independent Commission of Inquiry Rhodes’ Statue: Oriel College, Oxford University Dr Duncan […]