by Hannes Wessels On Wednesday this week, a handful of old soldiers and friends gathered to pay our respects to Russell Phillips who died suddenly last week. Russell was the recipient of the Silver Cross of Rhodesia for gallantry and I had the privilege of saying a few words about this extraordinary which caused me […]
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Sunday 19 July 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday THE WEEK THAT WAS 13 July to 19 July 2020 Well, that was indeed one lovely week was it not? A week filled with both good and bad news. I must of course start with the good news. Pardon? There is no good news? I beg […]
Read more >by Hannes Wessels (WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGERY) With the world convulsed by the hysteria generated by the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement I came away from my recent meeting with Colonel Lionel Dyck mulling the prevailing madness. Something wildly ironic about a white, former Rhodesian, then Zimbabwean Army officer, talking in sombre but selfless terms about […]
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Sunday 12 July 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday THE WEEK THAT WAS 5 July to 12 July 2020 Saturday 4 July: Day 100 it was today – Day 100 of the lockdown that started so, so long ago as a three week shutdown to allow the hospitals and health departments to prepare for the […]
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by Hannes Wessels For someone living in South Africa, watching as we march inexorably towards the cliff from which we will be compelled to leap into an economic abyss, there doesn’t seem to be a lot to cheer about these days; and finding relief in sport, laughter and the good cheer of the pub seems […]
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Sunday 5 July 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday THE WEEK THAT WAS 29 June to 4 July 2020 The great booze chase, no tourists by air to Kimberley, lions, spiders, Jack the Ripper, and what have we learnt since lockdown began. Monday 29 June: I know it is hard to get out of bed […]
Read more >by Hannes Wessels I probably wouldn’t be getting involved in this sorry saga were it not for the fact that Dr John Pridgeon, is one of my closest, oldest and dearest friends who I hold in the highest regard. John’s late brother Geoff, a doctor too, was also a good friend and hugely respected […]
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Sunday 28 June 2020 THE WEEK THAT WAS. 21 -28 June 2020 The week started off well enough with Father’s day, then an illegal march and then, pow, my daily blurb on Wednesday was banned by the FB police…read on Macbeth. Sunday 21 June It was Father’s Day in southern Africa today, the one day […]
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14 -20 June 2020 A much warmer day in Kimberley today than the previous two days, but still quite nippy, but for the birds an ice free bath which I am sure delighted them no end. Me too, just watching them cavort while I contemplated the situation we in South Africa are living through […]
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by Hannes Wessels Reading the second part of Duncan Clarke’s voluminous but quite fascinating study of Cecil Rhodes as the baying mobs of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement compel a cowering College of Governors at Oxford’s Oriel College to remove the man’s statue is a saddening experience; a reminder of the folly that follows stupidity […]
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