A Lawless World
Hannes Wessels, At a time of year when many of us like to rejoice in the company of close friends…
Good Deeds Condemned
Hannes Wessels, It was with great sadness that I read a recent article reminding readers of some of the extraordinary…
Africa is Burning
Hannes Wessels, Only through listening, reading and learning from experience over many years have I become an unrepentant sceptic when…
The Elizabethan Legacy.
Hannes Wessels, Like most people I did not know the Queen, but I did know her husband inasmuch as I…
A Watershed Moment.
Hannes Wessels, For a democracy to survive there needs to be a general consensus among the citizenry about the need…
Utterly Confusing
Hannes Wessels, Listening, and watching, Bheki Cele, the South African Police Minister, go apoplectic with rage upon being quite sensibly…
Embittered Whites
Hannes Wessels, In an article by RW Johnson in ‘Politicsweb,’ titled ‘Amidst the ruins of ANC rule,’ the author paints…
Colonialism Revisited
Hannes Wessels, Recently I interviewed my old friend Julian Pellatt. We were students together at University of Cape Town and…
The Last Rhodesians
Hannes Wessels, Reading this seminal work on the history of these unusual people and the country they helped construct, has…
A Nation On Its Knees.
Hannes Wessels, With a growing sense of despair I read of moves afoot to remove a statue of David Livingstone…