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…
Doomed by the Virtue Signallers
Hannes Wessels, For a long time I have been trying to understand the psychosis gripping the western world; the driving…
An Avoidable War
by Hannes Wessels A regrettable tragedy is unfolding in Ukraine. This may well be the biggest war in Europe since…
Is Putin the Problem?
Hannes Wessels I honestly do not know if Vladimir Putin is a good guy or a bad guy. From most…