Rhodesia: Vanished State
Duncan Clarke* Countries do not ordinarily just disappear even if they no longer inhabit the minds of cartographers and appear no more on world maps. States may change governments, formal…
Not Without Hope.
Hannes Wessels, I’m in touch with an old friend who departed South Africa soon after the transfer of power to the African National Congress (ANC) under Nelson Mandela and relocated…
The Power of Sport.
Hannes Wessels, A few weeks ago, a friend and former soldier of distinction presently writing a book relating to the Rhodesian civil war asked me for my thoughts on why…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Surprise! I’m still here and not in Australia. My trip has been postponed for medical reasons and I’m hoping to be able to leave in a…
The Shining Example
Andrew Field, Tanzania, development and the price nobody paid For half a century Tanzania was the country you pointed at when the argument turned ugly. Nyerere’s inheritance, the island of…
Transgenderism: The Gender Myth and the Cowardice of Experts
Andrew Field Enoch Burke spent almost 700 days in an Irish prison. He was released for the fifth time on 1 July 2026. The Irish state insists that he was…
Ivermectin – the stuff of legends …
Doctor John Pridgeon, A story that rivals, and in my opinion betters the historical narrative of penicillin, is the discovery, and ongoing subsequent history of the amazing and very controversial…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Cyril Ramaphosa has lodged a complaint about the person chosen to lead evidence in the investigation into the goings-on at Phala Phala. Phala Phala is Cyril’s…
The Words That Silence a Thousand Truths: Cowardice by Label, How Fear Replaced Law
By Andrew Field Europe has become frightened of words. Not obscenity, incitement or threats, which the law knows how to deal with, but labels: racist, islamophobe, far right. They have…
The Expulsion Nobody Will Name
By Andrew Field Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, stood before the cameras in Pretoria and told the continent that South Africa cannot be a remedy…