The Wind of Destruction
by Hannes Wessels A year after I was born, in 1957, The Gold Coast became Ghana and the first country in Africa to acquire independence from Great Britain. Three years…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
Sunday 19 July 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday THE WEEK THAT WAS 20 July to 26 July 2020 My fellow South Africans (and Makwerekwere) These weeks and months and…
Russell Phillips; Brave Soldier With A Big Heart.
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…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
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…
Colonel Dyck And The Fight For Northern Mozambique
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…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
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…
Sport and Politics
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…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
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,…
Something Rotten ‘Down Under’.
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…