White Africans Are Not Allowed To Save Black Africans
by Hannes Wessels I fear not enough people are likely to read Colonel Eeben Barlow’s book ‘Executive Outcomes: Against All Odds’, which offers a detailed account of his eventful life…
Africa Destroyed; Poster-Child for Liberalism
by Hannes Wessels The continental catastrophe that has engulfed Africa may go down in history as the greatest, politically motivated, human calamity of all time. Hundreds of millions of poverty-stricken…
The Sam Curran Story
by Hannes Wessels Desperate to seek relief from deep despondency over the recent Zimbabwe elections, I reached out to cricket and my prayers were answered. I thrilled to the sight…
The Sam Curran Story
by Hannes Wessels Desperate to seek relief from deep despondency over the recent Zimbabwe elections, I reached out to cricket and my prayers were answered. I thrilled to the sight…
Southern Africa On The Skids
by Hannes Wessels The sight of blood-soaked bodies including a middle-aged mother lying face down in a pool of blood on the streets of Harare having been shot in the…
Open Stories From Carnoustie
by Hannes Wessels With The Open Championship to be held at Carnoustie looming large on the golfing calendar it’s of interest to reflect on some of the memorable events that…
Ashwin Willemse; Who Was Victimised?
by Hannes Wessels So a month after the celebrated tantrum when Ashwin Willemse stormed off a live Super Sport broadcast, a report is finally out. Immediately after the incident, which…
Clem Coetzee; Master of the Game.
Hannes Wessels I wrote this article many years ago when Clem was still alive and almost by accident picked it up on Facebook. I find it hard to believe it…
Lords of the Lies; David Owen and Peter Carrington.
by Hannes Wessels It’s nearly forty years since Rhodesia disappeared into history and the country became Zimbabwe. What followed was thirty-seven years of bloodshed, economic mayhem and catastrophic corruption. This…
Slavery; The Inconvenient Truth
by Hannes Wessels As a father of two impressionable teenage girls I am having a tough and at times frustrating time trying to undo the damage done at school in…