The Pity of War.
Hannes Wessels, Pursuing my interest in Rhodesian/Zimbabwean history it has been enlightening spending time with a former senior officer in the Zimbabwe Peoples Liberation Army (ZPRA). Comparing notes, we have…
A Lawless World
Hannes Wessels, At a time of year when many of us like to rejoice in the company of close friends and family while celebrating the good things in life my…
Good Deeds Condemned
Hannes Wessels, It was with great sadness that I read a recent article reminding readers of some of the extraordinary feats of nation-building that took place in the country that…
Africa is Burning
Hannes Wessels, Only through listening, reading and learning from experience over many years have I become an unrepentant sceptic when it comes to the received wisdom of the time; the…
The Elizabethan Legacy.
Hannes Wessels, Like most people I did not know the Queen, but I did know her husband inasmuch as I spent an afternoon with Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace almost…
A Watershed Moment.
Hannes Wessels, For a democracy to survive there needs to be a general consensus among the citizenry about the need for important fundamentals to be sacrosanct. One of those fundamentals…
Utterly Confusing
Hannes Wessels, Listening, and watching, Bheki Cele, the South African Police Minister, go apoplectic with rage upon being quite sensibly challenged by Ian Cameron, a white community activist, looking for…
Embittered Whites
Hannes Wessels, In an article by RW Johnson in ‘Politicsweb,’ titled ‘Amidst the ruins of ANC rule,’ the author paints a grim picture of the man-made disaster that has befallen…
Colonialism Revisited
Hannes Wessels, Recently I interviewed my old friend Julian Pellatt. We were students together at University of Cape Town and he came away from that once august institution having learned…
The Last Rhodesians
Hannes Wessels, Reading this seminal work on the history of these unusual people and the country they helped construct, has been both enlightening and distressing. ‘Last of the Rhodesians; Society…