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…
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 which currently stands on Cathedral Square in Glasgow. This is…
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 force behind electing politicians dedicated to destroying their countries, and…
An Avoidable War
by Hannes Wessels A regrettable tragedy is unfolding in Ukraine. This may well be the biggest war in Europe since the end of WWII and the great powers are dangerously…
Is Putin the Problem?
Hannes Wessels I honestly do not know if Vladimir Putin is a good guy or a bad guy. From most of what I read and most of what I hear,…
The Corona Con-men.
Hannes Wessels I have been a Covid sceptic from the outset; not because I know anything about science or medicine, but because I picked up some early signs that gave…