Quinton Capitulates
Hannes Wessels When Quinton De Kock stood fast and refused to obey the order from CSA (Cricket South Africa) to get down on his knees and pay due homage to…
License to Kill
Hannes Wessels Having lived all my life in Africa I feel I am well placed to write about institutionalized racism and selective application of the law, simply because I have…
Where To Run To?
Hannes Wessels We who live here in southern Africa are unsurprised by misrule; I have lived under the cosh of dishonest and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats for most of my…
No History, No Future
Hannes Wessels To my mind ignorance of history might be the route leading us to self-destruction. Roughly 50 years ago, I recall my headmaster at Umtali Boys High, Mr. ‘Koney’…
The End of a Superpower
Hannes Wessels I am no fan of Joe Biden’s. Throughout his political career he has used his influence to make life as difficult as possible for Europeans in Africa. As…
Hunting the Hunter
Hannes Wessels It appears there is an urgent international manhunt under way to find the professional hunter responsible for the death of ‘Mopane’. The lion was killed last month near…
Celebrating The Shackles
Hannes Wessels In an odd way, looking back, I think I was fortunate to have grown up in Rhodesia. Thanks to that experience I was introduced early to what is…
South Africa On the Edge; the Root of the Problem.
Hannes Wessels A fortnight ago, Helen Zille, former Democratic Alliance Leader and Western Cape Premier, published an article that was an intriguing, some might say patronising, defence of disgraced former…
The Fall of General Smuts
Hannes Wessels So consistently troubling is the news that reaches us daily, both home and abroad, I have reached the sorry stage where I am too scared to look. I…
Good Racism and Bad Racism
Hannes Wessels Just as we are told there is ‘good cholesterol’ and there is ‘bad cholesterol’, recent events in sport seem to show there is also ‘good racism’ and ‘bad…