The Week That Was
by The Editors The thing with democracy is the people elected tell you something about the electorate. Very easy to hurl abuse at the politicians but who put them there?…
The Week That Was
by the Editors In any normal election Hillary Clinton might have withdrawn her candidacy but this is not a normal election and for the powerful who make up ‘The Establishment’…
The Week That Was
by the Editors Mild euphoria swept some of South Africa following news of electoral losses suffered by the ruling ANC in the local government elections. Even if this does not…
The Week That Was
by the Editors Surely there is hope for South Africa. The dreaded Economic Freedom Front (EFF) led by Julius Malema hit the hustings promising a land of milk and honey…
Black Lives Matter Perspective
The main stream media should be criminally charged for not telling the public the truth, omitting biased opinions and helping destroy and divide our country. Hello. Don’t recognize me? That’s…
The Week that Was
The Editors In the ‘Dark Continent’ we have become used to the selective application of the law. A system that was designed to regulate and moderate behaviour of the citizenry…
The Week That Was
The Editors The immediate UK media reaction to the stabbing to death of an American women and the wounding of five others in London was to emphatically tell the word…
Trump getting Thumped
by Hannes Wessels Below is an article I wrote four years ago when the press initially hammered the Trumps after an African hunting safari. This has now erupted again as…
The Week That Was
Watching Europe seized by a ruthless reign of terror life in southern Africa looks a little less unattractive. For many of us here terrorism is nothing new, we have been…
‘Cecil’ the lion; a year later
by Hannes Wessels It’s just over a year ago that ‘Cecil’ was killed and the world erupted in anger. Four months ago Claudio Chiarelli and his son Max were killed…