No Whites; No Lights
by Hannes Wessels South Africa is presently in the grip of a self-inflicted crisis as Eskom, the state-owned and managed monopoly charged with supplying the country’s electricity, appears to be…
Liberals and the end of Laughter
by Hannes Wessels Last week I took some friends to watch Pieter Dirk Uys, (aka Evita Bezhuidenhout) perform at his wonderful local theatre, ‘The Peron’. Although I suspect we would…
Democracy and Destruction
by Hannes Wessels Recently I watched a video clip of people being interviewed in what was still then Salisbury (now Harare) days after the official announcement made by then Governor…
Global Warming; Trump And The Usual Suspects To Blame
by Hannes Wessels “World must triple efforts or face catastrophic climate change,” screamed the Guardian earlier this week, while warning that if emissions are allowed to continue rising, the world…
Open letter: Battle For The Soul of Zimbabwe
by Larry Norton As we sit in the sullen twilight of another bitterly contested election, the battle for the soul of our country continues. I am not a politician, I…
Benighted Continent on the Brink
by Hannes Wessels Malcolm Horne, a London barrister has written in very blunt terms regarding the planned land-grab in South Africa: “You cannot have land expropriation without compensation. It is…
REVIEW: ‘WE DARED TO WIN’
By Colonel Eeben Barlow Due for release: April 2018 Hannes Wessels’ latest book ‘We Dared to Win’ is a book no serious student of war in Africa should be without.…
“Black Panther”; where fantasy-fiction becomes fact.
by Hannes Wessels All of us who follow the news are getting used to being lied to but this dishonesty normally relates to the distortion of facts, the twisting of…
The Oxfam Scam
by Hannes Wessels Recent revelations exposing Oxfam as a well organised haven for sexual predators should not come as a surprise to anyone who has paid any attention to these…
Rhodesia in 1976. A fascinating view from a famous economist.
by Milton Friedman Of the 49 countries in Africa, fifteen are under direct military rule and 29 have one-party civilian governments. Only five have multiparty political systems. I have just…