SOSS – Steve on Sunday (Sometimes)
Steve Lunderstedt, Sunday 18 September 2022 Greetings my fellow students of water, electricity and pandemics, and to my six keen followers…I’m back for a few commentaries both historical and topical.…
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…
What a Shower.
The arrival of a new Prime Minister tomorrow could not be more boring or irrelevant. Simon Lincoln Reader Tomorrow one of the two monkeys jockeying for leadership of the Conservative…
A cautionary tale to barely-sentient doughnuts across the world…
Simon Lincoln Reader, For years, CNN allowed Brian Stelter to espouse skewed propaganda cloaked as a “defence of democracy”. If CNN accounted (note: past tense) for – at least –…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, It is truly sad for me to begin this newsletter by trying to explain how incompetent our bureaucrats—all appointed by the ANC are. The first story…
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…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to be challenged in Parliament as to his conduct after the money from his farm, Phala Phala was stolen. The two-member ATM…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Could it be that Cyril’s reign is coming to an end as head of the ANC and as President of this country? His actions confirm what…
RIP Dr Zev – A belated obituary for an extraordinary Human Rights Activist
The Medic, When the sun went down on June 30th 2022, this planet had become a little poorer. You see, an unlikely hero (and probably unwilling even to be recognised…
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…