The Big, BIG Picture
Will Keys, In the foreseeable future, significant changes are expected to occur in the relative influences exerted by countries upon one another. In this essay, I will refer to these…
The Silencing of Sense
Hannes Wessels, Years ago when BBC boss of Television, Danny Cohen, fired the brash but funny petrolhead Jeremy Clarkson from his job at Top Gear, I was struck by the…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 4 June – Sunday 11 June: On Sunday OPEC+ members (OPEC and 10 other countries, the most important of which is Russia) agreed to a new output…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, One of the reasons that cholera is spreading in this country is the horrific condition of the water in so many towns. The Auditor General delivered…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 28 May – Sunday 4 June: On Sunday, Belarus’ leader since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko (a former director of a state farm) bizarrely announced “nuclear weapons for everyone”…
Battle of Bakhmut
Adrian Olivier, When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, part of Russia’s war aims were to capture the region known as the Donbas, made up of the two oblasts…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 21 May – Sunday 28 May: The largest battle in Europe since the Second World War came to a close on Sunday with Russian mercenaries of the…
Would you Kill Baby Adolf Hitler?
John H. Durham Special Counsel’s report, released on May 12, 2023, highlights a concerning finding: the FBI Inspection Division Report reveals that investigators consistently disregarded or rationalized evidence contradicting the…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Week after week the biggest talking point in our country is the effect that load shedding has on all of us and the economy. Fikile Mbalula,…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 14 May – Sunday 21 May: On Sunday Turkish voters went to the polls in their 22nd presidential election. With the votes counted, neither candidate had the…