The Congo, The Colonials, And The Lies.
Hannes Wessels, I must confess I have been unable to stop chuckling about the furore caused by recent pronouncements made by UK billionaire businessman Sir Jim Ratcliffe. There was instant…
The Seven Year Itch: Parliament, Power and the Road to 2030
By Andrew Field Zimbabwe is once again in the midst of constitutional surgery. Cabinet has approved a package of amendments that would alter the way executive power is acquired and…
Epstein Affair: From Predator to Political Myth
By Andrew Field The Jeffrey Epstein affair has really become a theatre of excess, marked by speculation, seldom certainty, but much moral posturing in excess measure. It is no longer…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, There have been severe weather events for weeks in the northern provinces and particularly in Limpopo. It was so bad that the Kruger National Park was…
Uganda: Ritual Democracy and the Shadow of Succession
Andrew Field Uganda has voted again. The outcome is as predictable as gravity. Officially, a renewed mandate. Unofficially, a ritual long stripped of competition. The figures are tidy, the margins…
Perfidious Albion and the Modern Deep State
By Will Keys My book Perfidious Albion was not written as history for its own sake. It was written to explain the present. Based on the past, but pertinent to…
The Price of Silence in Angola
Andrew Field, Angola is the quiet giant of the Southern African Development Community (SADC); present but rarely centred, mighty yet oddly muted. Vast in territory, rich in oil, and anchored…
Power Without Prosperity: Southern Africa’s Year of Stagnation
Andrew Field, Southern Africa in 2025 was a region still caught in its own contradictions. Governments spent the year juggling conflict, corruption dressed as governance, and the maintenance of power,…
Over His Skis: When Expertise Becomes Conceit
By Will Keys The Dunning–Kruger effect is not stupidity; it is unrecognised overreach. It afflicts the competent who stray beyond their true mastery and mistake confidence for comprehension. Classical history…
What a Deep State Really Is — And Why the West Must Finally Face It
By Will Keys The phrase “Deep State” is tossed about so casually these days that the public either dismisses it as nonsense or fears it as something mystical. In truth,…