Russell Phillips; Brave Soldier With A Big Heart.
by Hannes Wessels On Wednesday this week, a handful of old soldiers and friends gathered to pay our respects to Russell Phillips who died suddenly last week. Russell was the…
SOS – Steve On Sunday
Sunday 19 July 2020 SOS – Steve on Sunday THE WEEK THAT WAS 13 July to 19 July 2020 Well, that was indeed one lovely week was it not? A…
Sport and Politics
by Hannes Wessels For someone living in South Africa, watching as we march inexorably towards the cliff from which we will be compelled to leap into an economic abyss, there…
Something Rotten ‘Down Under’.
by Hannes Wessels I probably wouldn’t be getting involved in this sorry saga were it not for the fact that Dr John Pridgeon, is one of my closest, oldest and…
SOS – Steve on Sunday
7th June 2020 Originally morse code for three dots (S) three dashes (O) three dots (S) the letters SOS are not an abbreviation for anything despite the phrase ‘Save our…
“Steve on Sunday”;
by Steve Lunderstedt Originally morse code for three dots (S) three dashes (O) three dots (S), the letters SOS are not an abbreviation for anything despite the phrase ‘Save our…
Lamenting The End Of Laughter
by Hannes Wessels ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. This old adage is something I remember from my earliest childhood and in the…
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…
The Burden our Children Bear
by Hannes Wessels We live in a world obsessed with the safety and general welfare of our children. This is laudable. I was fortunate to be born into a loving…
Ross the Lion-Heart
by Hannes Wessels Ross Hildebrand died in Mutare on the 14th September. Another chip falls from the solid old block that buttressed a once great country. This is not an…