The Boat People; An embarrassing solution.
by Hannes Wessels Humanitarian crises are unfolding at both the top and the bottom end of Africa. ‘Down South’ anti-foreigner violence threatens to tear the country apart as the flow…
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by Hannes Wessels Humanitarian crises are unfolding at both the top and the bottom end of Africa. ‘Down South’ anti-foreigner violence threatens to tear the country apart as the flow…
by Dale Kenmuir So, the poople – sorry, I mean people – have vented again. RHODES THE COLONIALIST MUST GO! By poop and by crook. But what appalling ingrates and…
by Hannes Wessels London mayor Boris Johnson recently wrote a thought provoking piece on the reason for the Zimbabwe land seizures and laid the blame firmly at the feet of…
by Steven Abramowitz Fredrick Courtney Selous was the bugger who owned Rhodesia before Uncle Cecil (who really was a bugger) bought it with some diamonds and when I was a…
by Martin Redfern Twelve years after the Treaty of Vereeniging ended, the Anglo-Boer War in 1902, a second state of war raised its head in South Africa; this time, a…
by Hannes Wessels When his name’s mentioned it has become frightfully fashionable to speak of Cecil Rhodes in derogatory terms. Arch capitalist, imperialist, misogynist and racist; in today’s world it…
by Hannes Wessels Watching the human tragedy unfold in Ferguson comes with an awful sense of déjà vu for me. As a child, in the early 60’s I remember the…
by Hannes Wessels While I am acutely aware of the damage being done to the environment by man I have long questioned why the finger of guilt is resolutely pointed…
By Hannes Wessels Growing up in Rhodesia my father paid close attention to international events and at one o’clock our lunch table went silent as he fine-tuned the short-wave radio…
by Hannes Wessels It’s getting harder and harder to find a news publication to believe in. It was with some dismay that I noted the ‘Economist’ trumpeting the accession to…