Africa is Burning
Hannes Wessels, Only through listening, reading and learning from experience over many years have I become an unrepentant sceptic when it comes to the received wisdom of the time; the…
“The Minister for Los Angeles County Schools will address His Majesty King Charles III shortly”
Simon Lincoln Reader, We’ve heard the c-word a lot this week, much of it deliberate mispronunciation of Jeremy Hunt’s surname. But after today, not a single member of C…erm, Hunt’s…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, When the DA discovered that Cyril had secretly amended the ministerial handbook to give his bloated cabinet even more perks—free electricity and water, as much as…
What will Jordan Peterson say to South Africa’s opposition leaders?
Meeting the great psychologist of our age and persuading him to come south… Simon Lincoln Reader, The world’s most famous Canadian Dr. Jordan Peterson has been in London for nearly…
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…
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…