How to be a better person
Will Keys In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Polonius says to Laertes “To thine Own Self Be True”. John Adams argued that this was bad advice. “Thine Own Self” is likely to…
Quinton Capitulates
Hannes Wessels When Quinton De Kock stood fast and refused to obey the order from CSA (Cricket South Africa) to get down on his knees and pay due homage to…
Who Will Save The West?
Will Keys Former President Donald Trump and inventor-extraordinaire, South African born Elon Musk, despite having little in common in so many ways, share some characteristics. They are both driven by…
License to Kill
Hannes Wessels Having lived all my life in Africa I feel I am well placed to write about institutionalized racism and selective application of the law, simply because I have…
No History, No Future
Hannes Wessels To my mind ignorance of history might be the route leading us to self-destruction. Roughly 50 years ago, I recall my headmaster at Umtali Boys High, Mr. ‘Koney’…
The Dreaded ‘Coof’.
Simon Lincoln Reader If you wanted to take the temperature of western civilisation, nearly two years into the dreaded ‘coof’, just to check whether we’re all wankered up enough yet,…
The End of a Superpower
Hannes Wessels I am no fan of Joe Biden’s. Throughout his political career he has used his influence to make life as difficult as possible for Europeans in Africa. As…
Demise of a Liberal Icon.
Simon Reader Occasionally one incident comes close to explaining everything that is corrupt about a way of thinking. The incident in question is the resignation of the Democratic Governor of…
The Fall of General Smuts
Hannes Wessels So consistently troubling is the news that reaches us daily, both home and abroad, I have reached the sorry stage where I am too scared to look. I…
Mozambique Mayhem; Where Wokists Meet Jihadists
HANNES WESSELS I suppose it is the mindset-madness of the ‘woke world’ we find ourselves in that has come into play recently here in southern Africa, but we are presently…