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 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…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, So, after thinking about it and hinting at it and carefully considering his options, Ramaphosa actually made some cabinet changes on Thursday night. It took almost…
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…
Celebrating The Shackles
Hannes Wessels In an odd way, looking back, I think I was fortunate to have grown up in Rhodesia. Thanks to that experience I was introduced early to what is…
South Africa On the Edge; the Root of the Problem.
Hannes Wessels A fortnight ago, Helen Zille, former Democratic Alliance Leader and Western Cape Premier, published an article that was an intriguing, some might say patronising, defence of disgraced former…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Jacob Zuma is in jail. But you cannot even begin to believe how tense
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…
Good Racism and Bad Racism
Hannes Wessels Just as we are told there is ‘good cholesterol’ and there is ‘bad cholesterol’, recent events in sport seem to show there is also ‘good racism’ and ‘bad…
In Africa Black Lives DON’T matter
Hannes Wessels We are probably few in number but for those of us Africans, of all races, who have long been hoping something would change for the better, the future…