The Last Rhodesians
Hannes Wessels, Reading this seminal work on the history of these unusual people and the country they helped construct, has…
The History of the Rhodesian Game Department
by Hannes Wessels For anyone genuinely interested in African wildlife and conservation Mike Bromwitch’s updated second edition of the 80-year…
Jack Malloch; African Aviation Legend
Coming out of a country that produced a surprising surfeit of colourful characters Jack Malloch is surely one of the…
Give A Dam; And Be Damned!
by Hannes Wessels With the world in a state of high dudgeon over BLM (Black Lives Matter), the alleged…
“Foreign Native”.
by Hannes Wessels RW Johnson’s new book, ‘Foreign Native’, is enlightening, entertaining but also disturbing. But, like everything he writes,…
Rhodes’ Ghost
by Hannes Wessels Reading the second part of Duncan Clarke’s voluminous but quite fascinating study of Cecil Rhodes as the…
‘RUDE’. by Katie Hopkins.
by Hannes Wessels The title of this book should not have been ‘Rude,’ but ‘Bloody Rude’, because it is; but…
“Rhodes’ Ghost”
by Hannes Wessels I don’t know how many books have been written about Cecil John Rhodes, but Duncan Clarke’s magisterial,…
Louis Botha: A Man Apart
by Hannes Wessels Reading Richard Steyn’s excellent account (Louis Botha: A Man Apart) of the life and times of General…
White Africans Are Not Allowed To Save Black Africans
by Hannes Wessels I fear not enough people are likely to read Colonel Eeben Barlow’s book ‘Executive Outcomes: Against…