The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Lots of news this week was centered around the election of a chairperson for the Phala Phala impeachment committee. The DA made it quite clear they…
Thoughts On Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
By Will Keys, Humanity’s understanding of what constitutes “life” has always been narrowly framed by our earthly experience. We tend to define it through the lens of familiar biology: organisms…
We Stopped Believing We Were Worth Defending
By Andrew Field Last year ‘radical’ Islam, the religion of peace, killed more people in the dry middle of Africa than anywhere else on Earth. The Global Terrorism Index published…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Dennis, that character of note is no more. He passed-on on Friday morning and he will be missed, sadly missed by very, very many. He was…
The Core Conflict: Why the West and Iran Cannot Easily Reconcile
by Will Keys The real tension between the United States and Iran runs deeper than nuclear weapons, proxies, or oil. It stems from a fundamental clash between two opposing worldviews:…
The Rule of Law
Hannes Wessels, Growing up in Rhodesia I remember a police force, the British South Africa Police (BSAP), that was highly respected by the majority of people, and magistrates and judges…
Messaging by Machete: The Death Cult Feeding on Cabo Delgado
By Andrew Field Mozambique is beginning to resemble a managed emergency rather than a counter-insurgency. The distinction matters because counter-insurgencies are supposed to end. Managed emergencies become permanent systems. They…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again The news of the day, of the week, of the year is the ruling by the Constitutional Court, last Friday, that the Parliamentary clearing of President…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Our municipal elections are scheduled for the 4th of November. These are the first local government elections where uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) will be contesting. The…
Lament for a Hero.
Hannes Wessels, I have known John ‘Jungle’ Jordan from school-days. He was senior to me so we were not close but I remember him so well from those times. Powerfully…