The World That Was
Adrian Olivier This is the start of a new series covering the previous week’s most important news and events from across the world. The aim is to publish this every…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Last Thursday evening Andre de Ruyter was interviewed on one of our popular TV news channels. While he was being interviewed, he was still the CEO…
Win in Washington
REVIEW: WIN IN WASHINGTON 1965-1978 Win Hooper was an artist-a very good artist. but to narrowly confine her art to the products of paint brushes is to do her an…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Eskom is a disaster. For the first time ever more than half of its generating capacity was out of service this week. Load shedding has been…
The Pity of War.
Hannes Wessels, Pursuing my interest in Rhodesian/Zimbabwean history it has been enlightening spending time with a former senior officer in the Zimbabwe Peoples Liberation Army (ZPRA). Comparing notes, we have…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, SONA, the State of the Nation address by Cyril last Thursday night pushed Tottenham Hotspur and the proposed tourism deal right off the front pages of…
BALTOPS 22 a Disaster
Will Keys I have just finished writing a book. It is with the publisher and called ‘Perfidy, meaning untrustworthy or deceptive. In chapter one, I start with an evolutionary analysis…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Tottenham Hotspur. Very often, OK nearly always, I end these newsletters mentioning the Spurs’ results but never have I started with a Spurs story. The English…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, I really would have liked this week’s review to have been bright and breezy with all sorts of positivity begining to show while we enjoy this…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Again this week’s news is still mostly about our electricity supply……or more accurately, lack thereof. We are all hoping that with winter coming soon things will…