The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Eskom’s new board, sabotage at certain plants and the bugging of Andre de Ruyter’s vehicle (with a powerful device not available on the open market) have…
Steve on Sunday Sometimes (SOSS)
Sunday 2 October 2022 Steve Lunderstedt, Greetings my fellow health and heritage fanatics, Before getting to the good news, some bad news. The magnificent Digger’s Memorial in the Oppenheimer Gardens,…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Ramaphosa rushed back from London after the Queen’s funeral to attend to the electricity crisis. The ‘dramatic’ news he shared with us in his newsletter on…
What will Jordan Peterson say to South Africa’s opposition leaders?
Meeting the great psychologist of our age and persuading him to come south… Simon Lincoln Reader, The world’s most famous Canadian Dr. Jordan Peterson has been in London for nearly…
SOSS – Sunday 25 September 2022
Steve Lunderstedt, Steve on Sunday Sometimes WHAT HAS BEEN DESTROYED CANNOT BE UNDONE Yesterday is history, today it is heritage. Each and every building, museum, monument, memorial, cemetery, or street…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, I have returned home to darkness. Our electricity has been going off for about 10 hours a day and nothing is more convincing for us (and…
SOSS – Steve on Sunday (Sometimes)
Steve Lunderstedt, Sunday 18 September 2022 Greetings my fellow students of water, electricity and pandemics, and to my six keen followers…I’m back for a few commentaries both historical and topical.…
The Elizabethan Legacy.
Hannes Wessels, Like most people I did not know the Queen, but I did know her husband inasmuch as I spent an afternoon with Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace almost…
What a Shower.
The arrival of a new Prime Minister tomorrow could not be more boring or irrelevant. Simon Lincoln Reader Tomorrow one of the two monkeys jockeying for leadership of the Conservative…
A cautionary tale to barely-sentient doughnuts across the world…
Simon Lincoln Reader, For years, CNN allowed Brian Stelter to espouse skewed propaganda cloaked as a “defence of democracy”. If CNN accounted (note: past tense) for – at least –…