Where To Run To?
Hannes Wessels We who live here in southern Africa are unsurprised by misrule; I have lived under the cosh of dishonest and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats for most of my…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, The weekend news was dominated by the political parties delivering their election manifestos ahead of the Municipal Elections in five weeks time and…… some very depressing…
The Real End of The World
Simon Lincoln Reader The Labour Party conference in Brighton is much, much worse than some dystopian Planet-Erf fun OVER THE WEEKEND there was a brilliant party in the Mojave desert,…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, On Friday the Constitutional Court handed down a judgement in the matter where Jacob Zuma had appealed his being sentenced for contempt of court and for…
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 Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, The main story in all the papers this weekend was about Cyril giving the green light for Zuma to be given his free ‘Get out of…
The Dreaded ‘Coof’.
Simon Lincoln Reader If you wanted to take the temperature of western civilisation, nearly two years into the dreaded ‘coof’, just to check whether we’re all wankered up enough yet,…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Not for the first time has Jacob Zuma virtually dominated our news this week. Quite unexpectedly he was granted medical parole on a Sunday afternoon, nogal,…
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
Hello again, The front page story in the Sunday Times this week reads like a crime mystery thriller. Except it isn’t fiction. Six men have been arrested for the salying…