Hunting the Hunter
Hannes Wessels It appears there is an urgent international manhunt under way to find the professional hunter responsible for the death of ‘Mopane’. The lion was killed last month near…
Afghanistan: the original ‘build back better’
Simon Reader The Taliban are now in control of more of Afghanistan than they were two decades ago. Congratulations to Mark Milley and the rest of his woke generals. Helluva…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, So, after thinking about it and hinting at it and carefully considering his options, Ramaphosa actually made some cabinet changes on Thursday night. It took almost…
Demise of a Liberal Icon.
Simon Reader Occasionally one incident comes close to explaining everything that is corrupt about a way of thinking. The incident in question is the resignation of the Democratic Governor of…
Celebrating The Shackles
Hannes Wessels In an odd way, looking back, I think I was fortunate to have grown up in Rhodesia. Thanks to that experience I was introduced early to what is…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Pieter Mulder writing in Die Burger over the weekend (and before the NEC meeting) quotes “the President is in office but not in power”. The chaos…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, On Friday the ANC security-cluster MP’s called the three Ministers, those of State Security, Defence and Police— Dlodlo, Mapisa-Nqakula & Cele—to account for their unpreparedness of…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again Can you believe it? The Master of Stalingrad-tactics has done it again! On Monday, at the start of the l-o-n-g delayed corruption, fraud, money laundering and…
South Africa On the Edge; the Root of the Problem.
Hannes Wessels A fortnight ago, Helen Zille, former Democratic Alliance Leader and Western Cape Premier, published an article that was an intriguing, some might say patronising, defence of disgraced former…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Last week SA made international news because Jacob Zuma went to jail. This week SA made international news because of the rioting, flagrant looting and vandalism…