A Boer War Snapshot
by Martin Redfern Reasons for the Boer War are often over simplified. A voracious and rapacious colonial administration seeking to…
A Rude Awakening
by Hannes Wessels For Guy Brooke Sumner it was just another day at the office but not a very…
‘The King is not a Thief’. Why the British may be liable to compensate the Zimbabwean farmers.
by Hannes Wessels The question of legal responsibility with regard to the Zimbabwean farmers dispossessed in the course of…
Gary Ballance; True Brit.
by Hannes Wessels Hugh Ballance and his lethal ‘Rat-Trap’. Gary Ballance When Gary Ballance was picked to play for…
Rough Ride on the Rufiji River
by Hannes Wessels – In sub-Saharan Africa there are few river-systems as wild and wonderful as that of the Rufiji…
The Hidden Thread.
by Hannes Wessels For someone who well remembers the era of the ‘Red Menace’ and the ‘Total Onslaught’, reading ‘The…
Africa’s Forgotten Statesman
by Hannes Wessels – On a continent more famous for despots and demagogues, where real statesmanship became a domain solely…
‘Dog’ Varley
by Hannes Wessels – When the men who settled Rhodesia decided they needed a place of learning for their sons…
The Parable of Colonialist and Colony.
by August Pointneuf Colonialist was beguiled by this beauty. A compulsion to join forever and create a mutual life of…
White Men can’t Jump but they can Govern.
By Hannes Wessels I write as a concerned father whose daughter, like millions of other children, has recently been taught…