The Week That Was
by the Editors Freshly bombed New Yorkers must have been overjoyed to have London mayor Sadiq Khan arrive in their besieged city to remind them how lucky they are to…
The Dangers of Ignoring Strategic Intelligence
by Eeben Barlow As Africa drags itself ever closer to the abyss, one would think that governments would be paying a lot more attention to strategic intelligence, and the current…
The Week That Was
by the Editors We’ve been banging on a bit about selective application of the law, mainly in reference to the United States where there is now little disagreement about the…
Ross the Lion-Heart
by Hannes Wessels Ross Hildebrand died in Mutare on the 14th September. Another chip falls from the solid old block that buttressed a once great country. This is not an…
The Week That Was
by The Editors The thing with democracy is the people elected tell you something about the electorate. Very easy to hurl abuse at the politicians but who put them there?…
Gentlemen’s Clubs; End of an Era.
by Hannes Wessels As the Anglo-Saxon heterosexual male slides inexorably into some sort of guilt-ridden oblivion so do his institutions and this includes the gentlemen’s clubs that once provided a…
The Week That Was
by the Editors In any normal election Hillary Clinton might have withdrawn her candidacy but this is not a normal election and for the powerful who make up ‘The Establishment’…
The Week That Was
by the Editors Mild euphoria swept some of South Africa following news of electoral losses suffered by the ruling ANC in the local government elections. Even if this does not…
Mischief Afoot in America
by Hannes Wessels Here in South Africa Donald Trump is widely loathed so once again I find myself a little out on a limb when so much as asking why…
How Boris and Britain can help Africa
by Hannes Wessels It’s almost 60 since Ghana became independent from Britain. The world was jubilant as the sun began to set on the age of European imperialism. ‘African Nationalism’,…