A Boer War Snapshot
by Martin Redfern Reasons for the Boer War are often over simplified. A voracious and rapacious colonial administration seeking to wrest control of the gold and diamond deposits in the…
A Rude Awakening
by Hannes Wessels For Guy Brooke Sumner it was just another day at the office but not a very gratifying one. Canoeing the upper reaches of the Zambezi above the…
‘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 the state-orchestrated land seizures beginning in 2000 may never be fully…
Gary Ballance; True Brit.
by Hannes Wessels Hugh Ballance and his lethal ‘Rat-Trap’. Gary Ballance When Gary Ballance was picked to play for England there were rumblings about yet another ‘foreigner’ and questions were…
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 as it wends its way to the sea through the…
The Hidden Thread.
by Hannes Wessels For someone who well remembers the era of the ‘Red Menace’ and the ‘Total Onslaught’, reading ‘The Hidden Thread’ by Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson was revealing…
Africa’s Forgotten Statesman
by Hannes Wessels – On a continent more famous for despots and demagogues, where real statesmanship became a domain solely occupied by Nelson Mandela, we should not forget the late…
‘Dog’ Varley
by Hannes Wessels – When the men who settled Rhodesia decided they needed a place of learning for their sons they positioned it in the harsh, dry country bordering on…
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 productivity and security were the drivers. There was mutual attraction,…
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 about colonialism which is subtly lumped together with slavery to…