NOW HERE’S A THING
Nigel Henson “There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence beside a crooked stile” Dear Readers Belated best wishes for the year ahead-…
The Week That Was
Hello again, Most of our news this week, as you would expect, has been all about the budget being cancelled at the 11th hour. In fact it was cancelled as…
Trump and Africa
Hannes Wessels, I’m certainly not looking for any sympathy, (cowboys don’t cry we were taught), but being of European descent, coming from a family that left Europe over 300 years…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, On Saturday the ANC celebrated its 113th anniversary in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. All their big-shots were down here in the Cape and were out canvassing. The…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, The ANC must be strongly criticised for supporting the rogue countries of this world. Iran, Russia, China, Cuba and Syria are amongst the regimes which treat…
‘An Expert on Africa’
Duncan Clarke When asked to join the Spiegel Tent ‘Discourse on Africa’ in August 2012 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, to speak about my book, Africa’s Future: Darkness to…
African-American Delusions
Will Keys I am an ex-Rhodesian, now an Australian, retired, living contentedly in Queensland. I have reasonable health; happily married; proud of my children, and financially secure. My curiosity with…
Britain To The Fore!
Hannes Wessels, Recently, more information has come into the public domain about the British plans to intervene militarily in order to bring the ‘Rebel Rhodesian’ government to heel in the…
The Race Against Racism
Hannes Wessels, While I was not living in South Africa when the ANC, led by Nelson Mandela, came to power in 1994 it was plain to see that almost the…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 10 September – Sunday 17 September: On Sunday, an Israeli delegation made history when it arrived in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh. As there are no direct flights…