Tanzania: The Ballot and the Blood Trail
By Andrew Field Tanzania heads to the polls on 29 October 2025, but the mood is grim. The ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), has nominated President Samia Suluhu Hassan…
Kiddies on the African Killing Fields
By Andrew Field By late 2025, the African continent remains riddled with overlapping wars. Children are being pulled into armed conflict across Africa with a persistence that should shame the…
The Mountains All Around Us
Andrew Field, The mountains that ring Mutare are under systematic assault. Chinese-operated mining activity has encroached on slopes, ridgelines and catchments once considered the beautiful natural heritage of Mutare and…
Stagnation Malawi
By Andrew Field When the votes were counted, Malawi’s electorate chose the stable and well-trodden over the perhaps untested and experimental. This is a hallmark of southern African politics. Arthur…
A Lion Called ‘Blondie.’
Hannes Wessels, It was with dismay I read a recent report in ‘The Times of London’ about the recent killing in western Zimbabwe of a lion named ‘Blondie.’ Reading about…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Cyril is at it again. He is organising a talk-shop. A “National Dialogue” starting in August. To quote Ivor Vegter in the Daily Friend “If there…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Week after week we hear how little money the government has for this or that. And week after week we becry the fact that SA is…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, This week was all about Wednesday.With Ramaphosa in America to meet with Trump and taking some Ministers with him, we, the world champion and I settled…
The ‘Boers’; Villains or Victims.
By Hannes Wessels, The first contingent of Afrikaner refugees has arrived in Washington DC to a warm welcome from senior officials in the State Department and Homeland Security. This is…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash Hello again, Dennis, that character of note, invited the usual suspects to join him at the CTPress Club on Tuesday. At our table were, as usual Paul, Henry,…