Remembering Louis Botha – South Africa’s First Prime Minister A century ago this week on August 27, 1919, General Louis Botha, South Africa’s first Prime Minister, passed away at the age of 57. In the Preface to his recent biography...
Towards a New Dispensation: Background to the Arrival of Indians in Natal in 1860,’ Natalia, Journal of the Natal Society, No. 40, 2010, pp. 12–19. ‘Colonial river port shipping on the South Coast, Natalia: Journal of the Natal Society,’ No. 41...
As intended, the front page image of the parade SANDF IFV Ratels published on February 22 as part of the commemoration of Armed Forces Day is impressive. Unfortunately, the image does not reflect the state of the SANDF. For a start, those Ratels...
The fully indexed second edition of this 124 page book, published in 2020, had its origins in a series of columns I produced for the weekly Caxton paper, the Southlands Sun, during the years 2017-2018. Following the success of the first edition...
It is a sad but well-known fact that the South Durban Basin is plagued by unemployment and impoverishment. The bright hopes of poverty alleviation which the proposed dig-out port once promised, never materialised. Yet now there are voices...
Defending the cause of justice was the centre of attention at the World Council for Health’s (WCH’s) virtual conference on understanding vaccine causation, on Saturday. Experts from around the world in the field of medicine, law and science...
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