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Ruth Weiss: German Jewish journalist and novelist honoured in Courtroom 600 Nuremberg where the Nazi war-crime trials started in 1945
Ruth Weiss: She writes about the greatness and baseness inside us all. By TREVOR GRUNDY On July 5, 2022, Dr Frederick Lubich of the Old Dominion University… Read more >
Ndabaningi Sithole: Zimbabwe’s forgotten intellectual and leader
Jubilant supporters welcome Rev.Ndaabaningi Sithole back to the land of his birth in 1992 (Picture: Trevor Grundy) Guest writer of the month Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford (Reproduced… Read more >
Winston Churchill: New book emphasises the dark side of Britain’s best-loved war-time leader
‘Winston Churchill – His Times, His Crimes’ by Tariq Ali (Verso, 419 pp. £25.00) Trevor Grundy reviews a book that could open the eyes of a new generation of… Read more >
John Thomson (1931-2022): New Zealand journalist who never stopped loving Tanzania
John Thomson, a dedicated journalist who loved Tanzania and who did his utmost to explain Julius Nyerere’s socialist socialist policies to the outside world (Picture courtesy of Meera Webster, John… Read more >
British author calls for immediate help for a South African who dared speak truth to power and who now roams the streets of southern England homeless and hopeless
SPECIAL REPORT Katiza Cebekhulu left his home in the township of Mpumalanga in Zululand, South Africa, in 1988 go get to Johannesburg. He was escaping a life of poverty,… Read more >
White Malice – New book exposes the lies and hypocrisy of Western intelligence agencies when the white colonists left Africa
WHITE MALICE – The CIA and the decolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams (Hurst Publishers, London, pp 651. £25.00 in UK) Reviewed by Trevor Grundy Winston Churchill… Read more >
Barbara Hall MBE (1923-2022): A woman of talent and courage who had a never-ending love for Zambia
Barbara Hall MBE, doyen in the world of crossword compilers and editor of a book that helped whites in Africa understand more about the people they lived alongside but who… Read more >
Max Mosley remembered: His mother nicknamed him ‘The Determined One.’ We called him ‘Golden Balls’
Max Mosley in 1961 when he was a Union Movement election agent legally responsible for a pamphlet circulated in Manchester that claimed ‘coloured’ people brought disease, crime and poverty with… Read more >
Sky-rocketing xenophobia in South Africa fuelled by mis-management and ANC corruption
There is growing support for Nhlanhla ‘Lux’ Dlamini and his put South Africa first protests. GUEST WRITER OF THE MONTH by Andrew Field Harare, Zimbabwe – –… Read more >
Queen will miss Commonwealth Day but Baroness Scotland will be there lobbying to be re-elected as the club’s Secretary-General
Baroness Scotland – In search of another term as Commonwealth Secretary-General By Trevor Grundy Queen Elizabeth won’t be at the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on… Read more >