[Here is the first review we’ve had of one of the first people to read Robb Ellis’s “Without Honour”. The reader also mentions the piece where Robert Mugabe pulled Robb aside and chatted to him for quite a long time.

The reader is a S.African who is now living in the UK – and decided not to hang around for S.Africa to become another Zimbabwe! Wise move!

Re: Racist remarks
Man you should have seen the kinds of things the senior blacks in positions of power in Zimbabwe sometimes said to Robb… remember… he was a lone white man, surrounded by nothing but blacks, and reporting to blacks. You should see some of the stuff he had to face… and this was in “the good old days when Zimbabwe was MODERATE”… yeah…

re: Abandoning the Mainstream Media
Yep… another convert who wants nothing to do with the mainstream media… the mainstream media is on its way down the drain! Yipee! Jan]

Hi Robb,
I have just finished reading your book and wow. Very emotional and sad! I enjoy your style of writing. I kept wondering how you dealt with witnessing such atrocities. It made me realise (again) why I left (South) Africa. Call me over cautious but I would rather get out early than go through what you did. Guess I’m a scaredy cat. I was surprised that they made such racist remarks to you at work! I have been called “whitey” in SA a few times in the street and while it was tempting to yell: Screw you kaffir! (or something like that) I didn’t as I am sure I would have gotten jailed or the shit kicked out of me… or even worse… a bullet in the head. I still strongly believe blacks are FAR more racist than whites.

I enjoyed the bit about Robert Mugabe. Many people always say to me that the guy is a mad lunatic like Hitler or Stalin etc but I disagree. I think to get into a position like that requires intelligence. You don’t get to that position in life from being an idiot! I’m not saying I agree with what Mugabe has done to Rhodesia (far from it) but I do not think he is mad… just power hungry and willing to do whatever it takes to stay in power. I just wonder when SA gets its first dictator…

Please don’t stop writing, its people like you and Jan that make a difference. It would be great to listen to you again on the Right Perspective! I really enjoy the “raw” truth and that’s what I love about the internet. If you read/listen to the right sources you can get the greatest news ever. In fact, I don’t even bother with reading the mainstream news/media anymore. I apply that way of thinking to all areas of my life. I have never followed the crowd nor do I plan to!

I hope my Mom will read your book one day. She moves around quite a lot for her job and doesn’t have access to a PC most of the time so I am not sure when she will read it. As soon as she does though I will provide some more feedback for you.

Keep up the good work and we’ll chat soon!”