Roger Russell: 10 books

There were many motivations for the Police walk undertaken in 1999/2000 not the least of which were personal and selfish. However the mugging of Roger Russell, the attempt on his life and theft of all of his equipment at a well-known squatter camp put the event on the International map. The young...

Copper has been mined at a site in the North of Namibia since ancient times. People reputedly came from all over the world; as far afield as Rome and England to buy the precious metal. The ore body was laid down by volcanic activity followed by water infiltration and other geological events. The rock...

Sometimes life looks to be really awful and we seek a little relief by walking and thinking. This man died being transported to Australia but now he knows something and wants to share it…

A collection of short stories and some poems written in Africa; some are real and some fictional. Most of them are based on events that happened far below the surface of the earth in a world that is in fact stranger than fiction. They are of random events and thoughts with no particular theme.

After the troubles of the Middle East had exposed the corrupt workings of American and British corporations in the exploitation of resources in that rich region, a counter movement was started by an extremist group known firstly as ISIS, then the Islamic State and finally became the Chronicles of...

We are on a fast track ride into the future. The speed of change is exponential and the predictions of just yesterday are today already outdated. In the light of new cyber technology space travel is unnecessary, the world has become a single massive brain and our ideas of how we will live in the future are completely invalid. This is not fiction. Some food for thought…

Quinton is a young man from a wealthy family in South Africa exploring his sexuality. His experiments lead him to the violent world of Hillbrow, Johannesburg and some hard lessons on the realities of an alternative lifestyle. When he finally goes home it is to find that nothing can ever be the same...

Herman is born in a rainstorm in an African forest. His mother dies giving birth to him and he is handed over to local villagers by his father who wants nothing to do with him. Herman spends four traumatic years learning that he is white and different to his African playmates. He becomes violent and...

Despite the power of modern communication we must still wonder at the use we make of our information. News reports start with pictures of war cemeteries in Europe followed by graphic details of slaughter in the Sudan and end with massive profits earned by big business? We must ask ourselves are we not learned enough, technical enough and rich enough to build a better world; It seems not…

There is a body of men and women who buy and sell shares in companies and thereby earn the wherewithal to live. Some of them buy shares in mining companies. The pursuit of money blinds many of them to the things that other people are doing to keep that money keep coming in. Between the shareholders...