Libcom

To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps

To many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd Anglo Boer War’ (or just shortened to ‘The Boer War’) is one of a struggle of the Boer ...
EWN Sport

'A battle of invaders': Revisiting South Africa's first Boer war

The First Boer War of 1880 to 1881 has been described as a short but defining conflict that reshaped South Africa’s political landscape. "It's just simply a war of invaders at the expense of the ...
Libcom

Boer war

The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and… Women & Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902 The Boer war involved ...
The Conversation

How the First World War rewarded white South Africans, but not black compatriots

Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London The outbreak of the First World War, coming little more ...
Reuters

Scottish ghosts of Boer War roam South African plain

MAGERSFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters Life) - Springboks bound amongst the thorn bushes of Magersfontein during a sun-filled South African day. But local people say that the night belongs to the ghosts ...
Windsor Star

Brown-John: Windsor rededicates memorial to 'forgotten' Boer War

According to local military historian Hardy Wheeler, the restoration work will result in a memorial very close to what existed when it was originally unveiled in 1906 in the downtown. The rededicated ...