South Africa, WWI
Long forgotten, Black South African servicemen who died in WWI are finally honored with a memorial
More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial more than 100 years later
Particularly to-day most men assume that Africa lies far afield from the centres of our burning social problems, and especially from our present problem of World War. Yet in a very real sense ...
The nation's wildlife is under attack by poaching gangs. Luckily there are men and women in South Africa who have the courage ...
Africa has experienced decades of conflicts and wars, shaped by colonial history, ethnic and linguistic tensions, political instability, and struggles over resources. Despite the efforts of the ...
Many of those killed in the First World War had gone unacknowledged with bereaved relatives given little or no information ...
A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week rights a century-old wrong by recognising the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants who died in Africa in theatres of war, at sea and ...
Amadou Sar was one of over 120,000 West Africans recruited by France during the war. One of the country’s great enthusiasts for African recruitment was General Mangin. In 1910 Charles Mangin ...
The Princess Royal said the Cape Town Labour Corps Memorial is ‘a reminder of a shared but sometimes difficult past’.
In May 1862, during the Civil War, the steel-nerved ship pilot waited for the ship ... Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans’ right to vote in a ...
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