Given the last few years of Orwellian ‘cancel culture’, social engineering and historical revisionism, nothing should astound us now, but this article in the Telegraph still made me raise an eyebrow...
I was recently made aware of a little fracas on one of the various FaceBook Boer War ‘discussion’ sites. It would seem the problem, however, was that someone had dared to discuss a few of the more cherished Holy Cows of Boer War myth: I have...
Another day, another entertaining encounter with a Defender of the Myth™. Responding to the age-old question about how important the gold mines were in terms of the causes of the Boer War, I explained the following: Gold had very little to do...
When it comes to the Boers War, the mark of a True Believing Defender of the Myth is the inability to look objectively at what actually happened, and to cling to the comfort of Apartheid-regime propaganda. This failing, typically combined with a...
On 6 October 1900, HM Government officially annexed the former Orange Free State, renaming the territory as the Orange River Colony. The capital, Bloemfontein, had been captured by British troops back in March of that year, though the OFS...
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