John Elsegood can always be relied upon to entertain us with his trademark mix of sheer stupidity and complete lack of knowledge about the Boer War, and I was greatly amused when a friend shared a blast-from-the-past from the buffoon with me –...
Barely a month since MC Heunis won the coveted title of the most fanatical True Believer of them all (https://www.chrisash.co.za/2025/01/25/true-believer-world-championships/) a new challenger for the crown has emerged. A clown called Rudie...
I recently came across a remarkable claim in Ben Viljoen’s ‘Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War’ – a book not short on remarkable claims. Viljoen states that, shortly after the Battle of Vaal Krantz, his men captured a 50-strong troop of the 17th...
One will often hear that it took ‘half a million’ British troops to beat the Boers, but I recently read an even more far-fetched and ridiculous claim in a book called ‘The Road to Infamy’, by Owen Coetzer: It is interesting that Coetzer didn’t...
The British army’s complete lack of preparation for the Boer War is contrary to the myths which like to pretend it was a vast, behemoth of the thing, poised and ready on the borders of the republics, eager to invade. In reality, the army...
Throughout the decades of National Party rule, the myths of the Boer War went largely unchallenged in South Africa – but the times, they are a-changing, and the Apartheid-era fairy tales are finally being exposed as the rubbish they are. Seeing...
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