Rees-Mogg on ‘Question Time’
Straight talking Brexiteer, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, seems to have ruffled a few feathers by daring to challenge the myths of the Concentration Camps on the BBC...
A Cloud of Falling Stars
By early 1902, the forces of De Wet and Botha were little more than fugitives, doing their best to avoid the relentless sweeps of Kitchener’s flying columns and no longer able to mount significant operations. Taking care to avoid anything that...
How to get a glowing review
A friend of mine made me aware of a book (or, rather, a couple of books) about the Boer War which I had not previously seen. Catchily titled, ‘Die Anglo-Boereoorloog, ‘n Chronologie & Die Kaarte’, this claimed not only to be a full chronology...
A hopeless cause?
Afrikanderdom has awakened to a sense of earnestness which we have not observed since the heroic war of liberty in 1881. From the Limpopo, as far as Capetown, the second Majuba has given birth to a new inspiration and a new movement...
On this day in 1901: The action at Cyferfontein
As 1900 ended, the Guerrilla War still spluttered on. Commandos under De le Rey, Kemp and Beyers had concentrated and, on 13 December 1900, attacked the camp of General Clements at Nooitgedacht in the Magaliesberg mountains to the west of...
On this day in 1895: The Jameson Raid
Some time back, there was a movement in South Africa against a patently unfair franchise system. This system kept the vast majority of people devoid of rights, stripped of the vote and treated in every way as second class citizens: obliged to pay...
Boer War Bingo 2.0 – ‘The Truth Hurts’
I note with interest that some especially obsessive devotees of ‘Boer War Bingo’ find ways to play it in discussions in which the Boer War is not even involved. A friend forwarded me a link to a story on Africaunauthorised.com, titled ‘The Truth...
Nurse, Nurse – it’s getting worse
Though their latter-day supporters desperately try to re-invent the Boers as the poor, innocent victims of the piece – honourable, peaceful men suddenly attacked by the wicked British Empire – the reality is, of course, rather...
Berg Times Balderdash
One of the most entertaining things in life is watching the mental gymnastics which Defenders of the Myth™ put themselves through in order to maintain their preferred version of the Boer War. These people will shamelessly twist themselves in...
Colesberg codswallop
While looking for some maps of French’s campaign around Colesberg, I came across this entertaining website: www.karoobattlefields.com/colesberg This section of text caught my eye: The Boer strategy The Boers were fighting a primarily...
Boer War Bingo… The First Boer War
I have long noticed that each and every question about the Boer War can be guaranteed to prompt the same responses from a certain type of person. Indeed, so predictable is this, that I have come to think of it as ‘Boer War Bingo’, with the aim of...
No wonder the myth survives…
I stumbled across this entertaining alternative reality online: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuid-Afrikaansche_Republiek Second Liberation War [ edit | edit source ] A border incident, intentionally caused by Rhodes and its accomplices, led to...