With the sad death of HM Queen Elizabeth II, a few deeply pathetic individuals have crawled out of the woodwork to make cruel and ill-informed comments, bizarrely delighting in the death of a 96-year-old lady. Arguably the most deranged and...
I was recently made aware that one of the more entertaining online True Believers / Defenders of the Myth has publicly conceded he cannot challenge the facts I present, the quality of my research, or the historical veracity of my writing: You...
I recently stumbled across an article in the (God-awful) Guardian from a few years ago, which offered the ’10 best revolutionaries’ in history...
It is only human to feel a pang of sympathy for the increasingly beleaguered Prof Pretorius[i], as he desperately tries to defend the indefensible. It cannot be easy to go in to bat for Kruger’s Transvaal – an extremist quasi-theocracy so...
Anyone bothering to read about the Battle of Elandslaagte will see that it is an almost perfect case-study which rebuts many of the lingering Apartheid-era myths which still surround the Boer War – and which are still much-loved by certain...
Though I have no interest in social media, I am sometimes made aware of the rubbish spouted by True Believers on various Boer War Facebook pages. Increasingly desperate to defend their much-cherished National Party myths, these fanatics are often...
Alas, few of those holding strong opinions on history bother to actually read anything about it… and those that do seem to rely on Wikipedia, rather than books. The following article in today’s Telegraph should (but won’t) give...
This plaque is the sort of thing one sees dotted about in South Africa, and which subtly maintain the Boer War myths: Unfortunately, this description of the action at Kalkheuwel is rather poorly-written and inaccurate, meaning that a visitor will...
I recently stumbled across this article: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-07-24-african-support-of-russian-invasion-extraordinary-after-the-continents-colonial-past/ I don’t disagree with his overall point – ie. that it is disgraceful...
The parallels between the Confederate ‘Lost Cause’ movement of the American Civil War, and the myths that – even today – surround the Boer War are remarkable. For those who are unaware, the Lost Cause of the Confederacy is not based on historical...
There is a passionately-held belief among a certain section of South Africans that the Boers were amazing guerrilla fighters, and that they ran rings round the ‘blundering Brits’, leading them a merry dance in one of the longest, most hard-fought...
Cecil John Rhodes was born in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire. The son of a Vicar, Rhodes was sent to South Africa as a 17 year old, in the belief that it would be beneficial for his health. Though today’s woke fanatics frantically try to...
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