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...
I recently read the following statement: Battles aren’t decided on a spreadsheet of losses, they’re determined by which side achieved its objectives, and which didn’t — a lesson it would be incumbent on Americans to remember, as...
Suella Braverman: The Left may be ashamed of Britain’s history – but we should celebrate it Attorney General is proud of the British Empire for what it brought to the world in terms of language, culture and the industrial revolution By...
Richard Steyn is at pains to claim his biography about Milner was not written to continue the vilification of the man, and I do not doubt that he set out with honourable intentions. I must admit, however, that I feared the worst when I read, on...
Ever since I dared to challenge the Apartheid-era myths surrounding the Boer War, there have been those on the lunatic fringe who have frantically tried to silence me, dismiss my research, or otherwise ‘cancel’ me. Of course, one would have...
Realising that the much-cherished myths of the Boer War are so ridiculous and far-fetched, someone recently asked me how much longer they can last. In truth, it’s an impossible question to answer as, of course, one should never under-estimate the...
Quora provided me some amusement a couple of months back, when an entertainingly deluded lady posted this utter nonsense: Anyway, I pointed out all her mistakes, and we swapped a few messages in which she made herself look increasingly...
I was recently sent a newsletter of a company called Battle Tours which, among other things, included events which had happened during the various months of April during the Boer War. Two caught my eye immediately: April 1900: Boer activity in...
The Telegraph reports that Putin, addressing a much-reduced military parade (I wonder where all the missing tanks are?) today, claimed that Russia had no choice but to invade the Ukraine, because the West was “preparing for the invasion of...
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