“The Enemies of Truth – Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies” Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher The other day, I watched a documentary film on Netflix, called ‘Behind the Curve’, which is all about the (apparently...
Lord Roberts had spent the week following the mass Boer surrender at Paardeberg reorganizing. His horses had been in a shocking state and the rapid advance had outrun his supply chain. By 7 March 1900, however, he was on the move again. General...
Bruce Gilley is one of the few academics today who are prepared to state the truth about Colonialism. This article is especially well worth reading: A big dose of colonialism is needed to fix Yemen
A friend let me know that some self-loathing, ‘right-on’ morons were up their normal tricks in Glasgow a couple of weeks back: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scunnered-mp-blasts-hipster-war-14022348 This is, of course, a...
Just a couple of days after Rees-Mogg made his comments on the BBC, old Prof Pretorius has feverishly swung into action to defend the Apartheid-era myths...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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