In prison cell I sadly sit, A dammed crestfallen chappie, And own to you I feel a bit– A little bit—unhappy. It really ain’t the place nor time To reel off rhyming diction; But yet we’ll write a final rhyme While waiting crucifixion. No...
There’s a damper in the ashes, tea and sugar in the bags, There’s whips of feed and shelter on the sandridge for the nags, There’s gidya wood about us and water close at hand, And just one bottle left yet of the good Glenlivet...
Oh! the quiet river-crossing Where we twain were wont to ride, Where the wanton winds were to sing Willow branches o’er the tide. There the golden noon would find us Dallying through the summer day, All the weary world behind us – All...
I realised many years ago that those who are the most determined to be stridently ashamed of Britain’s colonial history / Britain’s part in the Boer War do not actually study or read about it at all, let alone objectively. Instead, they have...
Regular readers of this blog will know how much I enjoy the mental gymnastics and feats of self-delusion that Defenders of the Myth have to indulge in, so as to keep their National Party fairy tales staggering on a little longer. With this in...
I was recently made aware of this article: https://www.litnet.co.za/krugers-earring/#comment-369008 I will let you make your own mind up on it, but what interested me more was the comments section, and the fact that the person who sent me the...
‘When I was a child, the Matabele came, they swept over us like the wind and we bowed before them like the long white grass on the plains. They left us and we stood upright again. The Boers came and we bowed ourselves under them in like manner...
I am always amused by the way Defenders of the Myth approach the Boer War with a very fixed notion of what they want to have happened – ie. that the Boers were helpless, innocent victims of a nasty British bully, but, at the same time, also the...
There are a couple of Facebook Boer War groups where many who pretend to be interested in the Boer War hang out. I say ‘pretend’, as it would seem most do not actually want to learn about the Boer War at all, or discuss what really...
As I have noted previously, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine has put today’s True Believers in a rather awkward spot. The great panjandrum of National Party Myth, poor old Prof Pretorius, was forced to engage in some hilarious mental...
Peter Dickens recently posted another excellent, detailed, and well-researched article on his blog: War is Cruelty In this, almost as a passing comment, Dickens noted that the guerrilla phase of the Boer War lasted about two years – meaning it...
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at...
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