The Facebook group set up for colourised Boer War photos seems to have attracted some of the thickest and most fanatical True Believers, so one is guaranteed a good deal of self-pitying nonsense from them. Recently, this photo was posted: To a...
Apparently there’s a very stupid person who loiters around in the various Facebook Boer War echo chambers, and rather pathetically seeks to dismiss all my writing and research by pretending that I am ‘a journalist’. Needless to say, I am not, but...
Life can be unpredictable, but there are still a few near-certainties… the sun will rise in the East tomorrow morning, England will always lose to Germany in a penalty shoot-out, and John Elsegood will continue to humiliate himself by posting...
The sheer delusional stupidity and ignorance of True Believers is always amusing, but a couple of them recently took things to new heights of entertainment. On one of the various Boer War Facebook echo chambers, a fellow Jopie de Beer made this...
I recently read Anthony Beevor’s excellent ‘Arnhem – the Battle for the Bridges 1944’. It is up to his usual brilliant standards, and well worth a look. There was one particular section that I found especially interesting: Outside the perimeter...
After decades of no one really challenging the self-pitying Apartheid-regime version, from about 2005, things started to collapse for the lovers of Boer War Myths, with several propaganda-busting books bursting on to the scene. Perhaps most...
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