Though the centre of Ladysmith is not what it used to be, it is still worth a visit to see the Town Hall and Siege Museum. The pair of squat and tubby guns which stand guard in front of the Town Hall – and which look as though they belong at the...
There isn’t really a great deal of fiction written about the Boer War – unless one counts the stuff by Thomas Pakenham and Prof Pretorius? It was thus refreshing to stumble across a bone fide adventure novel set during the conflict, though –...
I had always considered The Spectator to be a decent magazine, and articles by Matthew Parris – the former Conservative MP – to be worth reading… until I stumbled across this utter trash: Afrikaners have been endlessly maligned Matthew Parris...
When most people visit the English city of York, a visit to this place is invariably first on the agenda: For those with an interest in the Boer War, or who don’t enjoy being trampled underfoot by Chinese tour groups, however, I heartily...
After being entertained by his utter rubbish yesterday (https://www.chrisash.co.za/2024/07/17/o-canada/) I thought it would be fun to pay another visit to the wacky world that is Planet Pretorius. It is clearly a place completely devoid of all...
There seems to be something about the surname ‘Pretorius’ that makes those blessed with it completely incapable of understanding the Boer War – or, indeed, pretty much anything else. I was made aware of the latest example of this bizarre...
There has recently been an exchange of letters in the Telegraph, concerning the chocolates sent on behalf of HM Queen Victoria, to soldiers in the Boer War: Which was followed-up by: As the letters above suggest, HM the Queen decreed that every...
‘The Falklands Play’ was written back in 1983, and is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and during, the 1982 Falklands War. It was originally commissioned by the BBC for production and broadcast in 1986, but – due to lots...
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...
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