The ongoing failure of South Africa’s education system
Based on many hundreds (thousands?) of conversations I have had since I first came to South Africa over 30 years ago, in my experience the average white South African would sum up the Boer War something along these lines: The Boers were peaceful, harmless people, who only ever wanted to be left alone. But the
‘The Rise of Krugerism – a tacit conspiracy’
We shall perhaps never know why it is that certain failed History Professors and online fanatics (plus their various toadies and hangers-on) squeal and scream that there is ‘no evidence’ that Kruger was in any way responsible for the war that he planned for and started. The very fact that he declared war and invaded
The National Army Museum version of the Boer War
While we all know that nothing but myth-laden nonsense will endlessly spew out of certain South African universities, one really hopes for a little more from an august institution such as London’s National Army Museum. It was rather a shame, therefore, to see that whichever work experience trainee they got to write the page on
The ‘Indian Reinforcements’, and understanding the timeline
‘Independence means Dutch independence, of a Dutch-ruled State, in which the resident foreigner cannot become a citizen. Defence means defence of the rule of a privileged race. No aggression on the British power means no present aggression; only aggression at a favourable opportunity’.[1] Michael Farrelly, advisory counsel to the Transvaal government in the years prior