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Russian volunteers honoured at Anglo-Boer War Museum

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A plaque has been unveiled commemorating Russian volunteers who had fought in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Timed to coincide with South Africa’s Heritage Day, the...

Book review: The Great Boer War

It is interesting and entertaining when a great novelist turns to telling great history. Dr Arthur Conan Doyle served as a volunteer...

Book Review: Goodbye Dolly Gray

Rayne Kruger's Goodbye Dolly Gray is a remarkably prescient and erudite single-volume account of the South African War, aka the Second Boer...

A century ago…

Last year Business Day editor Peter Bruce noted that several important centenaries had passed us by as a nation in the year...