Tag: boer war
Russian volunteers honoured at Anglo-Boer War Museum
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...