Opinion

Durban’s historic clock tower overrun by trees as eThekwini Municipality remains silent

This is Durban’s Central Post Office clock tower with trees growing out of its clock face. Opposite the City Gardens and the Memorial to the Fallen. Once the Durban Town Hall on whose steps in ...
The New York Times

GREAT BRITAIN HUMILIATED.; Boer Campaigns Cause a Sense of Exasperation.

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Prince Albert Daily Herald

South African War -1899–1902

The South African War was a conflict between the British Empire and Dutch settlers, known as the Boers. It was fought in southern Africa from 1899 to 1902 and is also known as the Boer War. More than ...
EWN Sport

'A battle of invaders': Revisiting South Africa's first Boer war

The First Boer War of 1880 to 1881 has been described as a short but defining conflict that reshaped South Africa’s political landscape. "It's just simply a war of invaders at the expense of the ...
The Australian

The compassionate Englishwoman who fought a war to save the Boer

The British Army, led by the likes of Lord Horatio Kitchener of Khartoum fame, not only burned most of the enemy’s farmhouses but herded thousands of people, in particular Boer women and children, ...
The White House

RESTORING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF WAR

Section 1. Purpose. On August 7, 1789, 236 years ago, President George Washington signed into law a bill establishing the United States Department of War to oversee the operation and maintenance of ...
NPR

Decades later, Karen de Boer still remembers a kind gesture from her college hallmate

This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. In 1990, when Karen de Boer was a ...
Newsweek

Trump Highlights South Africa’s ‘Kill The Boer’ Chant: What To Know

In a tense White House meeting with South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, President Donald Trump showed footage of two South African politicians chanting "kill the boer, the farmer." Trump wanted to ...
Ars Technica

xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa

Users on X (formerly Twitter) love to tag the verified @grok account in replies to get the large language model’s take on any number of topics. On Wednesday, though, that account started largely ...
Counterview

Revisiting Gandhi’s role in the Boer War: Loyalty to empire or moral contradiction?

A recent article by noted academic Prof. Hemantkumar Shah is likely to spark fresh debate over Mahatma Gandhi’s controversial role during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. Writing in ...
JSTOR Daily

LEAVING A MARK: SOUTH AFRICAN WAR-PERIOD (1899–1902) REFUGE GRAFFITI AT TELPERION SHELTER IN WESTERN MPUMALANGA, SOUTH AFRICA

The South African War is unambiguously associated with men. Their conflicts, politics and war-time activities are well known and dominate research trends. More recently, however, there has been a ...