It’s important that this brutal chapter in South Africa’s past be commemorated in the right spirit, to reflect, take stock and to heal.
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This history covers twelve decades, from the surrender of Boer guerrillas in the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902 to the July 2021 looting spree and violence.
Stories like the kind stored in this place, known as Telperion Shelter, provide history to a landscape and people.
Concentration camps are by no means only synonymous with Nazi terror or totalitarianism. In fact, concentration camps have deep roots in the culture and politics of Anglo-American liberal democracies.
A British Conservative MP has brought concentration camps during the South African War back into the spotlight.
For black South Africans, the hard lesson was the same as it had been during the Boer war: support for Britain would bring few rewards.
Canadians’ indifference to their military isn’t so surprising. Almost every military conflict has raised serious questions, and spurred divisive debate, about Canadian unity and independence.
Apartheid South Africa started a war in which it could not maintain a strategic advantage. It misread the quest for national liberation and international opinion that undermined its effectiveness.
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Program Director, Canadian Global Affairs Institute and Director of the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor, University of South Africa
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, History, MacEwan University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga
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Emeritus professor of History, University of Pretoria
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Senior Professor (Emeritus) and Research Fellow, Department of History, University of the Free State