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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Jan Mashiani and Len Tau apparently found themselves in the US in 1904 as part of a world’s fair displaying ‘savages’.
Eugen Sandow’s visit to South Africa in 1904 was a triumph of colonial display and racism. Despite its prejudices it influenced the development of bodybuilding in South Africa.
Activists view their moral case for the return of the diamonds as unanswerable, but it runs up against many complications.
Following the war, the South African authorities were anxious to charge known war criminals, traitors and collaborators. But nothing came of it.
Stories like the kind stored in this place, known as Telperion Shelter, provide history to a landscape and people.
Art and visual culture played a significant role in building a unified Afrikaner nationalism that allowed apartheid to thrive. A new book unpacks the issue.
A British Conservative MP has brought concentration camps during the South African War back into the spotlight.
Court ruling may well undo decades of often racist cannabis law enforcement.
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