A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week rights a century-old wrong by recognising the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants who died in Africa in theatres of war, at sea and ...

On January 23, 1915, two boatmen named Dolly Jenniker and Zulu Madhliwa drowned in the Orange ... as part of the Allied campaign against Germany in World War I. When the Allies declared war ...

Beyond these bare facts, little has been known for more than a century about Jenniker and Madhliwa – or any of the other 1,700 South Africans of colour who died in World War I in Africa. But now ...

died in 1996 he left behind an impressive collection of war medals. His only son who had inherited them allowed his stepmother to keep them at her home for safekeeping. When she died three years ...

A Carlisle family has said that they are 'surprised' after finding a German First World War medal in their garage. After receiving a leaflet through their door about a local antiques fair in February ...

John Beadon, 75, says he is disappointed to have been outbid on the collection he claims had been left to him by his late father A war hero’s medals have been sold for almost £5,000 after his ...

A Carlisle family has said that they are 'surprised' after finding a German First World War medal in their garage. After receiving a leaflet through their door about a local antiques fair in ...

The court cases challenging Zulu King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini's rise to the throne are yet to be heard in the appeal court, says cultural expert. Misuzulu ka Zwelithini., king of the Zulu nation.

About 4,000 people gathered in the eastern town of Isandlwana on Saturday to commemorate the 125th anniversary of one of the Anglo-Zulu War's most brutal battles. About 1,500 British soldiers and ...

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