Black October: the Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on South Africa by H. Phillips, 1990, South Africa

World War I

This feature commemorates the outbreak of the First World War. This major historical event became known as  The Gre

Louis Botha

Boer general and statesman

How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018

"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of Afric

A Critical Analysis of Union Defence Force Operations during the Afrikaner Rebellion, 1914-1915 by Antonio Garcia and Evert Kleynhans

SS Mendi

The sinking of the SS Mendi was caused by the reckless action of the captain of the SS Darro. It remains the greatest wa

Equatorial Guinea

12 October 1968, Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain