The tragedy of the SS Mendi – South Africa’s greatest wartime loss
Collated by Peter Dickens On 21 February 1917, during World War I, this chartered troopship – the SS Mendi – containing a full battalion of South African Native…
Read more
Not for Ourselves, but for Others
Collated by Peter Dickens On 21 February 1917, during World War I, this chartered troopship – the SS Mendi – containing a full battalion of South African Native…
Read more
Rare photo of South Africans in action during World War 1. Battle of the Menin Road Ridge; part of the Ypres initiatives. Here a wounded South African is being given…
Read more
This article was published in the Cape Argus on 17th July 2014 under the title “Private Beleza rests in a home fit for heroes” and is reprinted here with…
Read more