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Forgotten no more: The Black South Africans who died in WWI Africa
A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week recognises the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants.
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WW1: Why was the first German defeat in Africa?
A British liner carrying 30,000 chests of tea was captured by a German cruiser off the east coast of Africa ... west while the French arrived from the east. Together they took control of the south.
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1,772 Black servicemen who died in WWI were ignored in South Africa. At last they are being honored
They didn't serve in Europe but in the fringe battles in Africa, where Allied forces fought in the then-German colonies of German South West Africa (now Namibia) and German East Africa (now ...
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Plagues of Locusts in South Africa
The Central Bureau comprises representatives of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Southern Rhodesia, Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Swaziland, Mozambique, and German South-west Africa ...
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Forgotten no more: The Black South Africans who died in WWI Africa
They were ferrying supplies to Union of South Africa forces which had invaded German South West Africa (GSWA, now Namibia) as part of the Allied campaign against Germany in World War I.