World War 1 represents Smuts at the peak of his military abilities, but it is also the period when the seeds of his eventual demise and alienation were sown. ‘General Jan Smuts and his First ...

A new war memorial in Cape Town, South Africa, remembers the close to 2,000 casualties who served in Africa during World War 1, between 1914-1918 and who have no known graves and because they were ...

Searching for Africa’s lost World War soldiers, a name and grave at a time. Historians dig into the past to uncover graves and commemorate the Africans who died fighting for Britain.

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.