Hundreds of South African soldiers, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured in Cape Town with a new memorial. After the war, they were not recognized because of British colonialism's racial policies and then South Africa's apartheid regime.
in Cape Town with a new memorial. After the war, they were not recognized because of British colonialism's racial policies and then South Africa 's apartheid regime.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission hopes the memorial will right a 110-year-old wrong by commemorating each veteran with an African Iroko hardwood post bearing his name and date of death. An inscription on a granite block at the memorial in Cape Town says:"Your legacies are preserved here." 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… On the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, few remember that Africa became a battleground for the Germans, British and French, drawing in 95,000 Africans, writes ...More than 100 years later, a war memorial pays tribute to the Black South Africans who fought in World War I.
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