In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.
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Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...
However, technology had come a long way from just a few decades prior, when, during WWI, military aircraft were in their infancy and the entire idea of using aircraft in warfare was fairly foreign.
The mostly young opponents of capitalism hailed mainly from Switzerland and Germany, according to Keystone-SDA. However, demonstrators from Belgium, Portugal, England and even Peru also found ...
A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week rights a century-old wrong by recognising the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants who died in Africa in theatres of war, at sea and ...