This is particularly evident in the hand-to-hand combat scenes where Stanley Baker (as Lieutenant Chard), Michael Caine (as Lieutenant Bromhead – both real warriors of the real battle) and their men fight off the Zulu warriors in-spite of being heavily outnumbered.
Pretoria has drawn international attention since passing a controversial law in January permitting the expropriation of land, most of which is owned by white farmers, without compensation.
a BBC team in White South Africa was cautioned. The team had superimposed images of South African Army tanks and armoured cars as a backdrop to a peaceful European park scene. The caption read, ‘Whites relax but only when protected by their Apartheid army.’
THE TRAIL BENEATH THE TEARS (Farewell to Africa) . It was when the grind and grumble, Of those wagons passed this way, The colour sergeant’s bark was never meek, The sighing strain of steel, That was bound fast to the wheel, Was melody to rumble and to squeak. […]
CHURCHILL AND THE BOER WAR ‘There is only a means, the resistance of the Boers to break; namely the toughest oppression. In other words, we need to kill the parents, so that the children have respect for us.’ ~ Winston Churchill, Journalist, Morning Post. NOTE: Boer concentration camp […]
On the sombre occasion of Remembrance Sunday, the nation selectively remembered. Airbrushed from the occasion the 26,121 Rhodesians who fought for Britain during WWII in which 916 gave their lives. Also blue-pencilled the 784 members of the British armed forces and their families who lost their lives during […]
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