Military historian Dr Suryakanthie Chetty, in an essay on South African propaganda during World War II, said: “The Nationalists were vociferously opposed to black South Africans in the army at ...

Soldiers for Britain. In West Africa, Britain began to expand its Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) – from a small number of 18,000 men in 1939, it grew to 150,000 by 1945, producing 28 ...

Chief Warrant Officer Charles Laubscher and Master Chief Warrant Officer Ketshwerebothata R. Boikanyo from the South African Army took part in a U.S. Army Africa command visit Sept. 26-29.

For more than a century, from 1857 to 1960, soldiers from Africa fought for France in African colonial wars, in the trenches of World War I, in the World War II campaign to defeat the Nazis and in ...

In South Africa, the policy of apartheid was yet to be introduced officially, but it was ‘de facto law.’ The state policy was strict: there was to be a white army only. No black African could ...