On January 23, 1915, two boatmen named Dolly Jenniker and Zulu Madhliwa drowned in the Orange River in South Africa ... expanded to include World War II casualties. With half a million bodies ...

Sam Nujoma, a freedom fighter and the founding president of an independent Namibia, has died. He led his country to independence from apartheid South Africa.

They were ferrying supplies to Union of South Africa forces which had invaded ... Its mandate was subsequently expanded to include World War II casualties. With half a million bodies it couldn ...

The parade is held annually on the second Saturday of February in remembrance of the soldiers who died in the service of South Africa.

The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

The governments of Rwanda and South Africa must do everything ... While he supported the military defeat of Adolf Hitler in World War II, arguing that his expansion across Europe was a serious ...

In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

The founding president of the Republic of Namibia, Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma (Sam Nujoma), passed away eight ...

Russell Clarence Nalle Jr., one of the last surviving World War II Tuskegee Airmen members, has died. He was 103.

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. But now ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...