South Africa – National Party, AB-BB, Israel and apartheid

* During the second world war the future South African prime minister John Vorster was interned as a Nazi sympathiser. Three decades later he was being feted in Jerusalem. In the second part of his remarkable special report, Chris McGreal investigates the clandestine alliance between Israel and the apartheid regime, cemented with the ultimate gift… Continue reading South Africa – National Party, AB-BB, Israel and apartheid

Shepstone and Boer republics

  * Sir Theophilus Shepstone was a British statesman who was responsible for the annexation of the Transvaal to Britain in 1877 and he was not the only one.   Theophilus Shepstone was born at Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol, England. When he was three years old his father, the Rev. William Theophilus, emigrated to Cape Colony. Young… Continue reading Shepstone and Boer republics