We left off late in the morning of January 12, 1962 with the Divisional South Special Branch Officer, Inspector Innes-Ker, having finally contacted Nelson Mandela at the ...
We left off late in the afternoon of January 11, 1962 with Mandela’s driver Mohammed Cajee, then travelling under the alias Mohammed Ismael, having been hauled into...
When Batswana enlisted in the African Pioneer Corps from 1941 they were assured by both their Dikgosi and British officials that their tour of duty would last until the...
We left off in August 1944 with Batswana APC companies engaged in allied efforts to overrun the German 10th Army’s last major defences in the mountainous terrain of...
After the fall of Naples and the crossing of the Sangro and Volturno rivers, in October-November 1943, fighting between the Anglo-American led United Nations and German...
With the nation going to the polls this week, we take a pause in our coverage of Batswana in World War II to look at the dynamics of our first national election, held i...
We left off with at the port of Bari, Italy, where the Batswana of 1979 APC Smoke Company lost five men, with another seven critically wounded, while distinguishing the...
We left off in the second week of September 1943 with Batswana HAA gunners amongst the British X Corps artillery that was valiantly holding off the German 10th Army&rsq...
We left off on September 9, 1943 with Operation Avalanche, the landing of the American led but multinational US 5th Army at the beaches of Salerno bay in Italy.
We left off with Batswana APC artillery and smoke companies of the British 8th Army having distinguished themselves during the initial phase of "Operation Husky", the J...
Open and vigorous debate is the fuel that fires and sustains any democracy, which is why true democrats will always welcome the robust exchange of diverse opinion. The ...
We left off in November 1941 with the arrival of the first seven companies of Batswana APC, some 2,500 troops altogether, at the Qasassin Pioneer Corps depot in Egypt, ...
We left off in the middle of 1941 with dikgosi throughout the Bechuanaland Protectorate calling up their mephato or age regiments for enlistment in the African Pioneer ...
We last left off with the observation that, at the time of outbreak of the Second World War, the bitter experiences endured by veterans who had served during the First ...
The advent of this coming month will mark the eightieth anniversary of the September 1, 1939 German invasion of Poland, an event that set off the cataclysm of World War I...
Previously, it was noted that the 1936 High Court Judgement in the case between Dikgosi Tshekedi Khama and Bathoen II versus the High Commissioner had upheld the latter&r...
As previously noted, in November 1933 Resident Commissioner Rey had decided as part of his plans for the relocation of Molepolole away from its two then existing clusters...
In our last episode we observed that the initial protests of Dikgosi Bathoen II and Tshekedi Khama, along with the emergence of rising BoSebele agitation within Kweneng c...
By the end of our last episode the Bechuanaland Resident Commissioner, Charles Rey had during the first week of June 1931 lured Kgosi Sebele II to Mahikeng, supposedly to...
