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A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week recognises the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants.

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Forgotten no more: The Black South Africans who died in WWI Africa

Cape Town, South Africa – On January 23, 1915, two boatmen named Dolly Jenniker and Zulu Madhliwa drowned in the Orange River in South Africa. They were ferrying supplies to Union of South Africa forces which had invaded German South West Africa (GSWA, now Namibia) as part of the Allied campaign against Germany in World War I. When the Allies declared war on Germany, both sides’ colonies had been automatically included: South Africa was part of …

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… colonies in GSWA and German East Africa (now Tanzania).
The river was … in France and the nearly 55,000 at Ypres in Belgium. … Peace Conference in 1919, American delegate George Beer noted … the conquering Philistines of Europe.”
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The Princess Royal is president of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The Princess Royal will commemorate the sacrifices of black South Africans and other races who played a vital First World War role as military labourers when she visits the country. Anne will visit the Commonwealth nation next Tuesday and Wednesday in her role supporting her brother the King. She is president of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) and will unvei…

Anne to mark non-combat work by black South Africans during First World War

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