From The Thornveld July 2025 – Welcome
  • Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle

    Max Hastings, Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle (London: William Collins, 2025) D-DAY ‒ Operation Neptune followed by the start of Operation Overlord and final nail in the coffin of Nazi Germany ‒ was a triumph […]

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  • Mzala and Buthelezi

    THE EARLY 1990s were a time of acute instability in South Africa; but also of great hope. Structural change was yet to start, but many of the apartheid regime’s proscriptions, such as censorship, were falling […]

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  • The High Treason Club: The Boeremag on Trial

    Karin Mitchell, The High Treason Club: The Boeremag on Trial (Cape Town: Penguin, 2025) THE TRIAL lasted nine years, occupied 1 280 court days, involved over 200 witnesses and produced a transcript of 60 000 pages. Twenty-three […]

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