News for people temporarily entering South Africa with vehicles registered abroad
From 1 June 2026, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) will require that all vehicles that are registered abroad have…
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America’s emperor from the Cape …
By Alana Bailey This month’s contribution about traces of local history abroad is not about a monument, but about a…
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Travel disasters and tips to prevent them
By Alana Bailey People who live or work abroad usually travel quite often. Sometimes it is to explore their new…
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The Boer cemetery and monument in Sri-Lanka
By Alana Bailey The Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) not only caused losses on both sides, but had the consequence of prisoners…
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Those who died “with lives unfinished” – South Africans remembered in Romania
By Alana Bailey Romania is a country that is relatively unknown to most of us, yet even there, traces of…
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South Africans’ brave participation in the Warsaw Airlift of 1944
By Alana Bailey Although South Africans were not unanimously in favour of participation in the Second World War (1939-1945), as…
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“Oom” Paul Kruger’s travelling Boer sentries
By Alana Bailey Recently the Kruger Monument on Church Square in Pretoria was in the news due to the vandalism…
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Strengthen your family ties across the oceans
By Alana Bailey The festive season has come and gone, as have in-person and online visits. Most people’s lives are…
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Boer graves on St Helena
By Alana Bailey St Helena is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, approximately 2 700 kilometers from Cape Town. It…
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The amazing Emily Hobhouse
Much has been written about Emily Hobhouse, the “heroine from afar” as author Rykie van Reenen described her. This Englishwoman,…
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