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The short story has taken its place in literature as a distinct genre and can encompass parable, myth, folktale and anecdote. It often speaks simply of important things or, conversely, reveals importance in trivia. Frank O'Connor, an Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs, and whose name is commemorate in the O'Connor International Short Story Award, observed that the short story has never had a hero. This...

Private Robert Hart, just 18, in the green-and-black kilt of the Argyllshire Highlanders, gazed in awe at the wild skyline of fantastic mountains in the Cape spring of 1795. This was at the end of a four-month voyage of confinement, scurvy, and general misery in a troopship. Hart did not guess that this would become his home and he himself the first of all English-speaking South Africans. Had he kept a diary, it could have been taken as a text b...

The war against Malaboch has been extensively covered in articles published by the South African Military History Society and South African History Online, as well as in the Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. However, it was my reading of Notes from my Diary on the Boer campaign of 1894 against the chief Malaboch of Blaauwberg, district Zoutpansberg, South African Republic by the Rev Colin Rae (published by Juta in 1898) that sparked t...

David Hilton Barber traces the ancestry of his and other Pioneering South African families. Going back five generations, this highly entertaining, factual and interesting book is full of snippets of life at the turn of the last century. (the Saint) Frederick York St Leger was a classical scholar first, a clergyman second and the founder and first editor of the Cape Times. He was ordained in 1857 and for 14 years was an Anglican priest in the E...

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Gold mined at Tati was identified with the dynasty of the Queen of Sheba and the ancient rulers of biblical Ophir. David¿s book records how this notion, mentioned in Milton¿s Paradise Lost, was discarded as being romantic fiction. But romance there is here a-plenty.¿ ¿John Gordon Davis, best-selling author of Hold My Hand I¿m Dying.The concession to mine gold at Tati was granted to a British baronet, Sir John Swinburne, by Lobengula, last king...

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