Despite being the sons of Africa, the hundreds of soldiers who served in non-combat roles between 1914 and 1918 have been ... Zwelethu’s great-grandfather was part of the Labour Corps during WWI. He ...

Despite being the sons of Africa, the hundreds of soldiers who served in non-combat ... grandfather was part of the Labour Corps during WWI. He says he is proud that his great-grandfather is ...

Despite being the sons of Africa, the hundreds of soldiers who served in non-combat ... grandfather was part of the Labour Corps during WWI. He says he is proud that his great-grandfather is ...

The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their names, forgotten for more than a ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

A February 2024 file photo of the remains of South African soldiers who were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, arriving at Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria, South Africa.

The experience of African American soldiers in Europe in WW1. videoThe experience of African American soldiers in Europe in WW1 Historian David Olusoga examines the racial prejudice experienced by ...

The death of South African soldiers on a Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sparked fierce debate about the deployment of South ...