After 1945, Africa became caught up in the confrontation between America and the Soviet Union, the so-called Cold War. Anti-Communism informed almost every aspect of the South African government's ...

The Parabats were first “blooded” in combat in 1966 during a counterinsurgency war in South West Africa (known nowadays ...

The last Boer guerillas surrendered in May 1902. The British kept South Africa, but the war had been a debacle. For English Canada, the war was viewed as the country's initiation on the world stage.

After the Second Boer War, the British transported as many as 9,000 prisoners to India, housing them in camps that often did not even have enough water.

South Africa's police minister Bheki Cele has said a surge in murders has turned his country into a place that "borders on a war zone." "Our bottom line is that this situation must reverse," he said.

The global arms trade has always been a shadowy industry, operating in the margins where war and profit intersect. It's a world most people don't think about until a story like Rheinmetall comes along ...