In Episode 7 of Oom Willem van den Berg’s travels this week, we pick up his trail on another tour through South Africa—this time to KwaZulu-Natal, almost 100 years ago. He makes a couple of fascinating pit stops along the way, including a historic Anglo-Boer-War monument. At the time, this war (also known as the Second Boer War or the South African War, which took place from 11 October 1899 to 31 May 1902) would still have been fresh in everyone’s minds.
Over the first six episodes of O...