Richard Steyn

LOUIS BOTHA, THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER of the Union of South Africa, was a brilliant Boer general who won significant victories over the British in the early stages of the Anglo-Boer War. When the weig...

If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality, South Africas history would have been quite different. Parliaments narrow decision to go to wa...

Jan Christian Smuts was soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africa's greatest leaders. Yet little is said about him today even as we appear to live in a leadership vacuum. Unafraid of ...

Jan Christian Smuts was soldier, statesman and intellectual, one of South Africas greatest leaders. Yet little is said about him today even as we appear to live in a leadership vacuum. &nbsp...