Assembled burghers formed a 'commando'. Except for the artillery and the police in the second Boer War, no uniforms were worn, the burghers preferring drab everyday clothes. The Boer force is the ...

The British went into the Boer War over-confident and under-prepared. 'The Boers were well armed and these guerrilla fighters carried out surprise attacks on the British, as, without uniforms ...

A grinning student beckons to passers-by to sign his petition. He is wearing khaki shorts and a bush hat, the uniform of a Boer, a white 19th-century pioneer. He has a pipe in his mouth ...