Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape ... non-combatant roles in East Africa but until now, they had ...

Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial ... Africa (now Namibia) and German ...

said the memorial was a "culmination of years of work". "It acts as a poignant tribute to the predominantly black South Africans who fought in Africa during the First World War and who were not ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — 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.