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 Modern Traveller, Hilaire Belloc In the war with the Zulu people of South Africa in 1879, the British suffered a humiliating defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana, but went on to win the war.