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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Coming from Wales to SA obviously one the places I wanted to visit was Rorkes Drift – by the time my project allowed I had an Afrikaans girlfriend (who is now my wife) who had recently left school (about a year earlier) – when I told her where I wanted to go she knew NOTHING about it so I asked her brother who was still in school who also knew NOTHING – so I asked many people and found some of the old ones knew but few of the young ones.
This was explained to me as “since 1994 SA history has been re-written – only battles won by “non whites” are now taught.
It was actually a follow on statement to show how "history is written by the victors".
There is a museum there and although it can be difficult to find once you get near the signs become good and the people I found wonderful – we got there late saw Rorkes Drift and got to Isawanda on closing time – the guy gave us the key to the gate, told us where his house is and asked us to lock up and drop the key off when we’d finished.
I still have not seen the film Zulu for sale or hire here.
This was explained to me as “since 1994 SA history has been re-written – only battles won by “non whites” are now taught.
It was actually a follow on statement to show how "history is written by the victors".
There is a museum there and although it can be difficult to find once you get near the signs become good and the people I found wonderful – we got there late saw Rorkes Drift and got to Isawanda on closing time – the guy gave us the key to the gate, told us where his house is and asked us to lock up and drop the key off when we’d finished.
I still have not seen the film Zulu for sale or hire here.
