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Stimela: Gold miners, circa 1910. Many of them were, for years, recruited in Mozambique and made the trip to South Africa by train. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
CHARLES VAN ONSELEN

Moz miners’ misery unveiled

Migrant workers faced many depredations on their railway trips to and from Mozambique

  • Shaun De Waal
9 min read
The Cowboy Capitalist: John Hays Hammond
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Imperial era’s toxic masculinity in focus

While a lot has been written about the Jameson Raid, Charles van Onselen managed to imagine a fresh contribution to the historiography

  • Shaun De Waal
5 min read
CHARLES VAN ONSELEN

Lord of the flies

Shaun de Waal reviews Charles van Onselen’s new book The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath

  • Shaun De Waal
5 min read