Just Off the Highway | Episode 38 | Boer War Justice? Or Revenge? The Question of Salmon Van As

December 17, 2024

The bullet holes in the wall tell a tale from the end of the 2nd Anglo-Boer War in 1902. Al Prodgers visits Heidelberg in Gauteng to find the sites of the “White Flag Incident” when a Boer soldier, Salmon Van As, controversially stood trial for killing a British officer.