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Untitled[edit]

This is going to be a longer article summarizing the wars in southern Africa from the Anglo-Zulu war in 1879 to the last Boer rebellion in 1914 (as well as the fight between Britain and Germany over Walvis Bay in 1914-15)

It is underconstruction but will be up within two weeks.

It is based on the temporal framework of Martin Meredith, "Diamonds, Gold and War," (New York: Public Affairs, 2007), which does not limit South African Wars to the two Boer Wars but looks at the formation of southern Africa generally (not a consolidated colony until 1910). It includes both regions that get left out and included and considers not only wars between colonists of European descent (i.e. the English vs. the Boers).

Full citations of all material will be in place with the finished site.

Links and additions are of course welcome.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbatchelor40 (talk • contribs) 14:11, 11 September 2008

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This article is far too long - extensive sections of it have nothing to do with the title and are therefore irrelevant. The article also does not show how the wars - which already have their own articles anyway- are connected to one another. I am not sure that they all are. Usually only the two "Boer" wars are connected.--79.78.228.207 (talk) 19:53, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I cannot see a theme or a thread here. It is dangerously like a random collection of facts about South Africa and also some of its neighbouring countries as well - and that not even restricted to the time period in the title. In particular, the Pioneer Column section is seriously flawed as it was not a war (and not normally considered an invasion either) and the opinions expressed in it are not supported by most researchers so I am raising a neutrality issue here.--Mountwolseley (talk) 16:22, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 00:39, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]