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• Motivating Factors in Foreign Volunteering: Tibor Péchy’s Enlistment in the Anglo-Boer War

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  Gábor Szabó-Zsoldos

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  58

  Twelve Hungarian volunteers have been identified so far among the 2,500 pro-Boer
  foreign volunteers who were ready to sacrifice their lives in the war between the Boer
  republics and the British Empire (1899–1902). The overwhelming majority of these
  volunteers travelled to South Africa to join the commandos of the Boers following the
  escalation of the conflict. Tibor Péchy was one of the Hungarian combatants, but in
  contrast with the other Hungarian volunteers, he had been living in South Africa since
  1896. This makes him a special Hungarian participant of the Anglo-Boer War. The present
  paper analyses the motivating factors behind Péchy’s enlistment with the Boers.

• ‘Historiese improvisasie’: Verhalende geschiedschrijving in de roman Skepelinge. Aanloop tot ‘n roman (2017) van Karel Schoeman

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  Toni Bandov

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  35

  Karel Schoeman’s fictional historiography Skepelinge. Aanloop tot ‘n roman (2017) offers
  an alternative representation of the early colonial history at Cape of Good Hope with its
  pronounced emphasis on marginalized individuals or groups and unrealized social
  potentials of the (hybridized) colonial society. By activating forgotten or concealed
  narratives and alternative visions of history and by writing from the position of historical
  ‘losers’, the text also contains an anti-colonial potential and reveals a constant ideological
  struggle in the historiographical representations. The novel therefore fits into the postapartheid literary trend of rewriting (national) history, parodizing canonical texts and
  criticizing the ideological strongholds of Afrikaner nationalism.