Hundreds of South African soldiers, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured in Cape Town with a new memorial. After the war, they were not recognized because of British colonialism's racial policies and then South Africa's apartheid regime.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) hopes the memorial will right a 110-year-old wrong by commemorating each veteran with an African Iroko hardwood post bearing his name and date of death. An inscription on a granite block at the memorial in Cape Town says: "Your legacies are preserved here."
The CWGC built the memorial to correct a historical oversight.
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