Ordinary Springboks: White Servicemen and Social Justice in South Africa ... - Neil Roos - Google Books

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'Springbok' was a term used to describe the 200,000 white South African men who volunteered to serve during the Second World War. Volunteers developed bonds of comradeschip, and rites of passage were expressed in the idiom of 'the front'. Without…