Fine Minds

Fine Music Radio — 'Whose war was it, anyway?: Jan Smuts, Louis Botha and the Union of South Africa in the First World War' by Professor Bill Nasson. Bill Nasson, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Stellenbosch and the author of several books including ‘Springboks on the Somme’ and ‘The War for South Africa’, will give the inaugural Fine Minds lecture on February 15 just after the 18:00 news (in the People of Note slot). His lecture, “Whose war was it, anyway?: Jan Smuts, Louis Botha and the Union of South Africa in the First World War”, will illustrate the varied ways in which South Africa – crystallised by the figure of Jan Smuts – understood the coming of war in 1914, experienced its subsequent pressures, responded to its opportunities, and coped with its burdens. Fine Minds has been made possible by a grant from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation