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The Boer War
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The Boer War (1899-1902) was a time of courage, hardship, and change that shaped the history of South Africa.
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Unlike Jeannot's War, which is based on the real experiences of the author's grandfather, Salt in the Earth is a work of historical fiction. Its characters and story are imagined, but they live in a world shaped by the real people, places, and events of the Boer War.
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Through their adventures, readers are invited to experience the hopes, fears, friendships, and challenges of a remarkable period in history, discovering that even fictional stories can help us better understand the past.
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Based on the letters and remarkable experiences of the author’s grandfather, Jeannot’s War follows eighteen-year-old Jeannot Weinberg, a young immigrant whose new life in South Africa is shattered by the Anglo-Boer War. Fighting beside the Boers, he faces the brutal realities of battle, arrest, trial, separation, and imprisonment in distant camps. Woven around genuine letters, real historical figures, and carefully researched events, this powerful historical novel explores courage, loyalty, family, survival, and sacrifice. It brings history vividly to life while revealing the deeply personal cost of war through the eyes of a young man caught in an extraordinary historical conflict.
Salt in the Earth is a stage play set against the Anglo-Boer War, imagining the reckoning history denied. Narrated by Alfred Dreyfus, it places Lord Kitchener before a tribunal led by Marie Curie, Theodore Roosevelt, and Booker T. Washington. Boer survivor Elize Schoeman, Black African survivor Edward Dhlamini, and reformer Emily Hobhouse testify about Britain’s scorched-earth policy and deadly concentration camps, while Lord Roberts, Joseph Chamberlain, and Alfred Milner defend imperial decisions. Blending historical figures, documented events, and dramatic invention, the play challenges audiences to weigh military necessity against suffering, responsibility, prejudice, moral courage, and the enduring demand for justice.
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