A Bone To Pick
Skyways|March 2019

Off to an island in the Mid-Atlantic – in search of ancestors.

Siyethemba Mthethwa
A Bone To Pick

It all started with the wrong booking. The plan was for my husband and I to visit St Helena. Partly, the trip was meant to be an extremely belated honeymoon. But foremost, we had a twofold mission: to try to find the graves of seven Zulu poll tax prisoners who died on the island between 1907 and 1910, and to find out about the life of King Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo during his imprisonment on St Helena between 1890 and 1897. He had children born on the island, some who died there, and we wanted to see their graves, too.

この記事は Skyways の March 2019 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。

この記事は Skyways の March 2019 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。