South Africa honors more than 600 dead in WWI ship sinking
(WorldNews Africa)

In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, a woman, left, walk near a memorial for the SS Mendi, right, in Simon`s Town, South Africa. South Africa will mark the centenary of the Feb. 21, 1917, Mendi sinking disaster when a British steamship accidentally rammed the smaller SS Mendi vessel in the channel between Britain and France, killing more than 600 southern African troops on board, most of them black. ......