Tagged: world war two

1. 01 The trade · 25 Mar 2026 The Wartime Rooibos Boom the Record Cannot Quite Confirm Every rooibos history repeats the same line, that a wartime tea shortage turned South Africa onto the red bush. The shortage is well documented. The rooibos surge it supposedly caused is far thinner on paper, and here is what the record does and does not support.