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2007-06-24 Africa Subsaharan

Bittereinderdag (Bitter-ender Day) in Orania.

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Posted by Besoeker 2007-06-24 05:56|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Afrikaner made a bad mistake a long time ago when they didn't do everything in their power to bring endless numbers of Dutch and Fleming to fill South Africa.

Instead the British soon overwhelmed them. And while they would have probably still been heavily populated with British, it would have been far harder for them to have been muscled around to the point of extermination.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-24 09:53|| 2007-06-24 09:53|| Front Page Top

#2 The Brits didn't just overwhelm them with immigrant numbers. They waged a war of conquest and partial extermination, herding captured Boer women and children into concentration camps (where some 50% of the children, and 25% of the camps' population overall, died of overexposure, disease and starvation), while the Boer POWs were exiled overseas. Death rates for the Boer-territory native Africans, herded into separate concentration camps, are not known because records weren't kept, but are thought to be similar, if not worse.

All this because gold was found in the Transvaal, and the Brits wanted it. Wikipedia

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-24 13:33|| 2007-06-24 13:33|| Front Page Top

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