02-10-2016, 11:33 PM
(02-10-2016, 05:58 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: No. There had been Africans living there since the Bantu expansion hundreds of years prior. The Dutch were the first to establish longer lasting settlements and had some minor skirmishes with the Xhosa people. The British then came to town and fought with the Dutch Boers and the Zulu people. The Zulu were in the eastern region but moved south after European expansion and the slave trade pushed more northern tribes into the region. As more people were forced to the area, the Zulu attempted to take territory in the south to make room for these new people.
So it sounds like these individuals are attempting to suggest no tribes lived in SA (which is false) and that the Zulu wanted to take away this great society that the British had built. While they did expand to lands once held by African tribes but now Europeans, it was in response to a migration crisis caused by the Europeans. Basically, the Europeans stole land and they unsuccessfully tried to take it back.
That history lesson aside, life was awful for Africans and Indians (80% of the population) in South Africa.
I am sure you might be right, like I have stated, can't validate the claims made by the Afrikaners. However they do paint a different picture than what is widely accepted by MSM. This sounds like it is straight from a history book or from a college course.
