Cassius
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« on: March 11, 2017, 08:46:51 AM » |
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I'm not a great expert, but I think you're overemphasising the role of the 'Boers' in creating apartheid - neither DF Malan (the first apartheid Prime Minister) nor Hendrik Verwoerd was a Boer, and much postwar leadership cadre of the National Party had been educated at Stellenbosch University, which had a reputation for extremely strong Afrikaner nationalism (applying that term in the sense of all white Afrikaans speakers as opposed to merely Cape Afrikaners like Malan), which was (is) located in the Western Cape. Maybe if the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic had been left independent then Cape Colony and Natal would have evolved in a more 'Rhodesiaesque' direction, due to the proportionally greater influence of English speakers (who were hardly saints when it came to racial matters, as I'm sure you're aware) than in the Union of South Africa, but that's really water under the bridge.
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