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Subject: Re: South Africa
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Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 20:43:01 EDT
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Just some notes (nitpicks?) on SA history.  walton@ametek.UUCP wrote:

               "When the British took control of the Cape during the
    Napoleonic Wars, the entire Boer population packed up and moved
    1,000 miles inland rather than live under British rule."

Disregarding the fact that the above is a somewhat oversimplification
of the reasons for the Great Trek, the entire Boer population
definitely did not pack up and move out.  Not even if you take "Boer"
to mean what it really means, namely farmer and not Afrikaner as
people are wont to do.  It was mostly farmers in the border (frontier)
districts of the Cape Colony that moved away - just as they had moved
away from the Dutch government in the Cape in previous years (they
were a self-willed lot).  In fact, some Afrikaners in the Cape were
very much opposed to the trek by their fellow Afrikaners

For an interesting book on the history of the Afrikaners (up to the
early sixties), try "The Afrikaners" by John Fisher.

As for Kissinger's proposals - to me it makes a lot of sense.

Riel Smit                                              +1 519 888 4004
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