Afrikaner friend is posting about how families leaving South Africa for the USA look like evil rednecks and obviously stupid. Other friends are chiming in how Trump is sending away Afghanistan refugees and that they're the wrong color, and that's why.
Then the English friends are posting about how Afghanistan being a terrible place and sending people back is a terrible thing. Meanwhile South Africa is a great place and no evil horrible thing is happening.
It's been going like this all day.
They can't, for a number of reasons. Afrikaners have lived in that part of the African continent centuries longer than the country's current Bantu majority. Oops! There was a small tribe of Black Africans in the same region, but I can't recall their name and wiki's Demographics page suspiciously lumps them all into "Black" and ignores actual ethnicity (something that was not the case 10 years ago). From the late 19th to mid 20th century monied interests allowed the mass migration of Bantu groups as cheap labor. Sound familiar? This obviously lead to South Africa's segregationally oriented laws of the second half of the 20th century. Was it unjust? Maybe, but the results of ending Apartheid were a disaster. Don't believe me? Ask the Zulu monarch. Then of course, there's the killings...
The Khoisans are the indigenous peoples of South Afrika, then came the Dutch / Afrikaners who largely cohabited peacefully on different parts of current South Afrika.
Then came the Bantu invaders, who slaughtered Whites and Khoisans. The Bantu mass-migration continued after the bloody mitilary invasions.
Thanks. I had the damnedest time trying to find their name on wiki2025.
I didn’t know Zulus were still around. Was their war with the British after the Afrikaners arrived?
First Afrikaners arrived in the mid 17th, and the Zulu war was in the late 19th. I should note my initial comment does over simplify things a bit, but the complexities of ethnic/tribal groups of central and southern Africa and the migrations of the past few centuries are complicated and, frankly, not something I'm an expert on. For example, the Zulu kingdom of the 19th century is a tiny tiny portion of what is today South Africa. PS. Zulu (1964) is a fantastic movie.
Thanks! I need to see that movie. That is a topic I have been meaning to research further (Zulu war and history of South Africa). I also heard that the tribes that the Zulus were terrorizing helped the British similar to the tribes in Mexico helping the Spanish against the Aztecs
That is my understanding. Its high time people reexamine "colonialism" for what is was: pre 20th century geopolitics. The history of colonialism in India is particularly amusing. Two centuries of local rulers wanting foreign assistance (due to invaders, competition, or civil uprising) and having to give something in return for said assistance. Turns out that that the British didn't conquer India, a couple of centuries of self-interested local rulers sold out one bit at a time. Then the locals bitched until the Empire gave them their country back (infrastructure and all) for free. And today Indians claim the English owe them $45 Trillion dollars. Its a hoot.
The indigenous people to South Africa are the Zulu, Khoisans, and the Afrikans. The Bantu should be deported.
Apartheid was shit for a lot of reasons, and the racism wasn't even the worst part. You could have ended Apartheid without explicitly allowing a race communist take over, though.