Yes, the Zulu Kingdom, under King Dingane, betrayed the Boer settlers in 1838 by massacring Piet Retief and his delegation after luring them into Zulu lands and then attacking Boer camps in order to genocide them. This act of betrayal ignited a war known as the Battle of Blood River, where the Boers, using a fortified wagon laager(a fort created with wagons), successfully defended themselves against Zulu attacks, leading to a significant turning point in the conflict for land and control. That the Boers weren't violent colonizers. These Africans literally wanted to genocide white people just for existing in Africa. Now when the British came along, they learned about this. So that might explain why the British were the way they were in South Africa.
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My understanding as well. The Bantu migrations were relatively recent, though they had reached everywhere except the furthest southern parts, eastern parts, and anywhere north of the Sahara by the time of European colonization, I think they where still confined in the Ghana/Liberia/Cameroon/Gulf of Guinea area in time of Socrates.
Yes and South Africa was such a horrible, racist, negro-hating Apartheid state that pretty much the entire continent wanted to immigrate.
Literally the same bullshit that's happening today with Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The most racist places on Earth but everyone wants to move there.