>> Some Afrikaners are moving to Orania trying to build their own homeland.Of cours Afrika is complexed,the first Dutch who landed there and worked the land over 300 years ago had a rough time.Nothing comes for free it has to be earned.
Actually Dutchie at first view I didn't take in the historical depth of what you were saying. It's true that the first Boers to arrive in the Cape found, it is said, only nomad populations there or semi-nomad ones, Hottentots and Bushmen. So the Boers were the first to plough the land and do proper farming there. Later the British came with 18th century progressive ideas of big-scale ranching... but meanwhile the Bantu tribes were driven south in ever-increasing numbers by wars further north. Anyway that is a schematic, Boer-friendly version. In the late fifties the British fascist Oswald Mosley who by then was supporting the early stirrings of apartheid had a bee in his bonnet about the Hottentots and those movements of population. His followers knew the story by heart.
I am guessing that Orania is what we used to call the Orange Free State?
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