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<blockquote data-quote="andybob" data-source="post: 1549125" data-attributes="member: 2703"><p>Again the history is more complex, the Afrikaans people - "Boers" literally farmers firstly trekked with their servants who were attached to families for generations, and were of mixed race, and often part of the family - frequently literally, so no new labour was needed on the farms. All that the Boer people wanted was to have their own republics where they could farm and live according to their beliefs and culture, they were not miners, the British and other uitlanders flocked in to the gold and diamond rushes, the large companies which arose from these gold and diamond discoveries - Anglo American etc, would rather have cleared the local natives out and contracted labour from other states so as to not have a troublesome local population - many Shangaan tribesmen were in fact contracted from Mocambique for decades to work in the gold mines. The gold and diamonds brought only war to the Boer people and they lost their republics and the tribes eventually lost their independent territories to the British who brought all under one union, this was the opposite of what the Boers wanted which was for each group to rule their own in their own lands - apartheid or separate development so as to not have the larger tribal groups dominating, several small tribes made alliances with the Boers for protection against the larger tribes, rather than suppressing the Bantu immigrants, they just wanted to live in peace in their own land and have cordial relationships with their neighbours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="andybob, post: 1549125, member: 2703"] Again the history is more complex, the Afrikaans people - "Boers" literally farmers firstly trekked with their servants who were attached to families for generations, and were of mixed race, and often part of the family - frequently literally, so no new labour was needed on the farms. All that the Boer people wanted was to have their own republics where they could farm and live according to their beliefs and culture, they were not miners, the British and other uitlanders flocked in to the gold and diamond rushes, the large companies which arose from these gold and diamond discoveries - Anglo American etc, would rather have cleared the local natives out and contracted labour from other states so as to not have a troublesome local population - many Shangaan tribesmen were in fact contracted from Mocambique for decades to work in the gold mines. The gold and diamonds brought only war to the Boer people and they lost their republics and the tribes eventually lost their independent territories to the British who brought all under one union, this was the opposite of what the Boers wanted which was for each group to rule their own in their own lands - apartheid or separate development so as to not have the larger tribal groups dominating, several small tribes made alliances with the Boers for protection against the larger tribes, rather than suppressing the Bantu immigrants, they just wanted to live in peace in their own land and have cordial relationships with their neighbours. [/QUOTE]
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