The Boers arrived in a land almost COMPLETELY DEVOID of people.
S.A. farms feed, on average, 3000 people - meaning they are large (so an obvious target for evil class and race agitators). Moreover, because S.A. is semi-arid, the farms must be large, to cover the large investment in irrigation and machinery. So that means the best S.A. farms are also highly complex and technical.
So it won't take much for the hard-core Marxists in the ANC to destroy food production there.
You could say the same thing about illegal immigrants coming into areas of the Southwest US. Doesn't give them the right to stay. Boers are African DREAMers.
The original SA Boers encountered the Bushmen who are not of the negroid race.
The black tribes arrived from central Africa much later and are the invaders.
That does not matter to the ignorant world that fosters the myth that Africa as a whole is a Black continent.
We should accept all of the white SA farmers in trade for the BLM morons who think they are African. An uneven trade to say the least but a win for the U.S.
It will return that way when they leave. Just a matter of time.
The natives were pastoralists in a landscape much of which ranged from grassland to savannah to semi-arid. They were spread pretty thinly on the ground, and they moved around. Such landscapes tend to look empty to farmers. The same observational bias factors into accounts of the European settlement of North America; the vast forests of the eastern U.S. looked largely empty to the Europeans but were considered traditional hunting grounds by the tribes, who visited them only sporadically.
The Zulus were moving south at the same time the Boers moved north. The Zulus were busily exterminating the other tribes as they came. The Boers and later the English saved the other tribes by stopping the Zulus.
I try to tell that to all the leftists that say the white deserve this.