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I’ve been reading a book about The Boer War in South Africa. The book was written about 1900 by an English author.

The author claimed that South Africa was populated by a tribe called “The Bushmen” when the Dutch arrived in South Africa. He said there were very few of them and they basically disappeared.

He claimed that the tribes migrated down from Central Africa after the Dutch were there.

Interesting book. It’s from the British point of view.

He has a lot of bad things to say about “the Dutch race”.

[Ancesthntr]

The author claimed that South Africa was populated by a tribe called “The Bushmen” when the Dutch arrived in South Africa. He said there were very few of them and they basically disappeared.

He claimed that the tribes migrated down from Central Africa after the Dutch were there.

That's the exact same thing that happened in Israel - in 1867, when Mark Twain visited what was then called Palestine, it was a wasteland with very few people (but notably containing a healthy percentage of Jews in Jerusalem). Starting in the early 1880's, Jews started immigrating from Russia and later Eastern Europe, and built a civilization. ONLY THEN did the Arabs from local areas come in (to find jobs, food and medical care)...and then like true Moslems they claimed the land as theirs.

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James Michener told a similar story about the settlement of South Africa in his novel "The Covenant." I found the parallels between pioneers in the American west and the Boer Trekkers in South Africa pretty interesting.

"He has a lot of bad things to say about “the Dutch race”."

I bet the Boers, interned in British concentration camps, had some choice words about the English.