What many don’t realize is that the Afrikaners settled much of South Africa’s Veld (farmland) when it was completely empty of inhabitants. They were the first. NOt a Xhosa or Zulu to be seen. They arrived after the white man had made the area productive. Sound familiar?
That was my understanding also. It is their land. It was uninhabited (except for a few wandering bushmen). The Boers developed the land, and then all the illegal immigrants from the Lake Victoria region swarmed in.
Of course, since it is Africa, melanin challenged people need not apply.
Israel too.