Was Mandela, The Worst Thing Ever To Happen To Black South Africans?

Yes or no?

White South Africans have been in the news lately.

About fifty of them took up Trump’s offer of asylum to the United States of America and arrived to much fanfare.

But what is interesting in all this is that no one talking about the historical underpinning of the South African polity.

Unsatisfied with the resources they stole on the West African coast, the Dutch decided to head south to see if they could find much more.

And to their surprise, they did.

This state of affairs informed their decision to settle in the Southern region of the continent.

It wasn’t enough for these atavists to plunder these resources, they also found a way to deprive the natives of what was theirs, using the notion of racial inferiority to justify their primitive behaviour.

The English, who had begun to arrive in small numbers, didn’t want to be left out of the action and it was only inevitable that wars would break out between the insatiable avaricious, thieving Europeans.

The Boer wars, which was waged for control of the vast diamond mines on African soil, led to the introduction of the first concentration camps, in which the vanquished Dutch were placed and it led to a coalition between the Dutch and English, while the natives were shut out.