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    What is interesting is how SA history is being rewritten.
    I was taught about the Mfecane and Defecane in history at school and how this left the vacuum for the great trek. Now this is being rewritten
    During the last half of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth, dramatic developments transformed the nature of African societies, and altered the demographic shape of South Africa. These have been referred to as the Mfecane (for Nguni speakers) and Difaqane (for Sotho-Tswana speakers) on the highveld. Before the 1970s, scholars generally thought that these changes derived from the growth of the Zulu kingdom under Shaka in southeast Africa, and that the changes had begun to occur at the end of the eighteenth century. Since the early 1990s such views have been modified. It is now accepted that the Zulu were by no means the only ones responsible for the warfare that spread throughout the southeast African coastal areas and the inland regions.

    Now it is generally recognised that other African chiefdoms responded just as vigorously and innovatively to the changing conditions of the late eighteenth century. The geographic focus of the process has been expanded to include the interior of South Africa, and the beginning of the Mfecane has been extended backwards from about the 1790s to the mid-eighteenth century. Geographically, the sphere of the Mfecane has now been broadened to include communities of the entire western highveld. Link
    So history is being rewritten in the eyes of our present situation this is quite a process to watch and makes you think about how slanted history is!
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    Quote Originally Posted by IanF View Post
    So history is being rewritten in the eyes of our present situation this is quite a process to watch and makes you think about how slanted history is!
    It is always advisable to get the story from both sides and to come to your own conclusions, which should be somewhere in the middle. There are heroes and coward on both sides. There are victories and lost battles, but the victor gets to write history.

    Fortunately the truth has a way of getting out, either by letters or word of mouth accounts of the people who were there, or by reporters, official documents or recorded news. That is the reason why we should NEVER allow the ANC to curb the freedom of the press!
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    At a dinner in 1989, I complemented our elderly host on the most beautiful yellow wood dining room table.

    He explained that it was an heirloom from his late grandfather who was a sergeant in the British army, posted as a guard at a concentration camp. His grandmother was a prisoner there and the two married shortly after the war.

    The table was part of the furniture which was buried on the farm and recovered by the family after the Boer War. Apparently many of the Boer women buried their valuables in expectation of the raids by the British forces who torched and looted the farms in retaliation to assistance given to the Boer forces.

    There are many letters in the British museum and archives confirming this and giving a witness report of the atrocities.
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    I think we must bear in mind that even if their were no black tribes in certain areas of the country during the 1800's, the law during the last hundred years or so forbade blacks from owning land in the greater part of the country even if they had the funds to buy it.
    This is more the bone of contention, they are not contesting the homelands for instance although I feel that should be put in the pot for calculations as well?
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