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To: E. Charters who wrote (3132)	9/26/2002 8:24:06 AM
From: Stephen O	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

I'm thinking of going back to UK and claim some land from the French who came in 1066. Failing that perhaps the French can give me a piece of France as compensation.instead.

To: E. Charters who wrote (3132)	9/29/2002 2:54:17 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

You probably got that idea from afrikaaner propaganda, that SA 'was never inhabited by blacks' ... actually, when Jan van Riebeeck [sp?] was posted to Table Bay by the VOC, the original plan was to establish a supply depot for the ships by 'hiring' local labour to grow grains and supply cattle ... trade with locals was tried, it didn't work well, not because of lack of natives, but because they didn't accept the business principles of the VOC ... to be non-judgmental about it, we can just call it culture clash .... but they were there, in two distinct groups - the people later called 'bushmen', and a taller blacker race [which later became known as Xhosa? - not sure] .... within very few years the VOC had brought in slaves from Guinea and the Slave Coast, finding them more controllable There never was a 'land without people' anywhere ... well maybe Antarctica, but then for good reason, as it remains so to this day .... this same argument, 'no natives so the land is ours', was used quite incredibly in the colonisation of Palestine - 'a land without people for a people without land' ... quite untrue, yet often repeated But this currently politically correct 'first nations' term amuses me ... the other day i ran into an old friend, a BC indian, he was driving a van marked 'X____ First Nation', we had a beer together and i asked him hey, without ten thousand years of comprehensive video tapes, how do you expect to demonstrate that you're the first nation, for all we know you are the seventeenth