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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (22927)	4/13/2005 7:08:42 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81343

Gus > How come you fetched up down there? I must have missed something? You can ask the same question to any immigrant to a country in which they were not born and that includes all of America and Australia. And the story usually given would be to escape from religious and other forms of persecution. But who really knows? Maybe it was simply greed? The attraction of newly discovered land? Newly discovered gold and other wealth? The urge for something different? Personal independence? Actually my father was born in Australia from Eastern European stock. He and his parents came to the Cape Colony in the 1890s. That was after the discovery of gold and diamonds. I suppose they fancied the prospects in Africa better? My mother's mother came out to be a "waitress" in a "restaurant" in early Johannesburg and she met her husband here. As you see, I had very humble beginnings. BTW, I agree with your article about the Afrikaners but I would say it would apply to most settlers who came to the Southern tip of Africa in the early days. >>Their contributions to the development of southern Africa are undeniable, although these have been overshadowed by their association with the disastrous policies of apartheid. Shorn of power and privilege, they stand at the threshold of a new era. Possessing a language and culture that is unique to southern Africa, the "white tribe" of Africa has no other home, and its future is inextricably linked to the fortunes of southern Africa and the country of South Africa. Strong initiative, independence and decisiveness are characteristics of the Afrikaners, developing out of their pioneering spirit and the difficult circumstances of their early history and the political dominance of the British.<<