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To: Enigma who wrote (25894)	10/8/2007 7:24:15 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81109

Enigma > I think it is a bit much to cite British Imperialism for the South Africans - a lot of water under the bridge over the last 100 years That's why I say that I can't speak for Afrikaners because there are many contradictions between what they say and what they do. But I can assure you that during the period of Nationalist rule the fear of British interference in SAn affairs was beneath the surface all the time. Indeed, and you may not know this, one of the reasons given for taking blacks/coloured people off the common voters' roll was because of the Afrikaner fear that the English-speakers would use them to gain a political advantage. Today, of course, the margins between Afrikaners and other SAns has become blurred but those who claim a Boer heritage, and there seem to be many judging from the popularity of the de la Rey song, still remember that Dutch/Afrikaner women and children died in the concentration camps as result of the British scorched earth policy against the Boers. And I can also tell you that many South Africans, and that includes blacks, are very dissatisfied with conditions in the country at the moment and with the way that the ANC government is carrying on -- corruption and graft is reaching mammoth levels and the crime is out of control. A great deal of the optimism seen during the Mandela presidency has evaporated.