Humorous responses, I love em...
Hennie De Ruyter, a South African who was born here answered:
“We are not called the rainbow nation for nothing! We have it all. Not only do we have a lot of people of European descent but also from Asia; most specifically India. Many of them have roots going further back in South Africa than those from the USA.
Despite what you may read we get along well and peacefully.
The same apply to religion: we have all major religions here and no tension between them.”
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Bernhard Erasmus, a South African Sales Representative added his opinion: “So just to be clear are you assuming that if you are born in South Africa you have to be black or some other race? Just not white right?
That seems like a darn ignorant assumption to me. That’s like saying if Donald Trump was born in America why isn’t he a red Indian?
Google colonisation of South Africa. It was one of the key points to making the spice trade open. It was originally discovered by accident after a severe storm by a Portuguese captain named Vasco Da Gama (note this may not be 100% accurate, will confirm and update). Whom was trying to find an alternative to getting spice from the East to Europe as opposed to using the Arab controlled trade lines through the Eastern land route.
South Africa was colonised by Dutch, French, German, British and a dozen other cultures as a trading post and later as a colony.
Majority of these colonists were…….. Believe it or not…… White! And their children didn’t amazingly turn black or some other race just because they were born in South Africa. We fought two versions of the war of independence in neither case did we have assistance from any allies what so ever. We started guerrilla warfare, known to be probably the best marksman’s from horse back, decimating British soldiers in a 15 to 1 kill ratio for years. The British had to start using some the first versions of concentration camps and the “scorched earth policy” to stand a chance at beating us.
Winston Churchill was even a prisoner of war here but luckily managed to escape from a converted school house in Pretoria which served as a temporary POW camp.
During our last civil war we designed in some aspects better weapons/military systems than the Americans. Once again we had no allies yet we fought the Russians, Cubans and Swapo. Tactically we won, politically we conceded to end apartheid which was the right thing to do.
Please don’t make unnecessary assumptions about people being born in South Africa, we have an extremely rich heritage and we are vastly underestimated.
Edit: Thank you John Elsegood for correcting me on the Winston Churchill escape facts.”
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Kidding.
