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>>>I'd have thought that, by your name, WC would be considered an enemy. Or do old grudges not count any more in SA?
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>>Terry, firstly I'm from Holland, not an Afrikaner. Secondly SA's people come from many different backgrounds including a small percentage who are Afrikaner and hence who are the group who could possibly care about what happened back in 1899. I doubt that many people alive today in SA could give a rat's keester what happened all those years ago, Afrikaner or otherwise. And those that do cling to that incident need to get a life.
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>Oh I naturally assumed that living in SA, with a Boer-like name [gdr], that you were an Afrikaner - reasonable assumption, I guess.
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>Having been to SA myself I'm well aware of the difference between an anglo- and a dutch-Afrikaner - the "eccent" for one thing, hey? And of course I'm well aware of the multitude of other races there too.
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>I'm glad that there is no emnity about the Boer War. Though I find it surprising, considering the Brits employed concentration camps and a scorched earth policy to defeat the Boers. I mean, the treatment of the Irish back in Oliver Cromwell's day is STILL resented to this day, along with using the Dutch Prince William of Orange to defeat the Catholics, and is a big reason for "The Troubles" and the tensions that exists to this day.
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>So tell THEM that!

I am aware of the atrocities committed during the Boer war and I guess I cannot really know if the Afrikaners still have a problem with it since I have not conducted the necessary research. But its certianly not something one hears about much.

Look me up when you're in SA next. When was the last time?