At the end of February of this year, news fell as a funeral wreath for the flourishing of "democracy" in South Africa: the country's parliament voted by a majority vote to expropriate the lands of the white colonists without any compensation. In general, there is nothing surprising, since what began under the slogan "kill the Boer", which neither the "democratic" West, nor, sadly enough, some Soviet communists from a group of especially ideological ones wanted to notice, could not end otherwise. Under the shadow of the fight against apartheid, without understanding the essence of this phenomenon, the most caveman black racism crawled out into the world. And this is not a figure of speech, since in the parliament of this dying country, the initiator of the bill, Julius Malema, directly stated that "the time of reconciliation is over."
By the way, Julius is a typical Nazi. And this young man was fed by the African National Congress (ANC) party, i.e. the same rainbow and myth-cemented organization, whose president was Nelson Mandela, licked by the press and cinema. Now Malema is actively campaigning for the deprivation of not only land from the white population, but also mines, factories, factories, but what a trifle, and personal property.
In between discrimination against white Africans and open attacks on unwanted journalists (Julius regularly punches his position in the media with his fists), this political leader goes for a drive to the super popular Nigerian preacher TB Joshua. Citizen Joshua's church regularly announces the facts of healing, miracles and even offers services of rituals reminiscent of exorcism, and the pastor himself is credited with a prophetic gift and, at the same time, a fortune of several tens of millions of dollars.
Therefore, despite the fact that Malema has been repeatedly accused of tax evasion, money laundering and incitement to extremism ("cut whites" - quote), he remains Teflon. Even when in 2013 Malema was taken on a hot ride after driving at a speed of 215 km / h in his BMW in a specific state of consciousness, he was immediately released after paying a fine of 5000 rand (however, this is familiar to us). Either influential friends are the support of the tireless Julius. Either the ability to mobilize illiterate black masses for riots with the help of the old as the world and the promising slogan "take away and divide" helps him not to fall out of the cage. Either the entire schizophrenic reality of South Africa has led to the untouchability of such citizens.
Most likely the latter. And here it is necessary to roll back a little into the past, when the very horror story of "apartheid" was born, in the fight against which historical objectivity, as well as modern realities, finally disappeared in the fog of myths and stereotypes. It was this information fog that made ordinary people believe that whites in South Africa are an anachronism of a planter with slaves, the country itself is getting rich only thanks to the work of blacks, and the population is strictly divided into a fattening white minority and a single oppressed black majority … The latter is absolutely fierce delirium, given that the people of the Kosa and the Zulu, even at the end of the dismantling of apartheid, cut each other with Auschwitz enthusiasm. This was despite the fact that both belonged to the Bantu group.
The first white settlers from Europe appeared in South Africa in the 17th century. And the Bantu people, who now more than anyone else screaming about "injustice", did not even smell there. At that time, small and fragmented groups of Bushmen and Hottentots, belonging to the Khoisan language family, lived in part of the vast territory of the future South Africa. The peoples were engaged in nomadic cattle breeding, gathering and hunting. According to one version, they were driven to the south by the Bantu peoples.
Much later these events in the 19th century, a large expansion of the Bantu peoples began. A great impetus in this direction was given by the ruler of the Zulu Chaka, he is sometimes called the black Napoleon. Chaka was the illegitimate son of the Zulu ruler. Papanya did not particularly favor the "left" family and soon expelled his mother and son. The son grew up, became sad, tied up with the support of a neighboring tribe and ascended the Zulu throne himself.
Having crushed rivals into a small vinaigrette, Chaka got a taste and decided to create a real empire. The main achievement of Chuck's reign is the advanced, for the African continent, of course, the reform of the troops. The mobilization of the male population was introduced, the previously formless crowd was divided into divisions, regular training and exercises were carried out, and the previously generally accepted ubiquitous mating, even in the conditions of the campaign, was prohibited on pain of death. Thanks to strict discipline, the new Zulu empire began to grow before our eyes. The tribes, previously peaceful and sedentary, having fallen under the dictates of the "black Napoleon" were obliged to serve him or … or everything. So the empire set in motion thousands of people in the south of the continent - someone fled to the desert lands, someone joined the ranks of the Zulu army. All these events went down in history under the name "mfecane", which means grinding - not a bad term, isn't it. The people involved in the bloody turnover themselves became conquerors as part of the Zulu army or simply during the search for new lands.
Chuck himself was characterized by despotism and bloodiness. As a full-blooded absolute monarch, which he considered himself to be, Chaka decided to subjugate any authority, be it judicial or religious. The old tried and tested system of sorcerers was carried over the bumps. There was a murmur among the people. As a result, the "black Napoleon" was killed by his own brother.
At the same time, the Zulu empire was already in military clashes not only with the Boers, but also with the Hottentots and Bushmen, whom the Zulu joyfully massacred. The growth of the so-called "country of the Zulu" was generally accompanied by the massacre of entire villages, but it is not customary to pay attention to this. But the movement of the Boers in territories that have never been controlled by a separate people, either politically or militarily, is called "bloody." At the same time, the resettlement of the Boers was essentially an escape from the British. And, finding themselves on the borderlands and partly controlled by the new Zulu empire lands with small centers of uncut Bushmen, they sent ambassadors to the ruler of the empire to obtain permission to build and live. They were treated in the best traditions of Chuck, i.e. as well as Chuck himself finished.
The war broke out. The settlers caught on the way were massacred by whole families. A week after the assassination of the ambassadors, the Zulu killed over half a thousand Boers. Finally, the Boers, who are famous as good hunters and well-aimed shooters, having no opportunity to retreat (there is simply nowhere), won a brilliant victory in one of the decisive battles - the Battle of the Bloody River. Several hundred Boers armed with firearms killed about 3,000 Zulu warriors. As a result, the Zulu agreed to cede land to the white colonists to the south of the Tugela River (now this place is south of Johannesburg and Pretoria itself) and not to bother them any longer (which did not last long). There, the Boer Republic of Natal was founded - the political forerunner of the Transvaal and the Orange state.
Even then, the territory of present-day South Africa was monstrously divided by the way of life, ethnic composition, etc. In the south, Britain ruled the ball in the form of the Cape Colony, to the northeast was Natal and the Zulu lands, a little later the Transvaal and the Orange State arose even further north. And this is not counting several quasi-states, such as Eastern and Western Grikwaland, which were inhabited by the Griqua sub-ethnos - the result of mixed marriages of Boers and Bushmen. By that time, the Grikwas legally considered themselves an indigenous people. Boers have lived in these areas for about 200 years, and Bushmen for thousands of years.
At the same time, one of the main stones in the garden of the Boers, who were thrown both in those days and now, was slavery. The fact took place. The Boers, like all the inhabitants of Africa at that time, used slaves. Slaves were exploited, in fact, and not legally, and the British colonies in Africa, and the Belgian, and even the black Africans themselves loved the exploitation of manpower, especially the conquered tribes. Even in the "ideal" USA, slavery was abolished in 1865, and the last state to ratify this abolition was Mississippi in 2013 …
However, the republic of Natal was unable to gain complete independence from the British. The squeezing out of the Boers by attacks on their way of life, taxes and outright neglect continued. Detachments of white Africans rushed to the northeast. On the lands of the future Republic of Transvaal and the Orange Free State, they unexpectedly for themselves were drawn into the war of the tribes. As it turned out, shortly before the Boers, one of the former military leaders of Chak, Mzilikazi, posed for these lands. This leader led the Ndebele people, who had already waged a long war of all against all, and began to rule no worse than his "boss", grinding all uncontrolled tribes. The remnants of the Venda and Bushmen tribes were forced to flee.
Mzilikazi, naturally, attacked the Boer detachments. On October 16, 1836, the 5,000-strong Ndebele army attacked Andris Potgiter's detachment. To break through the circle of vans, which during the attack were instantly lined up by the efforts of the Boers in the form of a kind of defensive structures, the Ndebeli could not, but they drove away the cattle. The detachment was facing the threat of starvation. And suddenly help came from the leader of the Rolong tribe, who was forced to flee from the warlike Mzilikazi with his despotism. Rolong sent fresh cattle to the detachment with the mischievous idea of spoiling their enemy. As a result, the Boers managed to defeat the troops of Mzilikazi and expel him from these lands.
In view of all the above events, it is impossible in principle to talk about any autochthonousness of the tribes, since the territories to which they were expelled by some tribes, in order to eventually expel other tribes themselves, became home for the peoples. At the same time, attempts to nurture the stereotype of wise aborigines living in unity with nature look like a complete light pink idiocy. Since all "wisdom" consisted in the fact that good is when my tribe drove cattle, and evil is when cattle are driven away from my tribe. However, little has changed.
Soon, as a result of a huge number of political, military and economic (after all, the Boers did not refuse to trade freely with the British, but only wished to preserve their way of life and their rights), the Transvaal (1856-60 years) was created with the capital in Pretoria (in this area previously its own the main camp-settlement - kraal - located Mzilikazi) and the Orange Free State centered in Bloemfontein (1854). However, peace was not to be expected for many years. Against the background of a sluggish war with the Zulu, who, often out of habit and without the knowledge of the supreme rulers, attacked the Boer farms, the First Boer War broke out first (1880-1881), and then the Second (1899-1902).
And this is where Russian volunteers come to the fore. Moreover, these were not isolated desperate adventurers and, as is often the case, simple adventurers. Many of our volunteers were quite successful people, reasonable and at the same time possessing the Russian mentality with its constant search for justice. Indeed, by that time, news had reached the Russian Empire about the practice of using concentration camps and those monstrous methods of waging the British war against the Boers. History will keep the names of Evgeny Maksimov, who will become a "fighter-general" in the Boer army, Fedor and Alexander Guchkov, Evgeny Augustus, Vladimir Semyonov, who later became famous as a prominent architect, author of plans for the restoration of Stalingrad and Sevastopol, and many others.
