Ernst Roets
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And so these things were very complex. We had the same dynamics in South Africa with the Afrikaner people and the English as well, yes. But just to get to that point, it's unfortunate that thinking about history, history tends to overestimate or overemphasize the conflict and downplay the cooperation, because conflict is more newsworthy, you could say.
And so these things were very complex. We had the same dynamics in South Africa with the Afrikaner people and the English as well, yes. But just to get to that point, it's unfortunate that thinking about history, history tends to overestimate or overemphasize the conflict and downplay the cooperation, because conflict is more newsworthy, you could say.
So when we think about history, we think about war and conflict, but we forget the cooperation part that's very important.
So when we think about history, we think about war and conflict, but we forget the cooperation part that's very important.
So when we think about history, we think about war and conflict, but we forget the cooperation part that's very important.
And so that was about the time when the Zulu people were settling in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, and that calls up people in what is the Eastern Cape, closer to where the Afrikaners or the Proto-Afrikaners were.
And so that was about the time when the Zulu people were settling in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, and that calls up people in what is the Eastern Cape, closer to where the Afrikaners or the Proto-Afrikaners were.
And so that was about the time when the Zulu people were settling in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, and that calls up people in what is the Eastern Cape, closer to where the Afrikaners or the Proto-Afrikaners were.
I'm not sure why they haven't done that before, but from what I know, there was conflict up north in Africa and there was nomadic tribes and some groups started- So they were pushed down as a consequence of intertribal warfare in their own lands.
I'm not sure why they haven't done that before, but from what I know, there was conflict up north in Africa and there was nomadic tribes and some groups started- So they were pushed down as a consequence of intertribal warfare in their own lands.
I'm not sure why they haven't done that before, but from what I know, there was conflict up north in Africa and there was nomadic tribes and some groups started- So they were pushed down as a consequence of intertribal warfare in their own lands.
Yes, which is why we have some of the best farmers in South Africa today. So in terms of the history then, One major event was with the Napoleonic Wars. We sometimes joke, as the Afrikaner people, we say we skipped the Enlightenment because we have this joke. We say in Europe, they were reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau while we were hunting elephants.
Yes, which is why we have some of the best farmers in South Africa today. So in terms of the history then, One major event was with the Napoleonic Wars. We sometimes joke, as the Afrikaner people, we say we skipped the Enlightenment because we have this joke. We say in Europe, they were reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau while we were hunting elephants.
Yes, which is why we have some of the best farmers in South Africa today. So in terms of the history then, One major event was with the Napoleonic Wars. We sometimes joke, as the Afrikaner people, we say we skipped the Enlightenment because we have this joke. We say in Europe, they were reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau while we were hunting elephants.
Yeah, but that's important because I think it, in a way, shaped our culture in a particular way, which is why the Afrikaner people at least are much more conservative, much more religious than many of our friends in Europe.
Yeah, but that's important because I think it, in a way, shaped our culture in a particular way, which is why the Afrikaner people at least are much more conservative, much more religious than many of our friends in Europe.
Yeah, but that's important because I think it, in a way, shaped our culture in a particular way, which is why the Afrikaner people at least are much more conservative, much more religious than many of our friends in Europe.
I think they came in before the Europeans came, but they were coming in from the north in the same century, you could say.
I think they came in before the Europeans came, but they were coming in from the north in the same century, you could say.
I think they came in before the Europeans came, but they were coming in from the north in the same century, you could say.