PART XVI: Anglo-Boer War II

Unfortunately, shortly after the peace started, gold and diamonds were found in the Republic of the Transvaal and other areas belonging to us. The English wanted it and tried to wrestle it out of our hands in 1861. We successfully beat them down. This later was called the first Anglo-Boer war. So they tried a different route by bringing in massive amounts of immigrants from Europe, Zululand, the Xhosa home world and other Bantu tribes more North of where our Republics were.

Similar to what is being done to the USA and Europe now. These migrants came from outside of our Republics. They did not live IN the republics, but on the East and Northern parts of what is now known collectively as South Africa and Southern Africa. As well as Englishmen from the UK and other Europeans. So they were never "locals" or "inhabitants" or citizens. Only the men were brought in, as miners for English mining bosses and companies.

My people's governments complained about all the illegal immigrants, but the English declared us awful people for not giving these people houses, voting rights, food and allowing their "cultural practices" which severely clashed with our Christian laws and culture.

It was an untenable situation that quickly grew severe. We were overwhelmed with the sheer numbers brought in. It was an invasion. And we knew, it's either fight or loose everything we had. We thus declared war against England and the Anglo-Boere War II started in 1899. We were only about half a million Boere (men, women, children, elderly all included) in the Transvaal, and less in the Vrystaat, and thus our actually fighting army were extremely small, taking on the mighty Imperial British Army. I think in total together with the Orange Free State's men and some volunteers over the world who saw this as unrighteous behavior of the British, totaled about 50 000.

Against about 500 000 British soldiers.

We fought a good fight. The English were astounded and had to bring in more and more weapons and horses from the UK, and soldiers from Australia. The war which they thought would be quick, turned out ferocious and long and costing them millions. 

Thus the English devised a wicked plan. Called the Scorched Earth Policy. Their soldiers went and burnt all the farms and farmhouses of the fighting Boer soldiers. They killed all the cattle and farm animals, and put the farm workers, and the Boer wives and children and grandparents on trains, with guns to their heads, and took them to camps "for their own good". Apparently for their safety.

The rest of the world was told that the Boere “neglegted” their wives and children and left them to “fend for themselves in the wild”. The truth was that the Wives and children and elderly successfully farmed the farms, providing the Boere soldiers with the necessary provisions. The English realised if they could cut off this provision, stop the food production, the Boere would not be able to continue the war. They wanted to starve the Boere soldiers, by burning their farms.

But they did not want the world to realise what they were doing, so they said they're taking the women and children to camps for their safety. The women and children were perfectly safe on their own farms, in their own houses. 

In the camps, they died like flies. The British didn't plan it well. The camps were quickly overpopulated about 5x more than the amount it were supposed to house. They put 15-20 people in a 5-man tent. There was a severe lack of clean water, medicines and doctors, and the Boer women severely distrusted the English soldiers and doctors. Diseases broke out and that coupled with starvation claimed thousands of children's lives.

In the end, about 30% of the Transvaal's children under the age of 5 died at the hands of these British soldiers who kept them in the camps in inhumane conditions, and guarded them with soldiers and guns from fleeing to family in the Cape.

Those whose husbands gave up fighting, were getting normal rations (which were already not enough to survive on). Those whose husbands refused to give up, were given half of a ration per day. Even the children of these fighting Boere got half a ration.

To this day, many of the British people have no idea what their men, soldiers and authorities did to us, here. And that the war was never about the “uprising of one of their colonies”. But THEM invading 2 sovereign countries through illegal immigrants and thereafter with their soldiers, to get their hands on the riches of those 2 countries. Which they successfully then did from 1902.

Our Boere tried, but moral was lost with their babies dying by the thousands. They received letter upon letter of one after another child dying. The women had to watch how hundreds upon hundreds of babies and toddlers were fetched DAILY from their tents via English wagons, who threw the bodies unceremoniously on it. Many women couldn't even get to the gravesites in time before their babies were dumped into the ground. Some were too ill and starved to run fast enough. Some women lost all their children. Every one of them.

This broke the men. They laid down their weapons in 1902 and handed their two countries over to the British, who promptly took ALL republics from ALL the other peoples as well, even the Xhosas, the Zulu's, and all other Bantu and Khoisan tribes, and threw it all into one huge hotchpot and called it the Union of South Africa. They claimed the whole of the Southern Africa for themselves. Over which the Crown then presided. 

None of us here wanted it. We never wanted to be part of the British Empire. We were never “under the crown” until that day they killed our babies and stole our countries from us. We were never one country, they forced it on the Afrikaners and Boere, on the Xhosas and Zulu's, on the Pedi's and Tswanas, etc. No tribe had a say in it. The English just annexed the whole Southern tip of Africa and declared it their's and called it the Union under their King in the UK. 

Today people would frown about it. Apparently it was still “ok” in 1902. Though they had to tell the world many lies to slide it past them. Like how they “helped” the “poor womenfolk on the farms from starvation”. How they "helped" the Bantu tribes who were "badly treated by the Boere". (By throwing them into camps even worse than those the Boere women had!) How the area was already "just some colonies of the English" in any case, instead of the truth. That it were several separate sovereign countries NOT in the British "sphere of influence" at that point. They wanted the gold, diamonds and other precious metals and minerals, and they got it.

We lost our freedom, our national pride, our towns, our countries. We were now all English Crown Subjects under the King's rule. The world looked on in disinterest. Ignoring our plight and the unfairness of it all and the atrocities the English committed. America included. Our mother countries, Germany, Netherlands and France too. Nobody cared. Not about us, nor about the Bantu tribes or the KhoiSan, all suffering in this new "union". Nobody gave a damn about thousands of babies dying at the hands of English Soldiers, or took the British to task for their vile acts. Or forced them to give our Republics back. Nor our minerals or gold or diamonds. To this day our biggest diamond, the Cullinan diamond, sits in one of the crowns of the Queen. To this day they have never said a single word of apology to us for what they did to us. Or acknowledge how utterly despicable their behaviour was. 

Next, I'll discuss what followed. The folly and reasons behind what the world called Apartheid.