Word: boer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drove through the city, flags were waved, flowers thrown, white, black and yellow people cheered in a strange assortment of languages; children sang. Many were in the crowd who had traveled hundreds of miles to be present at the Prince's arrival and many of these were the Boer veldt farmers,, some even hailing from the Orange Free State, that alleged home of South African republicanism...
...fourth day of his stay in Cape Town, the Union's Parliament invited him to dinner. Present at that dinner were some of the more curious of the true Boer diehards, whose republican sentiments had often resounded in both houses of the Legislature...
...present, however, more in the foreground than either of these gentlemen is James Barry Munnik Hertzog who, in June of last year, succeeded General Smuts as Prime Minister of the Dominion. Hertzog fought without distinction as a Boer General against the British in the South African War (1899-1902), but in negotiating the Peace of Vereeniging, he rose to equal prominence with Generals Botha and Smuts, his brother officers. For a decade, he worked with these...
...coming unquestionably has an object of the very highest importance to the country and to any Government, whatever its complexion, that is in power. This object is less a formal visit to the last unvisited Dominion, less a question of London policy, still less an attempt to reconcile Boer and Briton, than a national rally to combat the greatest peril of the white man in South Africa...
That the whites contribute to this condition is evident from the story of a Boer farmer (the Boers consider themselves the aristocrats of the country) and his several sons who ruefully gazed at their crops being choked by weeds. No black labor was obtainable, but it never occurred to the farmer and his sons to do the weeding themselves...