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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...
...toast to the Prince's health and prosperity was drunk and followed by Boer and British cheers, and the singing of God Save the Prince of Wales...
...Prince stood up. Complete silence. Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums. "Meneer die Speaker," began the Prince in Boer Dutch. He got no further for some minutes. The Boer "rebels" let out one roar : Ous Prins! (Our Prince) and secession of South Africa from the British Commonwealth lay, apparently shattered, on the floor. Cheers, table banging, clapping, Boer and British songs finally over, the Prince continued, still speaking Dutch...
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...