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...most influential people in this century were surely the inventors of the computer; it has forever changed the world as we know it. RAY HATTINGH Howard Place, South Africa...
...rattles were caused by Professor Johan Leon Hattingh, director of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of the Western Cape and an Afrikaner himself. In an article published in his institute's journal, he claimed that many of the original Dutch settlers had dalliances with black women and that as a result, few Afrikaners could claim to be of unmixed white descent. Rather than charting white South Africa's family tree through the male line, Hattingh chose five early 18th century native women and traced their descendants. What he uncovered were some rather surprising branches. Among...
Reaction to Hattingh's genealogical bombshell ranged from outraged denials to bemusement. Fumed Louis Stofberg, general secretary of the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party: "I'd like to see the bastard who can find a drop of colored blood in my family!" Albert Tertius Myburgh, Afrikaner editor of the national Sunday Times, took a positive view, describing the "swelling of African pride" he felt at the racial revelation...
...When a black Johannesburg gardener asked a white what he thought about the alleged black blood in his background, the Afrikaner promptly replied, "That's all right, as long as it was the best blood, Zulu blood." But Cape Colored Poet Adam Small offered the last word on Hattingh's research: "It's nothing new. Colored, white or black, all blood...
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