EUROPEAN COUNTRIES INVADED, SETTLED & FINALLY COLONISED THE ENTIRE AFRICAN CONTINENT.
South Africa was among the first territories to be settled, by the Dutch in 1562, unseated shortly after by the British.
Formal colonial rule was, for the most part, imposed in the latter part of the 19th Century, principally by Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany…
To ‘justify’ the scramble for Africa and its wealth, a Platonic Founding Myth had to be found:
“to civilise the barbarian natives of darkest Africa.”
The so-called mission of civilisation was uniformly carried out in the following manner:
1) Seizure and confiscation of all land.
2) Pillaging and theft of all natural assets.
3) Systematic murder, (ethnic cleansing), of dissident tribes – Bushmen & Hottentots.
4) The creation of the Slave Trade.
5) Introduction of Race Laws to suppress and de-humanise.
6) The imposition of Christianity. In name but NOT in practice.
7) Limitation of freedom of movement and education – a.k.a. Apartheid.
8) The pretence that the indigenous population was inferior – unter-mensch.
9) Institutionalisation of a Baas culture, with the superiority of the White man.
10) The lasting impoverishment, to this day, of the entire population of the Continent.
Apologists for Colonialisation argue that Europe brought to Africa: roads, transport, skyscrapers, gold mines … Yes for the white settlers, but NO for the disenfranchised.
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