The South African Boers were certainly a proud people, and rightfully so. Yes, they took on the then mightiest and modern army in the world at the time.....and kicked the [censored] out of them. When you consider that the Boers were not a trained army, they were merely farmers (boers), asking nothing more than to be left alone to get on with their lives, and also considering their numbers of eligible fighting men and boys as opposed to the mighty British army of the time. But the British royalty and international bankers had other ideas and plans for Boer land, they wanted all the land of South Africa for it's immense wealth and were going to take it no matter the cost, the cost in British lives and South African lives. The British lost many good soldiers to the Boers, they thought taking Boer land was going to be a push over......what a shock and slap in the face for them when they actually met these simple determined farmers in battle. When the Brits realised what they were up against, when they realised that back home people were going to start asking too many difficult questions about the length of the war, the body count, the monetary costs, they decided to end the war the only way they knew how......by committing WAR CRIMES against the Boer population as a whole. The British government were ordered to take drastic measures against these people to secure South Africa for their own greed and power. So, the occupying army in South Africa proceeded to rape, pillage, burn down farms, kill all livestock (their infamous scorched earth policy), and as a last vile strike, imprison thousands upon thousands of Boer women, children, their old folk and even black farm labourers of the Boers in concentration camps to starve, be inhumanely treated and just left to rot away. Being the true men they were, the Boer fighters capitulated and finally surrendered at Vereeniging on the banks of the Vaal river in the Transvaal. How many unsuspecting Brits back home knew of this crime, how many today know of this truth or even want to know? Very few indeed!
The British are just as guilty as others they have condemned for abuse against people during war. They sided with the Arabs against the Jews in 1948.....for oil, greed and power once again. It would be difficult to name a country that Britain has not interfered with or been to war with in the last 150 years. But the Boers are a forgiving people. After what the British did to them as a people, many of them fought for Britain in two world wars. One of the finest fighter pilots in world war II was a white South African Boer by the name of Malan....."Sailor Malan" he was called, and if research is done, you will find he had the most kills in the Battle of Britain, but is this war hero recognized today or was he recognised in the past......no, because he was a white Afrikaans speaking South African! Rommel once said..........give me a few battalions of South African soldiers and I will secure North Africa. The British army are way over rated today, they have become a force of politically correct "yes sir no sir" drones. They are taught to fight their enemy to win their hearts and minds, not the war! If the British army were to have engaged the South African army in 1990 on South African soil, a lot more of them would have paid the ultimate price than they did during the nineteenth century slaughter they are so proud of against the Boer people of South Africa.