r/Documentaries • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '18

South Africa - A Reversed Apartheid? (2018) - A documentary shining light on the white boer minority's current situation living in SA. Crowdfunded and made by a swedish political science major from the The Swedish Defence University.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDU0xIILKA
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u/Comnena Mar 18 '18

If you know something the anthropological community doesn't about how various indigenous African societies have not in fact lived in the South Africa region for thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans then I don't know why you're announcing it here on Reddit, you should be preparing your paper for academic journals quick smart!

Or, if what you are implying is that the Boer and British colonisation of South Africa is exempt from the moral issues associated with colonialism because the people who lived in the South African geographical region at various points throughout history have changed due to internal migrations and power struggles, and therefore the migration of European settlers is in some way equivalent to these internal social changes and the people who lived their prior have no claim to their land or an expectation of being treated as anything other than one more set of interlopers able to be forced out by the next bunch of people who come along, then I think we both know that is not true.

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u/Th3cz Mar 18 '18

It seems like you are not aware of the fact that the blacks living in and running SA today isn't the original people of those lands. Learn some history mate. The blacks there today came from tribes from the north in the 1600s at the same time as the Boer came and looked to settle unoccupied lands which they did from the south. Then they met each other at a river

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

I don't think Boers went to SA 25,000 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

Sp original just means whenever they got there.