FRANK WELSH

The Dutch Reformed Church had begun that process of adapting theology to suit the interests of its members, which was to culminate in its blessing apartheid, by discouraging conversions which would bring the obligation of receiving non—Europeans as full members of the community.

The defense…that the United Nations could not interfere with any member’s domestic concerns was a sentiment with which all UN members concurred, all having something to hide.

Alcohol remained, and remains, a vital instrument of social control, used without any regard to its horrifying consequences in addiction and violence.

Societies faced with bewildering changes, and feeling old certainties threatened, are open to new cults.

To a considerable extent the Boer War resembled the American Civil War thirty—five years previously. One side was upholding the traditional values of its communities, including the denial of political rights to non—whites, which were subsumed into a struggle for independence against superior power, more modern both in technology and ideology.

The settlement of what is now South Africa was a joint enterprise, but one in which the blacks had precedence over the whites; and there seems to be no logical reason why intruders coming by sea should be any more blameworthy than those arriving by land. The persecuted Bushmen did not distinguish between their black and white oppressors.

The defense…that the United Nations could not interfere with any member’s domestic concerns was a sentiment with which all UN members concurred, all having something to hide.

To a considerable extent the Boer War resembled the American Civil War thirty—five years previously. One side was upholding the traditional values of its communities, including the denial of political rights to non—whites, which were subsumed into a struggle for independence against superior power, more modern both in technology and ideology.

Societies faced with bewildering changes, and feeling old certainties threatened, are open to new cults.

The settlement of what is now South Africa was a joint enterprise, but one in which the blacks had precedence over the whites; and there seems to be no logical reason why intruders coming by sea should be any more blameworthy than those arriving by land. The persecuted Bushmen did not distinguish between their black and white oppressors.

The Dutch Reformed Church had begun that process of adapting theology to suit the interests of its members, which was to culminate in its blessing apartheid, by discouraging conversions which would bring the obligation of receiving non—Europeans as full members of the community.

Alcohol remained, and remains, a vital instrument of social control, used without any regard to its horrifying consequences in addiction and violence.