this. the first blacks weren't seen anywhere near capetown for almost 200 years after the boers' arrival, and even then they were just nomadic tribes who occasionally came through.
most of africa had barely figured out the basics of buoyancy for canoes, and the only ones who had sailboats were somali pirates who got the technology from europeans and arabs in the red sea.
still to this day, blacks in south africa overwhelmingly don't understand 1500s era settlement technology like farming basics, plumbing, or any other infrastructure. it's why every time an african country seizes farms not owned by blacks, the country fucking starves. when the ANC seized control over utilities and telecoms in south africa, they ran the reservoir down to <10%. you could turn your faucet on and get silt in the water because they had no fucking clue what they're doing.
Yeah - the negroes are only native to Eastern South Africa. They arrived about the same time as the Boers did in the Western cape. Later on when the Boers (vootrekers) and the British expanded their influence in Southern Africa did they encounter the Bantu and even then most of them were migratory people because the soils are to marginal for their kind of agriculture. The concept of "owning" land would not have made any sense to them. Only later on with the expansion of British power were gold and diamonds discovered.
most of africa had barely figured out the basics of buoyancy for canoes, and the only ones who had sailboats were somali pirates who got the technology from europeans and arabs in the red sea.
still to this day, blacks in south africa overwhelmingly don't understand 1500s era settlement technology like farming basics, plumbing, or any other infrastructure. it's why every time an african country seizes farms not owned by blacks, the country fucking starves. when the ANC seized control over utilities and telecoms in south africa, they ran the reservoir down to <10%. you could turn your faucet on and get silt in the water because they had no fucking clue what they're doing.
They befriended da jooz."