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Originally Posted by Plethon

As regards Afrikaners, I sympathize them to a certain extent.

There are not very many Afrikaner-speaking people in Kwa-Zulu Natal. It is a Zulu and English-speaking province.

This is more serious:

However, the ANC, rather foolishly, decided to wipe out names associated with Chief Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party, even renaming the local stadium being built for the 2010 soccer World Cup after a local Communist leader, when it had been named after the father of King Shaka, founder of the Zulu nation.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi and his Zulu Inkhata Party are the one nationalist-like party in South Africa. Most bloody clashes used to take place between Inkhata and ANC supporters.

Although I think their leadership failed (if they had one at all). They should have insisted on creating a special Afrikaner homeland and pursued that goal. Maybe it's not late for them to separate and the South Africa to become o loose confederation of several ethnic homelands: Afrikaners, Zulu, Xhosa...

Their leadership was scum from the start. The architect of Apartheid, Hendriek Verwoerd, was the son of a Dutch Calvinist preacher. Chosen People's mentality was served from the origins. There was no shortage of Jews, some as significant as JBM Herzog, leader of the NP and PM of the Union of SA. Not to speak that President Paul Kruger even attended the official opening of the Johannesburg Synagogue in the late 19th century.

The sparks of anti-semitism were only noticed when in the mid-30s German Jewish refugees started to flow in the country, and two God's Chosen People saw themselves competing for the same Promised Land.