In South Africa the British and Afrikaners came to blows in two Anglo-Boer Wars. These foreigners invaded Africa and killed each other over the wealth that belonged to Africans. The Afrikaners and the British became bitterest of enemies. Their enmity endures and is palpable to the present-day, over their fight for the land and minerals of Southern Africa.

The Afrikaners in the last Anglo-Boer War of 1898 – 1902,  lost the war but won the peace. The British won the war but lost the peace. The Africans lost both the war and the peace.

The British defeated the Afrikaners. But in an effort to reconcile with them, the British sold out completely to the demands of the Afrikaners.

The pathetic liturgy of British behaviour, based solely on racism, included allowing the losers, the Boers, to introduce Apartheid. This was a painful lesson to the Africans, as between 20,000 to 30,000 fought on the side of the British.  Many were killed. This was not to be the last time Britain shafted Africans. Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya and Southern Rhodesia were soon to follow.

The pathetic liturgy of British behaviour included the following:

The Afrikaners said Africans were not fully human and so they did not want to live in the same areas with them. So the races had separate residential areas. The Afrikaners did not believe in mixing their genes with Africans. So miscegenation was criminalised. The Afrikaners did not want to travel with them Africans in the same trains and buses and breathe the same air as them in those confined spaces. So, public transport had Net Blankes or Whites Only facilities, and so on. So segregation became a religion to the Afrikaners. Evidently, the American practitioners of Jim Crow laws had spawned an equally evil twin.

To all these laws and regulations, the British said okay to the Afrikaners and hard luck to the Africans. Hence the introduction of apartheid in 1948.

This was a painful lesson to the Africans, as between 20,000 to 30,000 fought on the side of the British. During this war, the British introduced concentration camps for both Afrikaners and Africans. 26,000 Afrikaners, mostly women and

children, died in these camps and at least 16,000 Africans also died there. A total of over 36,000 Africans died in this war. This first use of concentration camps was principally the work of a gent called Lord Kitchener, a hero to many Brits.