Quote of the week

Regarding forced removals in in the 1770s.

"Neither Sparrman nor anyone else of the time thought for a moment of the grievous wrong which had been done by the land robbers who had seized upon all their hunting grounds, surrounding the mountains of their ancestors, the ancient men who had adorned their numerous cave dwellings with innumerable paintings showing the history and hunting achievements of their race for unknown generations. The hundreds of whom he speaks had been most unceremoniously dispossessed of their country, and all their mountain streams had been appropriated to gratify the territorial greed of a few score men, who called themselves civilized because they had guns in their hands"

Stow, G.W., 1905. The native races of South Africa; a history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the aborigines of the country, S. Sonnenschein & Co.; Macmillan Co., London; New York. p. 165