It’s no secret that during the South African apartheid years, it was mostly Britain that kept the status-quo here, of oppression, separation, and discrimination.
The Afrikaners invented it but the English perfected this inhuman abomination. There were, of course, always right from the stone ages, some artificially installed barriers between religions, different classes, castes, race-groups, skin-colours, even language groups in countries all over our world. The Colonial British government and its Commercial Division of The East India Company, for instance, practised this separation as common practice in Bharat, but never as strict policy.
The very same Englanders, somehow, grabbed the idea from the Afrikaner Boers and promulgated it into national policy and strict law. Here in South Africa, but strangely, not in India. When predominantly black political parties in this…
