Dr. Conan Doyle se beskrywing van die Boer, “Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home…….. ” is ‘n beskrywing wat vreeslik graag aangehaal word deur mense wat die krag of mag van die Boer as kryger wil aantoon, maar ongelukkig maak hulle ‘n ernstige fout aangaande die Identiteit van die Boervolk.
Hierdie twak en snert van Doyle is totaal onwaar. Dit is ‘n leuen gekweek doer in die Kaap tussen Brit en Cape-Dutch (Afrikaner) om die leuen te verkondig dat die Boer van Nederlander en Fransman kom. Daar was 1,000 Nederlandse en 300 Franse immigrante en niemand lees die syfer van 6,500 Duitse immigrante in al die boek raak nie, so asof die leser in ‘n trans verkeer. Dit is gedruk in die boeke maar die lesers sien dit nie, omdat hy reeds anders vertel is in skool en kerk.
With a great flourish, of trumpets there has lately been issued, through two of the leading London publishing houses, what claims to be a statement of the British “case ” in regard to the South African War, from the pen of the creator of ” Sherlock Holmes”. (Conan Doyle)
In these and many other quarters there is at least solid evidence to set over against Dr. Doyle’s unsupported statement that the Boers “have stood for all that history has shown to be odious in the form of exclusiveness and oppression.” This sort of vague abuse will not convince anyone, least of all the Continental readers for whom Dr. Doyle’s pamphlet was chiefly written, at this time of day.
It smacks too much of the lying telegram about the women and children being in danger, foisted upon the British public on the eve of the Jameson Raid by the friends of the Johannesburg plotters.
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