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Article: Marching on Pretoria. (South Africa's relationship with Great Britain)
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- National Review
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- September 12, 1986
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MARCHING ON PRETORIA
SOUTH AFRICA's relationship with Britain is closer and more paradoxical than her relationship with any other country, the Afrikaners' Dutch and Huguenot roots having long been severed. The modern republic was born out of conflict with Britain; a conflict that Britain won--and in which British (and American) liberals were as passionately pro-Boer as a later generation was pro-Vietcong. Nowadays, the English-language press in South Africa is so hostile to the Afrikaner government, and so left-wing, that the modern Boers find it almost treasonable. The gulf--social, political, and cultural--between English-speaking South Africans and Afrikaners ...