[CourtneyLeigh]

To claim that Africa is a "black" continent is also nonsense. Most of northern Africa's peoples are Semites who, until recent times, were considered Caucasian.

Are you saying that the former inhabitants of South Africa were also Semites?
I do realize that not all of Africa is of a dark skinned nature, and I also believe there's no difference between us and them because of our skin.

So was South Africa predominantly English origin even back in the 1600's. Was this uninhabited land, just like the 13 colonies?
Or was this lightly inhabited land, like the Islands Columbus discovered, and later other explorers took over.

[John H K]

South Africa was lightly inhabited, as mentioned, by Bushmen (San) and Hottentots. If you've ever seen the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy", the star was San.

They'd been there for hundreds of thousands of years, and in fact the San may well be the original human population from which all others developed. They're somewhat dark-skinned but not very dark, and their facial features are "in between" all the other races.


At roughly the same time, in the 1600s, Dutch settlers turned up in the South, and (very Dark-skinned) Bantu Black Africans, who had been expanding in Africa, turned up in the North. Between them they wiped out the Hottentots over time and reduced the Bushmen population, then they ran into each other and began fighting.

Genetically the Bantu Blacks are barely more closely related to the San, really, than Whites are. This is true of much of Africa; Swedes and Greeks are much more closely related to each other genetically than one black tribe in Africa is genetically related to the tribe just down the road.

[Cronos]

Was this uninhabited land, just like the 13 colonies?

Nope, this wAS NOT uninhabited land. So, all of us European, Asian, African -Americans shoudl get OUT. </sarcasm