Once the whites leave it will return to the jungle, etc. The indigenous cultures could not make anything of this area and it will return to what they were making of it before the Europeans arrived.
Exactly.
But you see there were almost no blacks in the far south of South Africa. That bit of history has been erased.
Which is exactly what Environmentalist would love! Eliminating ‘civilization’ would save the earth.
Original attempts to “colonize” the area started in 1424 by The Portuguese. The Dutch were much more successful at “colonization” starting from about 1600. And of course the British tool control in 1807. The Dutch population which had been inhabiting the area for the previous approximately 200 years has some difficulty accepting British rule which resulted in unrest, wars and horrific atrocities.
South Africa's immigration policies are completely responsible for its current demise. Our perception of South Africa is largely a result of slanted and misleading media reporting going back literally over 100 years. Even now approximately 60% of the remaining white population are descendants of the Dutch and speak “Afrikaan” a derivative of the Dutch language that evolved during the preceding 400 years.
In 1806 when British rule became permanent. 50% of the white population were Dutch, 27% were German, 17% were French, and 5% were Scandinavian. By that time there were very few indigenous people left and the black population was much less than the white population. For mostly economic reasons large numbers of black people immigrated to the colony and the reproduction rate of these new arrivals out produced the European population. Until by 1960 the country had become over 80% black.
So we do have an example of what happens when a prosperous country let's itself be taken over by what can only be described as runaway immigration. Even while the UN and much of the rest of the world was condemning South Africa for its “apartheid” policies, people from Africa and Asia continued to vote with their feet by immigrating to South Africa. It is easy to see now how the inevitable result was that the original European inhabitants are currently being either driven from the country or becoming victims of genocide. Apartheid can now be viewed as a last ditch unsuccessful effort to save themselves.