The Boer Wars: The South African Conflict That Created Winston Churchill and (Possibly) Concentration Camps

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🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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South Africa, despite abolishing apartheid in the 1990s, still stays very fraught with racial tension, making the United States' experience of 2020 pale in comparison. A series of settlements and wars from over a hundred years ago and over hundreds of...

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0:57.3	One of the most common myths about both these Boer Wars is, oh, the British just wanted
1:06.0	all the gold.
1:07.0	They just wanted all the diamonds and that is just wrong.
1:10.6	Because the British were fighting for control either in a conciliatory manner or militarily
1:17.1	for decades before even diamonds were discovered in South Africa.
1:21.1	What the British wanted is they wanted a confederation that looked a little bit like
1:26.0	what they had in Canada.
1:28.6	The British wanted to have a monopoly on ports that led their route to India.
1:33.6	So for decades and decades, the British tried to keep some kind of soft control or influence
1:39.2	over the area just to make sure that nothing could disrupt their trade with India.
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