side ...
is in the very worst interests of the natives themselves....
I antici-
pate that, as one of the incidental advantages which the Union of South
Africa is going to bring about, it will prove to be a harbinger of a native
policy ...
more enlightened than that which has been pursued by some
communities in the past."64
On May 3 I, 1910, eight years to the day since he had lain down his arms
as a leader of the military forces of the Afrikaner republics, Louis Botha
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