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africanhope;96358]Well, I can only repeat - yes, there will be red coats in the museum, because they wore it in the first war. They learned from their mistake, and wore kaki in the second one.
On the concentration camps, which is what I think you are reffering to, in which 128 000 women and children died (and considering how few Afrikaners there were at that time, this is close to genocide), the ground glass thing is quite widely proven, also by English sources, so it is not a rumour, but relativly well proven fact.
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OK we were told at school that it was Epsom salts, but I bow to your superior knowledge. I dropped History as a major and went for Ancient History because it concentrated too much on South Africa, which I had lived and knew enough about to write my own thesis.
That was a terrible time to be a rebellious English-speaking anti-religious woman. I remember having an enormous row with a civil servant who came to my house to check my maid's pass book which was in order. He spotted her kids sitting at the table with mine in the kitchen and threatened to have us both arrested for allowing the races to mix but officially for having the kids there. When I said that she was still breastfeeding he told me she had to go to the homelands to do that then and I would have to employ someone else, so I thre him out and told him he was a Nazi. He said that Hitler had a good idea about the Jews which you can imagine really pissed me off. I was a very angry 'k....r-boetie' that day, my family were terrified that I would be arrested but he probably told them to leave me alone, i was too scary to be messed with. probably thought I would start a war with a legion of impis or something.
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