Abu Juwairiya
Junior Member
The excerpt below is a reference to why both White and Black people in South Africa in general despised British governments.
The writer, the late Charlie Richardson, the notorious gang member and last of the old school of serious career criminals who also knew the Krays Twins [who also feared him and his brother], spent several years in the country 'wheeling and dealing' and working with major South African criminals. He had the opportunity to study the people, the culture and the traditional values and then made the observations below-
“A lot of animosity could be traced back to the Boer War, when the British ‘scorched earth’ policy led to the burning of all Boer farms.
More than twenty-seven thousand Boers and fourteen thousand black Africans died in those camps.
Thousands of Boers were moved out of South Africa. Even the remote island of St Helena had to take more than its share; thousands of Boers were shipped there.
The death toll among children was horrific.” (Source: ‘The Last Gangster’ (Autobiography) by Charlie Richardson, P 239, 2014)
The writer, the late Charlie Richardson, the notorious gang member and last of the old school of serious career criminals who also knew the Krays Twins [who also feared him and his brother], spent several years in the country 'wheeling and dealing' and working with major South African criminals. He had the opportunity to study the people, the culture and the traditional values and then made the observations below-
“A lot of animosity could be traced back to the Boer War, when the British ‘scorched earth’ policy led to the burning of all Boer farms.
More than twenty-seven thousand Boers and fourteen thousand black Africans died in those camps.
Thousands of Boers were moved out of South Africa. Even the remote island of St Helena had to take more than its share; thousands of Boers were shipped there.
The death toll among children was horrific.” (Source: ‘The Last Gangster’ (Autobiography) by Charlie Richardson, P 239, 2014)