Kallie Kriel‚ CEO of AfriForum‚ says that apartheid was not a crime against humanity because crimes against humanity require millions of people to be killed.
People are angry with Kallie‚ but I must say that he has helped me to change my view on another piece of South African history: the Anglo-Boer War.
I believe that a proper war is one in which many millions of people die‚ but it turns out that only 75‚000 people died in the Anglo-Boer War. I mean‚ that’s not even a minor battle in World War 1.
So was it really a war? Kallie has convinced me that it wasn’t. He’s helped me understand that the so-called Anglo-Boer “war” was really little more than a small skirmish‚ a minor scuffle‚ if you will‚ and certainly not worth memorialising.
https://select.timeslive.co.za/ideas/2018-05-16-what-kallie-taught-me-the-boer-war-was-just-a-kerfuffle/
What Kallie taught me: the Boer War was just a kerfuffle
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Kallie Kriel‚ CEO of AfriForum‚ says that apartheid was not a crime against humanity because crimes against humanity require millions of people to be killed.
People are angry with Kallie‚ but I must say that he has helped me to change my view on another piece of South African history: the Anglo-Boer War.
I believe that a proper war is one in which many millions of people die‚ but it turns out that only 75‚000 people died in the Anglo-Boer War. I mean‚ that’s not even a minor battle in World War 1.
So was it really a war? Kallie has convinced me that it wasn’t. He’s helped me understand that the so-called Anglo-Boer “war” was really little more than a small skirmish‚ a minor scuffle‚ if you will‚ and certainly not worth memorialising.
https://select.timeslive.co.za/ideas/2018-05-16-what-kallie-taught-me-the-boer-war-was-just-a-kerfuffle/
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