NP? following the Herero towards extinction?

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/international/africa/07AFRI.html

"We, the Afrikaner people, opened up this country,
developed this country, put this country in the front
ranks of the developed countries of the world," he
said. "And it is now on the rim of becoming a typical
banana republic. Black Africa is wiping out everything
we have brought. We would like to bring it up to a
civilized level."

"We voted against this new South Africa," Mr. van den
Berg said, his gray eyes glinting as he made his point
clear.

"But we lost," Jaap Diedericks, the station manager,
pointed out.  [...] "We feel a bit useless, a little
hopeless, a little washed up," Mr. Diedericks
admitted. "We are maybe three million people up
against 40 million of all sorts of people. We've got
to stand fast or we'll just be absorbed and vanish as
an identity." [...]

On Radio Pretoria, young people are urged to reproduce
so that the community can increase its numbers and its
political clout.

"Our natural growth will have to improve, you know
that?" a commentator told a group of young people
recently. "There can only be growth in the numbers of
the people if we have four children per household."
[...] 

"We all believe we're going to get some form of
self-determination so we can keep our identity," Mr.
Diedericks said. "If we're not forced to marry blacks
and we're not forced overseas, it will happen."



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