"I'm sure as that day comes I will go and knock at the door of heaven and I know what they will say, they will look at their list and say: 'Your name is not there, can you try next door?' "I won't go next door because if I went there I know what will happen to me, I will burn for the rest of eternity. I will look for a branch of the African National Congress in that world and join it."
Nelson MandelaRecipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize.
"Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation”
Nadine Gordimer, Knighted, Nobel Prize winner.
"I hate the Afrikaner. I hate his ways, his language and of course his politics"
Nadine Gordimer, Knighted, Nobel Prize winner.
The Americans fight for a free world.
The English mostly for honor glory and medals.
The French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate.
The Italians are too scared to fight.
The Russians have no choice.
The Germans for the Fatherland.
The Boers?
Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it!
Amerikaanse Generaal, George "Guts and Glory" Patton
Give me 20 divisions American soldiers and I will beach Europe.
Give me 15 consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of Berlin.
Give me two divisions of those marvelous fighting Boers and I will remove Germany from the face of the earth.
Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery (Commander Allied forces WWII)
"Take a community of Dutchman of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world.
Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth.
Take these formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is immanently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider.
Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism.
Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual and you have the modern Boer."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Their adventures and exploits form one of the most singular chapters of modern history, and deserve a clearer record than has yet been given to them."
English historian James Anthony Froude on the Voortrekkers.
