MODERN BOERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 379, 30 April 1908, Page 4

MODERN BOERS.

The ascendancy of the “conquered ’’ Boers in the Transvaal is thus described by a journalist from Auckland, now in Johannesburg : “The Dutch are in the saddle now, and if you want another war say the word and I’ll arrange it. Perhaps you know that the question of the use of ‘ taal ’ (a bastard Dutch language (is agitating us much here now. As most things worth having are in the hands of the Dutch, and there is every evidence of still more good things going the same way, it is only a question of time before the man who dares to speak English here will seriously offend the proprietors. Our mining editor who is a New Zealander, clears out this week because he’s not going to work on a paper that will shortly be published halt in taal and halt in Hindustani. The Dutchmen are making things very sultry indeed for the dark gentlemen of Asia. The rule being mainly Dutch, the native isn’t very troublesome. A Dutchman never allows a Kaffir to be insolent, and I must say this is refreshing. The British idea of race equality was making the Rand nigger an intolerable person from whom no one was safe, but the sjambok rules once more.”