Zuid-Afrika na de apartheid en de ongemakkelijke waarheid voor Nederland

In all former colonial powers, there is a growing awareness that the colonial past was especially violent and criminal, including in the Netherlands. When the Dutch media talk about the colonial past, it mostly concerns Indonesia and Suriname. Thereby, the role of the Netherlands in South Africa is forgotten, while the VOC colonised and governed a not insignificant part of the country for over a century and a half from the landing of Jan van Riebeeck in 1652. After England took over the Dutch colony in South Africa (1806), Dutch interest in South Africa faded, only to revive during the Boer Wa... Mehr ...