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VickieLol64 t1_j2omc76 wrote

Which was taken? Unpaid? Put on Queena crown and UK still claims It is theirs

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Loki1time t1_j2pbn22 wrote

2 years it was up for sale. Finally the Transvaal regional government purchased it and gifted it to King Edward VII. It cost £16m (adjusted for 2019 rates) with 60% being a tax which went straight back in to the regional government coffers (so £7.6m purchase price).

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VickieLol64 t1_j2tck1b wrote

Jep. Who are the original owners of The Land. It was not theirs to give. It should be returned.

Apartheid at its highest. Then what an insult with Katie's last Jewellery boosting infront of the SA Prime Minister. Shameless

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Loki1time t1_j2tg4az wrote

Talk to the Dutch about that. This is a rather interesting passage though ;

At the time of first European settlement in the Cape, the southwest of Africa was inhabited by Sān ("Foragers") and Khoi-Khoi people, the latter being primarily pastoral people with a population estimated between 13,000 and 15,000.[4] The Khoena ("People") were disgruntled by the disruption of their seasonal visit to the area for which purpose they grazed their cattle at the foot of Table Mountain only to find European settlers occupying and farming the land, leading to the first Khoi-Dutch War as part of a series of Khoekhoe-Dutch Wars. After the war, the natives ceded the land to the settlers in 1660. During a visit in 1672, the high-ranking Commissioner Arnout van Overbeke made a formal purchase of the Cape territory, although already ceded in 1660, his reason was to "prevent future disputes"

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