So here we go again. Another Minister Lamola personal insult aimed at an American leader (this time me) which, when denounced (which Iβm doing now), will result in a demarche with a lecture about being βundiplomatic.β And then the South African government wonders why relations are collapsing.
On this day in 1904, German General Lothar von Trotha issued an extermination order against the Herero and Nama peoples in present-day Namibia. The genocide that followed killed an estimated 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Namaqua, making it the first genocide of the 20th century.