No need to apologise The Boer War of 100 years ago was good for all Africans, says Jan Morris

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 10, 1999| Author: Jan Morris | Copyright information

THE BOER WAR - sorry, the Anglo-Boer War - started 100 years ago this year. It seems like only yesterday, and to Mr Blair in South Africa last week it may well have seemed more recent still, because Afrikaners were asking him to apologise for it, and they are just as pertinacious today as their great-grandfathers were in 1899. All these historical apologies, so fashionable now, seem to me fatuous - your modern American is no more responsible for the Massacre at Wounded Knee than I am for Amri...

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