e were contradictions, as De Groot pointed out in a report to the council: I cannot understand it. He himself, when he heard of his impending selectio wanted to avoid it, judging himself to be inadequa He had learned to like the Englishman and told him s( openly, but he also felt that the time had come for the educatior of Boer boys . Critics accuse us of being nigger-lovers-kaffir boeties, the Boers call us-and when one of our own
'I often wonder what might have happened if he'd stayed in Durban. And then, because the rules were mindful of London-based magnates with vast holdings in the West Indies, it was stipulat and find him, though he be not far from every one of us. Piet Krause stood enthralled as Hitler unfolded his plan for regeneration, and each word he said applied to conditions in South Africa, so far as Piet was concerned.
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