Supremacy Founded on Pioneers, Might of Industries, Skin Color Privileges - To understand the psychology of white supremacy in South Africa, take in the monument outside Pretoria, fly over Johannesburg on a clear day and pick up a penniless, hard-luck white man hitching a ride on a quiet road. The monument, in honor of the Vortrekkers, lies heavily on the highlands overlooking Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. It is an immense and ugly mausoleum with a cenotaph inside, a slab of South African granite that serves as the symbolic tomb of the leaders of the Vortrekkers. The Vortrekkers - the Afrikaans word for pioneers - were the 10,000 Dutch-speaking settlers who trekked north from the Cape of Africa in the 1830s and 1840s to try to escape British rule and found a land of their own. Their "great trek," as every Afrikaner school boy calls it, opened most of what is now South Africa to white settlement. The Dutch-descended Afrikaners, who rule South Africa, look on the great trek as a stirring and decisive moment in Afrikaner nationalism...

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