The Nightmare of Middle School Geography Textbooks – Where is the Capital of South Africa?

The answer is: South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria, the administrative capital, Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.

The reason for the emergence of such a strange system that angered junior high school students was the fragmentation and chaos of South Africa at the end of the 19th century, and the subsequent political games and compromises.

Cape Town is an excellent port, which was blackmailed by the British government during the Napoleonic Wars to the Dutch government-in-exile living in Britain.

They expelled the Dutch, who had colonized South Africa for more than 200 years, and gained large tracts of land in the south.

And the expelled Dutch, calling themselves Boers, went into exile north.

They defeated the Zulus who had gone south in the Battle of the Blood River and established the Republic of Natalia.

In 1842, the British, who claimed to be the protectorate of the Emirate of Zulu, demanded that the Boers end their criminal slavery, give equal rights to blacks, and join the free trade system of the British Empire.

This was clearly unacceptable to the Boers.

And at this time, the British, trying to see the dagger, landed in the port of Durban and attacked the Boer republic again.

In this war, the British succeeded in ceding all the coastal territories of the Boers and directly controlled the import and export channels of South Africa.

The capital of the Republic of Natalia was also captured.

Unwilling to accept British rule, the Boers continued to flee north, establishing what is now the Transvaal Republic.

A part of the Boers succumbed to the British and remained north of the Orange River and south of the Waal River, and signed the Bloemfontein Agreement with the government of Cape Town, England, and established the independent Orange Free State.

The capital of the Transvaal Republic was what would later be Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa.

The capital of the Orange Free State is Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.

In the final analysis, South Africa's modern history is the result of a three-way game between the British, Boers, and Zulus, which eventually created three capitals.

But the San people, the real masters of South Africa, have long since disappeared into the long river of history.

And this time, I, Lord Li, am going to be a blue sky, be the master of this Sang people, and by the way, recognize a father named Zheng He,

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Pretoria, the Presidency of the Republic of De Wasland.

Martinus Pretorius was the son of Andreas Pretorius, the founding father of Dewasland, and was known as Pentorius the Younger.

After the death of the elder Preretolius in 1853, the younger Preretolius succeeded his father and continued to sustain the impoverished and difficult country.

Although they were both colonizers, the Boers were much worse mixed than the British.

After all the coastal territories were ceded by the British, the crops and minerals of the Republic of Dewaziland were now sold cheaply to British middlemen.

As a result, Dewasland's fiscal revenues are declining day by day.

Moreover, the Zulus, who had been defeated by Old Biletolius, have grown stronger and stronger in the past two years, constantly harassing the eastern border of De Wasland.

It may be a bit embarrassing to say.

As the threat from these spear-black men grew, a significant part of the Boers were considering accepting British rule and protection.

Naturally, little Biletolius was strongly opposed to this.

For a long time, he worked hard to fulfill his father's last wish to unite all the Boers and reunite Dewasland and Orange.

But with the obstruction of the British, and the opposition of interests within the Boers, the realization of this goal seemed elusive.

Despite this, Tetratorius Jr. did not give up his intelligence spying on Cape Town and Orange.

And today, when he had just eaten breakfast under the service of the black slaves, he suddenly received shocking news.

The army of the Ming attacked Cape Town, annihilated the army of the Cape Town authorities, and inflicted heavy losses on the reinforcements sent by London, and even the new governor who was about to take office disappeared in the melee!

Because of the falsification of some intelligence details, the word "India" of John Churchill, the Viceroy of India, was missing.

This led little Pretorius to think that this was the new governor of Cape Town.

But it's not about the big picture.

When he learned that tens of thousands of British troops had arrived in South Africa, little Biletolius instinctively became alarmed.

He wasn't sure if the British had appeared to guard against a Ming raid or to plot a newly discovered gold mine near Pretoria.

Either way, they have now been defeated by the Ming, and a fourth force has emerged in the south.

Soon, little Biletolius convened a meeting to discuss the attitude he should take towards the new Ming people.

Is it to avoid contact?

Or try to communicate?

In fact, for these Boers who lived deep in the interior of Africa and could only raise cattle and sheep and raise slaves, the Ming were almost as strange as the Javanese.

Well, Java is still a Dutch colony, and they know a little bit about it, and for the Ming people, they rely entirely on the British newspapers.

In the end, the parliamentarians had to find a gem merchant.

It is said that he once traveled to North America with a ship to attend Richmond Fashion Week, and must have heard of that Ming country.

Little Byletolius asked, "André, are those Ming people as described in the British newspapers as evil, ferocious and cruel, more cruel than the Mongols and Huns?" ”

The jeweler named Andre was puzzled, and he could not think of why Mr. President would be interested in that country 108,000 miles away, so he had to answer truthfully:

"I did hear rumors of the Ming brutal torture of Europeans, for example, that they imprisoned captured French soldiers in mines, gave them potatoes and corn for every meal, ate meat only two or three times a month at most, underwent medical examinations every six months, and enjoyed free bloodletting therapy......"

"Wait, are you sure this is torturing them?"

The lawmakers in De Wasland were skeptical, "Instead of giving them a recuperation?" Even the soldiers of the British can't enjoy such treatment, right? Shouldn't slaves be treated the same way the Belgians did with the Congolese? ”

"Oh, Mr. Knappen, they're just getting plenty of food, clean water, free medical care......"

Andre waved his arms and said, "But they have lost their most precious freedom~!" At the bottom of the mine, hundreds of meters deep, they are engaged in the most dangerous work, but they don't even have the right to smoke a cigarette, what is the point of such a life! ”

Congressman Knappen was still trying to argue, but little Biletolius waved his hand to stop him, saying:

"Well, Councillor Knappen, let Mr. André get down to business, what I want to know is whether the Ming are really strong enough to contend with the British, and whether they are cruel to Europeans alike, or what is their policy towards the nations of Europe......

Forget it, you take a look at this first! ”