Keith.

I don't doubt your sincerity, but you aren't that well informed if you are unaware of the suspicion and prejudice that really exists between "british" south africans and Afrikaaners.

The fact that you as a non south african have been able to socialize with Afrikaaners doesn't really have much to do with the reality of SA's cultural history.

As individuals and in their own context, Afrikaaners are of course warm frindly hospitable and generous. This is also true of every other "type" of human alive.

This fact is equally irrelevant to the historical fact of british/boer mistrust.

I am sure that you've never met a white south african who said he was pro Apartheid either. Yet it took a long bitter and bloody struggle to bury it once and for all and the majority of them were quite happy to benefit from it while it was there, just as they are quite blind to the continued disparity in wealth and privilege that exists today.

South Africa is a very complex and traumatised Nation and cannot be judged simplistically on the basis of pleasantaries exchanged at a social function.

I'll rely on the knowledge I have learned from reading and from my brother who lives in pretoria thanks.