... have control their own farms. So the government finally gave them their own stretches of allotted land. This group was giving the name of "Boer", meaning farmer in Dutch. The Dutch East Company soon favored the idea of independent farming and realized that the Boers were a better source to get cattle ... Nelson Mandela along with 156 blacks and some members of the ANC were arrested in contempt of making a communist plot to over throw the government. The Government tried for 5 long years to prove its case in court that became know as the treason trials(Pascoe 81). Starting in 1952 launched...

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