"In the 1680s, Dutch, French and Germans fled religious persecution in Europe and settled in Southern Africa. They called themselves the Afrikaners, White Africans. For the next 250 years, the British Empire fought the Afrikaners for control of the land, the gold and 20 million Native Africans. In 1948, a conservative Afrikaner government was voted into power. A system of racial segregation first introduced by the English was declared the law of the land. The English never gave the system a name. The Afrikaners called it Apartheid. Our story begins 18 years earlier, in 1930, on a small English farm in South Africa."@en