UN General Assembly
1959

36, On 31 May of next year, my country will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the coming together of the four provinces to form the present Union of South Africa. In this connexion, it is necessary to remind this Assembly of an historical fact which is not generally known, namely, that when, more than 300 years ago, the Cape of Good Hope was settled by immigrants from Europe, the first Bantu immigrants from Central Africa had come down the East Coast and were crossing the Limpopo River, which is the present northern boundary of the Union of South Africa. Up to that time, the country south of the Limpopo was sparsely inhabited by wandering and scattered groups of Hottentots and Bushmen. Thus it happened that the Bantu immigrants from Central Africa and the European settlers arrived at the northern and southern borders of South Africa, respectively, at approximately the same time. Both were immigrants to the then almost uninhabited southern portion of the African continent.