UN General Assembly
1978

Afrikaners are without foundation. All the black populations of Transvaal, Orange, Natal, Transkei and the Cape obviously occupied the south of the continent well before the white migrations. The testimony of African history in this regard is indisputable. The Sothos, for instance, had been established in the Transvaal since the fifth century- 1,200 years before the first Dutch, German and French settlers, the ancestors of the Boers or Afrikaners, set foot there. 34. We must make it clear that the whites of South Africa settled in that region of the continent after a long military conquest that involved numerous acts of resistance on the part of the indigenous blacks. That was a colonial conquest and was point for point similar to those the other European Powers formerly engaged in Africa.