UN General Assembly
1963

28. When this happened, border clashes of course took place periodically —and that was mainly during the first half of the nineteenth century; yet despite this, the Xhosa nation of today, for instance, is largely resident in the same area as it had occupied at the end of the eighteenth century when it first came into contact with the European settlement. Similarly in the North of the country there was very little displacement of other Bantu peoples. On the contrary, there has taken place in the twentieth century what has always been accepted as a temporary overspill of Bantu into areas which had already been settled by Europeans. There is therefore no foundation whatsoever for the allegation so frequently made that the Europeans deprived the Bantu in South Africa of land which was traditionally theirs. In fact, for many years the South African Government has augmented the traditional Bantu homelands, which have been kept intact, by adding to them land which the Government had to purchase from Whites.