阿非利卡人的土地观念与殖民南非

Afrikaaners’ Land Conception and Their Colonizing South Africa

17世纪下半叶,荷属"东印度公司"的雇员从北欧出发,占领了南部非洲的开普,并以此为据点,逐步向北和向东开拓,最后占据了整个南非。也正是在此殖民过程中,荷兰人成为了阿非利卡人,几乎成为南非所有土地的主人。荷兰人殖民扩张的主要思想渊源,也是最具理论性和法理性的武器,就是"无主土地"的观点。在这种深层心理根基的积淀下,荷兰人及其后裔阿非利卡人大肆掠夺原住民土地。在今天看来,在土著民族和主持公正的世人眼里,以荷兰人为代表的西方殖民者编造的这种"无主土地"的神话无疑是一种强词夺理的强盗逻辑。

In the second half of the 18th century, as the most powerful colonialists of the world then, the Netherlanders ccupied first Cape and then to the east the whole of today’s South Africa, during which the Netherlanders became Afrikaaners and the owners of almost all South African lands with many high-sounding reasons. This paper mainly aims to explore the relation between the land cognition of the Netherlands colonialists and their practice in colonizing South Africa, to reveal the colonialists’ mental process of colonizing South Africa and spoliating the land of native people.