Jesus, this whole idea will create a clusterfuck and a half…
While it is a good thing to acknowledge and recognize the atrocities committed by Europeans during their imperialistic ages, its’ another thing entirely to suggest FORCING people who resided in the territories for generations back to a region of the world where they are just as much foreign as the places that aren’t traditionally apart of that region, which is exactly what the Afrikaner people are. Yes, they are descendants from early Dutch settlers, but that does not make them Dutch, not in the slightest. They have an entirely different culture and language (though still recognizable to Dutch but it still distinct enough to be considered a separate language altogether) and transplanting them back to the Netherlands would be the same as transplanting all European Americans into their predominant ethnic background’s home counties (by the way, European Americans are pretty much mixed together so much that it would be difficult to put them in their ethnic background’s homelands, then there’s the fact that they would be just as alien there as an African person or an Asian person, as European Americans have an entirely different culture and language from their home nations (and even for the Brits American English has varieties to it that makes it distinct from British English, though largely in the form of writings). Rather you like it or not, they’re here to stay and you can’t just forced them out, that’s blatantly against their human rights not to mention just flatly impossible. The more logical way to try and at least fix the centuries issues is through other, less extreme means, but I have no idea what that could be, even in the US most people are hesitant to suggest reparations for slavery, even African American activist, even though it can be considered a justifiable policy to take, just look at what the US did to Japanese Americans and how they repay them for the violation of human rights they had to endure. But even then that’s less than a generation or two after that and the damage wasn’t nearly as severe as centuries of slavery which existed long before the US even existed, and that would also call into question rather or not Spain, France, the United Kingdom and so on, also need to pay reparations for the damages they did to the regions of the world through their imperialism as well and again, I have point this out, to a lot of people this suggestion sounds extreme, not to mention it may not work in the way the people suggesting this think it would, at least when it is applied to other nations, after all, most of the world’s former colonies are by and large ruled by dictatorships that often steal the wealth of their citizens, this reparation money is more likely to fill their pockets then paying for improvements to their nation overall.
In a more simple term, Humans are a complicated bunch, and no ‘one size fit all’ solution will ever work regardless of our desire for a simple solution to an incredibly complex problem that is dealing with the ramifications of imperialism and colonialism and the problem they inflicted onto Africa, most of the Americas, and Asia. And don’t ask me, I have no idea how we could fix this existing clusterfuck, and I doubt anyone has an equally complicated answer to this complicated question.