The English also protected natives.
Dr.Kuyper says:-- "With little regard for the real rights of their ancient colonists, _the English prided themselves on protecting the imaginary rights of the natives_." The italics are his own.

This virtuous protester continues:-- "Deceived by the reports from their missionaries, little worthy of belief, and led astray by a sentimental love for primitive man, 'The Aborigines Protection Societies,' so drastically exposed by Edmund Burke, saw their opportunity.

With their Aborigines Societies, the deists posed in the political arena as protectors of the native races, while, in religious circles, the Christians with their missionary societies posed as their benefactors." Dr.Kuyper forgives neither the deists nor the missionaries.

And what of the Boers?
"The Boers had introduced a system of slavery copied from that adopted by the English in their American colonies; but greatly modified.

I do not deny that, at times, the Boers have been too harsh, and have committed excesses....
"The Boers are not sentimentalists, but are eminently practical.
They recognised that these Hottentots and Basutos were an inferior race....
"The Boers have always resolutely faced the difficulty of the colour question so persistently kept out of view by the English." And Dr.Kuyper goes on to speak of the multiplication of the blacks in South Africa.