Portugal in its great obsession with the '''grande estado das Indias Orientais ''' completely ignored South Africa although they were the first people to set foot there under Bartolomeu Dias in 1490s. Hence Lusitanians with their Portuguese speaking cousins, the Brazilians were sent home rather ingloriously. South Africa did not forget either the various former colonial masters like England, France and Italy who were forced to bite the dust.. However, South Africa appears to be smiling benignly upon the European people who came and settled down therein like the Dutch ( Boers/ Afrikaaners) and the Deutsch ( former Germans of Naimbia). I shall not be surprised if in the final game , most probably between Germany and Netherlans, the latter turn out to be victorious with the blessing of the Boer Spirit of South Africa.
