As has been stated, the Final Solution did not have that sort of similar meaning, Bartle Frere had visions of glory and South Africa dominated by Britain, much like another later commissioner, Milner, he wanted to secure the region under the British crown. He had two hurdles to this, the Boers and the Zulus, Frere forced war on the Zulus, by making extremely unreasonable demands for relatively minor infractions, and siding with the Boers in almost all cases against the Zulus, in one notable case, he even reversed a previous decision made by some British officers (including Durnford) in favor of the Boers regarding some disputed land. The Zulus were really the only powerful independent black nation left in South Africa, and the national bugaboo for the Boer nations, to bring the whole region under British authority, the Zulus would have to be eliminated, which would win the British support amongst the Boers. I don't think there was a deliberate attempt to link the British with the Nazis, the British tended to be a rather fair and humane colonial power, at least in comparison to the rest.
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