In 1994 South Africa
held its first election with universal suffrage as previously people
with darker complexions did not have their right to vote recognised
outside Bantustans. The Bantustans were self governing tribal
homelands created by the South African National Party in their
enforcement of a British colonial policy described in the Burghers
creolised African language as Apartheid.
There are three main groups in South Africa. The Khoisan are indigenous South Africans described as coloured people. The Bantu are tribes descended from Nigerians and Biafrans whose ancestors travelled to South Africa with the military expansion of the Bantu empire. Then there are the Afrikaners who are descended from not only the former but Johann Van Riebeck's labourers and slaves of the multinational corporation Dutch East India Company as well. The Burghers, the slaves and labourers, arrived with the corporate colonists in the seventeenth century. Their descendants identify themselves as African thus they call themselves Afrikaners. After the British Empire's annexation of the Cape the Burghers were being repressed due to their sect of Christianity, and as such fled inland, during the Great Trek, as well as many other minor treks, in order to have their own Republic. After this period, the British won wars against the Boers, in order to take control of the whole of South Africa in 1910, until 1961, when South Africa gained independence in a referendum and became a Republic once again, from being in a Union with Britain from 1910.
Between 1948 and 1990 the South African National Party enforced a policy of separate development where possible. This led to segregation, racism, violence and oppression. In 1956 the opposition protest party the African National Congress adopted the Kliptown Freedom Charter which explicitly said “the people of South Africa black and white together equals”. This was incompatible of the SANP's practices of subjecting exclusively Bantu people to pass laws or segregation where possible.
On 21 March 1960 the ANC organised a protest at a police station in the Transvaal. Different sources say different things there are those who assert that the protest at Sharpeville was peaceful and non violent whereas others counter that masonry had been thrown at the police. There is no doubt however that sixty nine protesters were shot dead. Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo and others set up uMKhonto we sizwe, translates as spear of the nation, as the ANC's armed wing. Mandela was arrested when the CIA tipped off Pretoria police in 1964.
Mandela was released after negotiations with Pieter Botha then Freidrich Willem De Klerk in 1990. In 1994 after negotiations between SANP and ANC the ANC were elected. Due to what happened previously Afrikaners were demonised as irreformable racists by the world media despite the fact an Afrikaner authored the universal declaration of human rights, despite the fact they gave the world heart transplants and despite the fact they had voted at a ratio of two to one against Apartheid in the 1992 South African referendum.
Since 1994 there have been more farmers killed in South Africa than all of the farmers killed in Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia since all those countries achieved their independence.
Under the African National Congress's Apartheid regime there are over seven hundred thousand violent crimes a year from which all the people of South Africa suffer. The murder rate is 31, however it was 35 and indicators show it could be rising to its highest ever at the present, and there are 47 people murdered every single day in South Africa. To put that into context the violent society that is the United States of America has a murder rate of 4.5 and the world's most violent society Honduras has a murder rate of 90 which was 91. The Afrikaner murder rate is 97. To articulate the previous sentiment in a more rudimentary fashion Afrikaners are being slaughtered in Die Volksmoord at a faster rate than Hondurans are being killed. Then consider that the murder rate of South African farmers is 134. Equally horrific is that a person has a fifty percent chance of being raped when they leave their residence and a person is raped every seventeen seconds in South Africa.
South Africa has 700% more farm attacks than the international average. One in every eight of those farm attacks in end in murder. On 14th February 2003 president Thabo Mbeki announced the commandos would be stood down and that the Rural Protection Plan would be cut without consulting the South African Police Service's head of rural security. This when between one and a half thousand and two thousand farmers had been murdered out of the last ten thousand farm attacks which had all happened within the decade previous to the announcement. The Commandos were 45,000 strong in 186 units and were able to carry out ninety thousand operations every two years. Thabo Mbeki promised an alternative policing structure called the Sector Policing Service. As of 2015 no such structure exists.
How are the Bantu people of South Africa treated under this modern Apartheid dictatorship? To answer this one could do worse than look at an article by Niq Mhlongo, a Zulu gentleman, who is a City Press journalist. It is titled “SA's black apartheid” and it can be found on the News24.com website. It describes how he was asked for identification, searched then was forced by police to pass a language and accent test.
Basically he had to speak a South African language in a South African accent to prove he was South African. He then states in the article that it is a curse to be Bantu in South Africa. He then articulates the belief in the minds of racist South African Bantu people that Bantu people from other countries are darker complexioned, less cultured and less intelligent than Bantu people in South Africa.
He explains that people in South Africa flying or travelling to other countries on the continent they still say that they are going to Africa. What is revealing though is that Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho are not considered foreign countries in South Africa. This can be explained by the fact there are domestic Tswana, Swazi and Sotho populations in South Africa. In another article on the News 24 website by Netwerk 24 opposition party Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane condemned the African National Congress for trampling on Nelson Mandela's dream of a democratic South Africa, implementing Apartheid and not creating jobs and opportunities for unemployed South Africans.
Another little known fact is that seventy percent of victims raped during farm attacks are Bantu people. Sixty seven percent of Bantu children and seventy six percent of Bantu people in South Africa live in poverty. It would be a fiction to suggest that only one or a few selected groups suffer in South Africa. While there are thirty two million Bantu people living in poverty there are also a million Afrikaners living in poverty including the half a million Afrikaners who live in concentration camps like countless Bantu people and Khoisan people in South Africa. Khoisan people have the highest incarceration rate amongst South African ethnic groups and this is a particular hurtful grievance as Khoisan people were the original indigenous inhabitants of South Africa. Bikkisdorp is where a lot of Khoisan people reside in the Cape Flats and was the inspiration for the dystopic vision of South Africa in the film District 9.
There are a million Afrikaners left in employment. The ANC is using “positive discrimination” and “affirmative action” in their Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment legislation. The stated aim is to increase employment among Bantu people and Khoisan people. However in practice it has resulted in Afrikaner exclusion from the job market. This is not surprising as there is nothing positive about discrimination. Basil Brookeborough former Prime Minister of the six county state in Ulster promoted positive discrimination by encouraging businesses to “employ good Protestant lads and lasses” despite the fact he employed many Catholics on his estate in Fermanagh. This resulted in job advertisements saying “Catholics need not apply” and “Nationalists need not apply”. The message that BBBEE sends out is Afrikaners need not apply and Boers need not apply.
Red October is a protest movement in South Africa which campaigns for Afrikaner human rights. Theresa Oakley Smith made a disgracefully racist dismissal of it by calling it “White October”. In the same sentence she made another racist slur by dismissing legitimate Khoisan grievances as a “little coloured thing”. Most alarmingly her job description is “diversity officer”.
Apartheid was a segregationist separate development system British imperialists first enforced in South Africa in Natalia during 1857 when they levied a tax on Bantu people and polygamists. This was fourteen years after annexing the Boer republic. From 1857 until 1993 there were a total of sixty acts of legislation that discriminated against people with darker complexions in South Africa. There are now over a hundred and twenty laws discriminating against people with lighter complexions in South Africa so that now there are twice as many racist laws than there ever were under the South African National Party's Apartheid regime.
The Afrikaner genocide is at stage seven of the eight stages of genocide which is extermination. To put that into full perspective Yemen is at the seventh of the eight stages of genocide. Summarising South Africa, Yemen and Palestine are all at stage seven of eight and stage nine of the ten stages of genocide. The graph below shows this.
There are three main groups in South Africa. The Khoisan are indigenous South Africans described as coloured people. The Bantu are tribes descended from Nigerians and Biafrans whose ancestors travelled to South Africa with the military expansion of the Bantu empire. Then there are the Afrikaners who are descended from not only the former but Johann Van Riebeck's labourers and slaves of the multinational corporation Dutch East India Company as well. The Burghers, the slaves and labourers, arrived with the corporate colonists in the seventeenth century. Their descendants identify themselves as African thus they call themselves Afrikaners. After the British Empire's annexation of the Cape the Burghers were being repressed due to their sect of Christianity, and as such fled inland, during the Great Trek, as well as many other minor treks, in order to have their own Republic. After this period, the British won wars against the Boers, in order to take control of the whole of South Africa in 1910, until 1961, when South Africa gained independence in a referendum and became a Republic once again, from being in a Union with Britain from 1910.
Between 1948 and 1990 the South African National Party enforced a policy of separate development where possible. This led to segregation, racism, violence and oppression. In 1956 the opposition protest party the African National Congress adopted the Kliptown Freedom Charter which explicitly said “the people of South Africa black and white together equals”. This was incompatible of the SANP's practices of subjecting exclusively Bantu people to pass laws or segregation where possible.
On 21 March 1960 the ANC organised a protest at a police station in the Transvaal. Different sources say different things there are those who assert that the protest at Sharpeville was peaceful and non violent whereas others counter that masonry had been thrown at the police. There is no doubt however that sixty nine protesters were shot dead. Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo and others set up uMKhonto we sizwe, translates as spear of the nation, as the ANC's armed wing. Mandela was arrested when the CIA tipped off Pretoria police in 1964.
Mandela was released after negotiations with Pieter Botha then Freidrich Willem De Klerk in 1990. In 1994 after negotiations between SANP and ANC the ANC were elected. Due to what happened previously Afrikaners were demonised as irreformable racists by the world media despite the fact an Afrikaner authored the universal declaration of human rights, despite the fact they gave the world heart transplants and despite the fact they had voted at a ratio of two to one against Apartheid in the 1992 South African referendum.
Since 1994 there have been more farmers killed in South Africa than all of the farmers killed in Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia since all those countries achieved their independence.
Under the African National Congress's Apartheid regime there are over seven hundred thousand violent crimes a year from which all the people of South Africa suffer. The murder rate is 31, however it was 35 and indicators show it could be rising to its highest ever at the present, and there are 47 people murdered every single day in South Africa. To put that into context the violent society that is the United States of America has a murder rate of 4.5 and the world's most violent society Honduras has a murder rate of 90 which was 91. The Afrikaner murder rate is 97. To articulate the previous sentiment in a more rudimentary fashion Afrikaners are being slaughtered in Die Volksmoord at a faster rate than Hondurans are being killed. Then consider that the murder rate of South African farmers is 134. Equally horrific is that a person has a fifty percent chance of being raped when they leave their residence and a person is raped every seventeen seconds in South Africa.
South Africa has 700% more farm attacks than the international average. One in every eight of those farm attacks in end in murder. On 14th February 2003 president Thabo Mbeki announced the commandos would be stood down and that the Rural Protection Plan would be cut without consulting the South African Police Service's head of rural security. This when between one and a half thousand and two thousand farmers had been murdered out of the last ten thousand farm attacks which had all happened within the decade previous to the announcement. The Commandos were 45,000 strong in 186 units and were able to carry out ninety thousand operations every two years. Thabo Mbeki promised an alternative policing structure called the Sector Policing Service. As of 2015 no such structure exists.
How are the Bantu people of South Africa treated under this modern Apartheid dictatorship? To answer this one could do worse than look at an article by Niq Mhlongo, a Zulu gentleman, who is a City Press journalist. It is titled “SA's black apartheid” and it can be found on the News24.com website. It describes how he was asked for identification, searched then was forced by police to pass a language and accent test.
Basically he had to speak a South African language in a South African accent to prove he was South African. He then states in the article that it is a curse to be Bantu in South Africa. He then articulates the belief in the minds of racist South African Bantu people that Bantu people from other countries are darker complexioned, less cultured and less intelligent than Bantu people in South Africa.
He explains that people in South Africa flying or travelling to other countries on the continent they still say that they are going to Africa. What is revealing though is that Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho are not considered foreign countries in South Africa. This can be explained by the fact there are domestic Tswana, Swazi and Sotho populations in South Africa. In another article on the News 24 website by Netwerk 24 opposition party Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane condemned the African National Congress for trampling on Nelson Mandela's dream of a democratic South Africa, implementing Apartheid and not creating jobs and opportunities for unemployed South Africans.
Another little known fact is that seventy percent of victims raped during farm attacks are Bantu people. Sixty seven percent of Bantu children and seventy six percent of Bantu people in South Africa live in poverty. It would be a fiction to suggest that only one or a few selected groups suffer in South Africa. While there are thirty two million Bantu people living in poverty there are also a million Afrikaners living in poverty including the half a million Afrikaners who live in concentration camps like countless Bantu people and Khoisan people in South Africa. Khoisan people have the highest incarceration rate amongst South African ethnic groups and this is a particular hurtful grievance as Khoisan people were the original indigenous inhabitants of South Africa. Bikkisdorp is where a lot of Khoisan people reside in the Cape Flats and was the inspiration for the dystopic vision of South Africa in the film District 9.
There are a million Afrikaners left in employment. The ANC is using “positive discrimination” and “affirmative action” in their Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment legislation. The stated aim is to increase employment among Bantu people and Khoisan people. However in practice it has resulted in Afrikaner exclusion from the job market. This is not surprising as there is nothing positive about discrimination. Basil Brookeborough former Prime Minister of the six county state in Ulster promoted positive discrimination by encouraging businesses to “employ good Protestant lads and lasses” despite the fact he employed many Catholics on his estate in Fermanagh. This resulted in job advertisements saying “Catholics need not apply” and “Nationalists need not apply”. The message that BBBEE sends out is Afrikaners need not apply and Boers need not apply.
Red October is a protest movement in South Africa which campaigns for Afrikaner human rights. Theresa Oakley Smith made a disgracefully racist dismissal of it by calling it “White October”. In the same sentence she made another racist slur by dismissing legitimate Khoisan grievances as a “little coloured thing”. Most alarmingly her job description is “diversity officer”.
Apartheid was a segregationist separate development system British imperialists first enforced in South Africa in Natalia during 1857 when they levied a tax on Bantu people and polygamists. This was fourteen years after annexing the Boer republic. From 1857 until 1993 there were a total of sixty acts of legislation that discriminated against people with darker complexions in South Africa. There are now over a hundred and twenty laws discriminating against people with lighter complexions in South Africa so that now there are twice as many racist laws than there ever were under the South African National Party's Apartheid regime.
The Afrikaner genocide is at stage seven of the eight stages of genocide which is extermination. To put that into full perspective Yemen is at the seventh of the eight stages of genocide. Summarising South Africa, Yemen and Palestine are all at stage seven of eight and stage nine of the ten stages of genocide. The graph below shows this.
Since 1994 there
have been one thousand two hundred and sixty three violent attacks by
Afrikaners on Bantu people compared to seventy nine thousand eight
hundred and fifteen attacks by Bantu people on Afrikaners.
What is revealing is not only comparing the current Apartheid regime with the previous Apartheid regime but also comparing the former with two traumatic episodes in South African history. The Anglo Zulu war was a war fought between Britain and Kwazulu in Natal and it had a third of the victims that the South African National Party regime had. Then there is the second Boer freedom war which had a third of the victims that the ANC regime has at the present. There is also a disparity between the Anglo Zulu war and the second Boer freedom war as well as a huge disparity between the South African National Party's Apartheid regime and the African National Congress's Apartheid regime.
Another indicator of
the effects of Apartheid under the ANC is the ethnic demographic map
of South Africa. It shows clear segregation in terms of ethnic
majority areas and enclaves. It is clear that the Khoisan live in the
Northern Cape, the Western Cape and the most western points of the
Orange Free State and Eastern Cape. It is clear that while there are
Bantu minorities in the east of the Northern Cape that they are the
majority in Bophuthatswana, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Transvaal,
Orange Free State, Natal and the Eastern Cape. It clear to see the
majority of Indians live in the Northern Cape as well as substantial
populations in Western Cape and Eastern Cape. The are also Indian
enclaves in Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Bophuthatswana,
Limpopo and Mpumalanga. The Afrikaners are most located in the
Transvaal, Orange Free State, Bophuthatswana, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
There are Afrikaner enclaves in Natal, Northern Cape , Western Cape
and Eastern Cape.
The colour key for the ethnic demographic map below are Bantu are red, Khoisan are turquoise, Afrikaners are yellow and Indians are grey. Alongside to the right is a provincial map to prove the aforementioned geographical descriptions.
The colour key for the ethnic demographic map below are Bantu are red, Khoisan are turquoise, Afrikaners are yellow and Indians are grey. Alongside to the right is a provincial map to prove the aforementioned geographical descriptions.
Then there is the Economic Freedom Fighters leader and former ANCYL leader Julius Malema who has twice been convicted of hate speech. This was for his singing of Ayasaba Amagwala which means Cowards are scared. Note that it is pejorative. The chorus of the song is a repetitive refrain Dubula iBhunu which means Shoot the Boer. Another verse contains the lyrics these dogs are raping, another dehumanising insult towards Afrikaners.
Nor is it the only insult Malema has hurled towards Afrikaners. He has chanted the lyrics Peter Mokaba used at the Chris Hani commemoration to whip the crowd into a frenzy “Kill the Boer, the Farmer”. Since his hate speech convictions Malema has toned it down to “Kiss the Boer, the Farmer” however he quickly follows this up with mimicry of gunshots. He has also said all white people are criminals.
Then there is the current president Jacob Zuma who recently stated that all South Africa's problems started when Johann Van Reibeck arrived on the Cape. Zuma has also sang a song with the lyrics Dubula iBhunu but it was not a struggle song. He sang the lyrics “the Cabinet dubula ibhunu” and the South African executive under the National Party were Boers so they would not be shooting their fellow Boers. The logical conclusion that must be drawn is that Zuma was singing about the ANC cabinet shooting the Boers.
There is also the Pan African Congress slogan “One Boer One Bullet”. This along with further dehumanising of Afrikaners by calling them cockroaches is incompatible with the hopes that Nelson Mandela stated for South Africans to aim for. He said “I have fought against White domination and I have fought against Black domination” in his famous I am prepared to die speech at the Rivonia trial. He then clearly told the Congress Of South African Trade Unions “If the ANC does to you what the Apartheid government did to you, then you must do the ANC what you did to the Apartheid government”.
It would be wise to remember the words from Mandela's inauguration “Never, never again shall it be that this beautiful land experiences the oppression of one by another.” South Africa is currently experiencing the oppression of one by another. One is the people of South Africa and another is Jacob Zuma and his cruel ANC Apartheid regime.
The Boer Afrikaner and Southern Rhodesian genocides are not discussed never mind given the prominence they ought to be given. Between ten and twenty Afrikaners are murdered every day in South Africa. Over seventy thousand Afrikaners have been murdered since the African National Congress succeeded the National Party. Between ten and fourteen Boer farmers are murdered every week. Over four thousand Boer farmers have been murdered under the ANC. The murders are clearly racially motivated. They are often tortured, beaten and raped as well as butchered. This is shown clearly in Rian Van der Walt's War of the Flea documentary. People have been dragged by trucks over bumpy and rocky roads, people have had their fingers beaten off their hands with lead pipes, people have had their heads bashed in with blunt instruments, babies have been beaten with machetes, people have been raped and decapitated yet there are those who would deny targeting an ethnicity for such treatment is neither racist nor genocidal. Another racist double standard is that not a word is said in condemnation of the seven thousand exclusively Bantu towns in South Africa with no Caucasians, no Asians and no Khoisan, who were the original inhabitants, but Caucasian majorities in Balmoral, Orania and Owendale are condemned as is the significant Caucasian minority in Morgenzon and Caucasian majority areas on the Cape, in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. In Zimbabwe there were 296.000 Southern Rhodesians when Ian Douglas Smith was premier. In 1999 there were 120,000 in Zimbabwe but now there are only 100,000 worldwide with only 28,000 left in Zimbabwe. Over twenty Southern Rhodesian farmers were murdered in violent takeovers in a land reform program by the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front. The beneficiaries happened to be associates of the president. Rape gangs have targeted Caucasians in Zimbabwe on the basis of their race.
To understand why the genocide of European Caucasians from Africa is an outrage which should concern us all then imagine a scenario where all non Caucasian minorities in Europe and Caucasian majority nations in the Occident were suffering genocide and ethnic cleansing. There would be a massive international outcry and correctly so. Why is there not an international fury at what is happening to the Boer and the Southern Rhodesian? The absence of condemnation and action against these crimes gives out the immoral signal that racial discrimination against Caucasians is socially acceptable when it is completely unacceptable.
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