Hannes Wessels,
For someone with my background, reading the enraged writings of the liberal, ‘legacy’ (mainly white) media in South Africa attacking President Trump for his unprovoked ‘ambush’ of President Ramaphosa at the White House two weeks ago, and for the peddling of ‘fake news’ by alleging a ‘genocide’ unfolding in the country, has been a disheartening experience.
All eyes in the White House and much of the world were on Julius Malema singing his now infamous ‘kill the Boer’ song. I remember a song very similar to this from the 1970’s during the Rhodesian war when it was sung by members of Robert Mugabe’s and Joshua Nkomo’s ‘liberation’ movements with the same gusto, and I also learned the hard way that they meant it.
During the war they killed 318 farmers, wives and children and post Mugabe taking power, they killed another 90. This is a significant number of murders considering the total number of white farmers was approximately 5,000. Those that hung on in spite of the deadly danger were finally evicted in the violent land seizures ordered by President Mugabe in 2000. This might be overstated as a ‘genocide’ but it certainly was an ethnic cleansing and it crippled the country’s economy. It should also be noted that when Mugabe decided to ‘cleanse’ the land of his white countrymen this had the unequivocal support of the ANC government then led by President Thabo Mbeki and President Ramaphosa has never voiced any criticism of this outrage. Throughout his tenure in political power Ramaphosa has stood solidly behind the ruling ZANU PF party, no matter how badly they have behaved. This support buttressed the regime but with the collapse of the economy it is estimated over three-million Zimbabweans have fled their homeland for South Africa exacerbating the serious unemployment problem already plaguing the country.
This tragedy took place in full view of the abovementioned editors and columnists and yet they have chosen to ignore it and insist that the songs and rantings from EFF (Economic Freedom Front) leader Julius Malema should be trivialised, and the real problem facing the country is Trump. I find it astonishing what ‘white guilt’, gutlessness, and Trump Derangement Syndrome, can do to very intelligent, well informed people. On the moot question of genocide they also choose to ignore another important lesson from history.
Adolf Hitler in 1930’s Germany, shrewdly read the popular mood when trying to grow his support by explaining in no uncertain terms, to a disgruntled majority that their poverty was quite simply the consequence of the insatiable greed of Jews. We all know what followed, and Malema is now doing precisely the same, except he is blaming the Afrikaners. Dispose of the ‘Boers’ by killing them if necessary, and all you poor people will be rich is the message that is resonating with a growing audience. What makes the South African situation even more worrisome is the fact that Malema’s growing following is probably even angrier, more prone to violence, poorer, and less well informed than the Germans were making the matrix even more combustible and the possibility of a bloodbath even more likely.
If this does happen it will be a truly tragic denouement of the story of the Boers. Being of Afrikaner parentage, with a family history in southern Africa stretching back roughly 350 years I fear the worst for a people who seem to have fought for generations for the simple longing to be left alone to enjoy their own language, culture and religion.
It was for this reason they fled Europe in the 17th Century and arrived in small numbers on the southern shores of the continent to battle pestilence, poverty and hostile tribes in a wilderness with no possibility of outside support. No sooner had they found their niche than the arrival of British suzerainty wrecked their newfound sanctuary and compelled them to trek north into another hostile wilderness to separate themselves. And again, scarcely had they settled into their new, hard-won homeland, than their refuge was breached by new arrivals of varying ethnicities, following the discovery of gold and diamonds. This development triggered the Boer War in 1899 and although they fought with enormous courage, and skill, they were eventually overwhelmed by numbers and firepower and vanquished.
Their hold on political power lasted from 1948 to 1994 and their policy of ‘Separate Development’ has been declared a ‘crime against humanity’. It was also a period of stupendous economic growth and the infrastructural development that took place under Afrikaner rule made it by far the most developed country in Africa and comfortably positioned as a First World nation.
Most of that infrastructure has been destroyed under ANC rule and the economy is imploding amid rising unemployment which is almost certainly going to lead to serious unrest and possibly civil war.
While a handful have found relief in the US some 3,000 are now hunkered down on privately owned land in the hard, dry country of the Karoo in the town of Orania. Their hope they would be left alone appears to be a forlorn one; Julius Malema’s EFF is leading the call for them to be invaded and evicted. They are determined to hold their ground but if history is to repeat itself, they should probably take up the American offer and leave.
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Ja, white people in Africa, who knows where this is all going. Times are a changing. The whole world seems to be in a spin. Trump is a sign (amongst others) that we have stepped over some kind of fulcrum. Some of the old ideas are gaining traction.
Julius has his own destiny. He can never satisfy the expectations he is whipping up. My guess is that he will be his own victim. Hope to live long enough to see it.
Mugabe had an excellent end. Even his best friends didn’t love him any more. His name is dirt world wide. Who could ask for more?
Afrikaaners will be around in Africa for evermore, and some of us Engels ous too.
Thank you for your comment. Sad but true 🙁
Good article Hannes.
I’ve just found another ancestor (my gt gt grandmother), Anna Maria Sophia Buys (born Snyman) (born Bethuli OFS 1830), who died in a British concentration camp (Norvalspont) in 1901 during the Boer War (1899-1902). I’ve found about 10 ancestors who perished in Brit Concentration Camps so far. Norvalspont is in the middle of the Karoo in the Northern Cape and is a ferry crossing across the Orange River. Only the Brits could build a concentration camp of the middle of nowhere!!!!
About 30,000 (one tenth of Boer population) women (3000), children (24,000) old men (1000) died in the camps including 24,000 children.
20,000+ Bantu farm workers also perished in separate camps. The British invented Apartheid hence the separate camps. They also invented concentration camps!!!!!! You gotta hand it to the Pommie Commies and their Commonwealth “mates” (ie: Azis, Keeweeees and Canuks. There were also a lot of Indian troops in a non combat role).
All in all 250,000 British and Commonwealth troops were ranged against 25,000 Boer Commandos. Not exactly a fair fight if you ask me!!!!!
You are right about the gutless white Legacy press. We have a lot of them in Aziland. The self congratulatory Azis hate talking about their own genocidal racist history. They would rather throw stones at South Africa!!!!! The way they carry on about how wonderful they are you would think they invented democracy before the Ancient Greeks!!!!!
Bonehead, the pretentious Irish woke so called “rockstar” is a big fan of Malema’s “KiIl the Boer” song. He thinks it’s a “Grand Tune” which is why they call him Bonehead…….
I read years ago that when the Boer did their big Trek North the had good relations with the Natives.
The Blacks possessed barely 20% of what is now South Africa and now own the lot including Khoi and San lands.
Ramaphosa owns land in the Limpopo Region..
Marxist Mischief at work. It was Marxist Joe Slovo and his cronies who advised the ANC.
I looks to me like people do not understand Trumps offer. Is he on the Marxist side offering the Whites a safe haven before they are slaughtered. And that is the agenda, expell the Whites. Does Trump know the full story?
As always a great and well informed article thank you and looking forward for more great reading! Best greetings
Cultural Marxism is to blame for these gutless types Hannes. In the UK we see them fawning over foreigners, rejecting their own heritage, kith and kin and blindly hoping that Disestablishmentarialism will herald a new utopia, forgetting that Islam is far more onerous. The Commies called them Useful Tools. I think we can drop the useful and replace it with broken – as useless as a BROKEN tool. Neither use nor ornament as my old mum used to say.
I agree with you. I grew up in what was Rhodesia. I have always said that Mugabe is the ANC and EFF role model. That is what they aspire to. Ramaposa and the ANC have no intention of changing and do not care so long as they benefit and screw the long term consequences
I do not know how to change it. The first is to withhold paying taxes and VAT. Put this money into an account that the ANC cannot touch
EFF = Economic Freedom Fighters
a very well written article!! it is indeed shameful what has and still is happening! the victimization and not so subtle persecution of white people in South Africa is a disgrace! that idiot Julius should be in jail as should most of the current so called leaders!! Particularly Zuma!! the blacks are out breeding the whites very quickly so I am not sure why they are so obsessed with getting rid of the only people who actually make this country work!
Such a tragic denouement indeed. You so expertly captured the salient points of the Afrikaner’s history. A great read.
You’re so right Hannes they should take up America’s offer and leave. But I remember in Zimbabwe, and the same plays out now with South Africans I know, they get angry at the suggestion. None so queer as folk.
Wow, that really resonates with me! I was born a “Rhodesian” but my roots in South Africa also go back both to a certain German soldier named Wessels on one side of the family and the victims of a serious and fraudulent misrepresentation that arrived here in 1820 on the other. I remember serving in the Rhodesian forces and then, in 1980, believing I had been lied to by the Rhodesian leaders, deciding to serve on in the Zimbabwean military to help work together with my former enemies to build a strong and flourishing Zimbabwe for all. It didn’t take long for the mask to slip. It is ironic that, with nearly everyone having agreed that judging people by race was wrong and a crime against humanity, the new government set about – well, judging everyone by race AND tribe. When I hear about starving Zimbabweans, I always wonder what would have happened if the great Robert Gabriel had actually stuck to his 1980 promises. The parallels with SA today are obvious – another whole lot of potential joy squandered as a sacrifice on the altar of an unrelenting visceral racism.
Reading the bile unleashed on President Trump by people I also used to admire is very disappointing. I wish that Trump had been better briefed on the specific facts for the Oval Office meeting, but the overall truth is undeniable.