Time waits for no one, including me. I’ve been busy writing other parts of this article and only just got around to discussing something related to yesterday, Thursday 21 March 2019. It was a public holiday in South Africa, called Human Rights Day. What a bitter joke… South Africa may have a public holiday to celebrate human rights, but let me tell you, this country’s government violates them almost daily. The ANC still hasn’t learned from its own history. Do you know who Joe Mamasela is? One of a handful of black askaris who worked for C10, or the “Vlakplaas death squad” as it’s more commonly called. As I recall, he was in the ANC, on an operation when he was caught. The cops tortured the crap out of him, but he wasn’t talking. You know what happened next? The ANC grabbed his brother and accused him of spying for the Apartheid government. The idiotic “revolutionaries” tortured an innocent man to death. When Joe Mamasela heard about that, he joined C10 and became one of their most effective assets. The man was so enraged by what the ANC had done that apparently not even the Vlakplaas unit could give him enough targets, he took out so many. Twenty-five years later, ANC-led blacks still torture people, often innocent ones. As I can testify based upon personal experience, along with their white lackeys they also deprive people of civil rights enshrined in chapter 2 of the constitution, due process, access to legal counsel and justice, commit all sorts of other malfeasance which they then cover up- and yet demand that people not take matters in their own hands and remain loyal to a government which is doing more and more to brutalise them.
Years ago, some prisoners at St. Albans prison outside Port Elizabeth drew some shanks and stabbed a guard to death. Such things happen for a number of reasons, among them gang initiation. In that case, the rule is that once weapons are issued by the gang’s quartermaster, blood has to be shed either by the target or by the weapons bearers if they fail. Of course the prison staff aren’t going to be happy if something like this happens, but “it’s business”. Unfortunately for the entire prison population, the guard was a nephew of the minister of Corrections. The whole prison was locked down, tactical teams were sent in and what followed was a month of torture and depriving the prisoners of medical care for the wounds they had suffered in that time. Word got out eventually. The government denied it. A few years later, a group of prisoners who were denied justice for the torture they had endured found a lawyer to represent them and after trying unsuccessfully to sue the government, this guy somehow managed to take the case to the United Nations. In the end, I don’t know if those former inmates were ever compensated, but the South African government was cited by the U.N. for violating the very human rights it had celebrated yesterday. As I’ve said before, I’m not a psychopath. If a guy rapes my wife or kills my family, of course he’ll be damned lucky to see the inside of a prison cell, but I’d either put two hollow point bullets in the back of his head so that he doesn’t get an open casket funeral or stab him in the medulla- quick and humane. When it comes to torture, I might do it in a “ticking time bomb” scenario, but even then would have to think about it very carefully. So, while I have almost no qualms about putting criminals in prison (they are truly horrible places) or six feet under, I also don’t believe in torturing people for something they didn’t do. Last I heard, there have been around 5.000 claims of torture per year against the South African police since 1994, and that’s a lot of hypocrisy for a government which claims to be led by victims of a crime against humanity who believe in human rights.
Yes folks, today’s left wingers call Apartheid “a crime against humanity”. I’m not sure how the U.N. came up with that idea, considering the death toll is estimated at 21.000 between 1961 and 1994, of whom the Apartheid regime is believed to have killed around 3.000 people (over 30 years!) while the ANC and other “liberation movements” shot, beat to death or necklaced the other 18.000. Now let’s compare that with communism, which is estimated to have killed globally at least 100 million, of whom 45 million died in China during Mao’s time, around 20 million in the USSR when Stalin was in power, and probably only God knows how many more were murdered in other communist countries. Now tell me, which do you think is the crime against humanity? Just so there is no misunderstanding, what I wrote above is not about “the poor suffering black people of South Africa”. It was to point out three things. First, that the ANC and the government it leads are so crooked that a blind man can see they have no respect for the laws which they enact and are increasingly brutal in dealing with the population of this country. Second, they are therefore not the saints they were made out to be from the 1960s until today. Third, that just like warriors, enemies are not born, they are created- and the ANC along with the government have been creating a lot of them for decades.
There is something else the ANC and blacks in general do, pretty much at every opportunity they can get, and that is to victimise and marginalise the white people of this country, in particular the Afrikaners. Let me tell you, the Afrikaners are not the easiest people to know and get along with. A lot of them are standoffish, passive aggressive, some are blindly religious to the point where they have mental problems (I know at least two), xenophobic, unthinking, and prone to snap judgements about other people which are often wrong. I think the reason for this defensive mindset is rooted in history, starting with their ancestors who left Europe because of religious persecution, going through the conflicts they’ve had with the black tribes here and later, the two wars against the British empire and subsequent decades of oppressive imperial administration which was heavily prejudiced against them.
Although Afrikaans existed as a language for about 100 years before Winston Churchill had his adventures as a journalist, it was only recognised officially on 8 May 1925. Between the end of the Anglo-Boer wars and independence, the official language of the law courts was English and if you as a post-war Boer neither spoke it nor could afford a translator’s services, you were screwed- and let me tell you, the Boers really got screwed… After South Africa got its independence from Britain in 1961, Afrikaners began to lead the country. One of the things they did was to improve the standing of their language and culture. To facilitate that, they built a lot of primary schools, high schools and universities in which the language of teaching was Afrikaans, and some endure to this day. They didn’t stop there. While English was one of the two official languages, Afrikaans seemed to be the primary language for most departments of the government, especially in the army and police. If you wanted to speak English during your national military service, then you had to join the navy or suffer through two years of hell under Afrikaner superiors who were still bearing grudges against the English language and its speakers as late as the 2000s, unless you ended up serving in one of the traditionally English speaking regiments. Though I did not serve during the 1970s or 1980s, I’ve spoken with enough people to understand that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzqbJ2W4T8Q is a reasonably accurate though not sweeping depiction of the way things were. Then the Afrikaners did something interesting… I was told by a former employer that sometime during the 1970s or 1980s, when information technology was beginning to take off, the government recognised English was the language of science and technology, but that was no reason to sit on their asses and bitch about problems like the blacks do today. So, they put together a group of Afrikaner linguists who were tasked to come up with translations for English technical terms and if possible, invent words so that students who did not speak English would not be disadvantaged. As the saying goes, die Boer maak ‘n plan- the Boer makes a plan. If you put a problem in front of these people, they prefer to work out a solution rather than wait like the Somalis for U.N. miracles to fall out of the sky.
On a fundamental level, the Afrikaners of today are the children of conflict. Their mindset, culture, outlook and responses were formed during three centuries of struggles for survival in an extremely dangerous environment where they faced countless existential threats from all directions. As I came to see, understanding this is key to dealing with them, even when they annoy the crap out of me. Ah, those damned Anglo-Boer wars really screwed up some things… At their most basic, the two Anglo-Boer wars were about greed. The British wanted in on the newly found deposits of gold and diamonds, but the Afrikaners who had settled there after they were forced to leave the Cape Colony refused. It started with words, went up a notch to skirmishes, then wars which the British almost turned into outright genocidal campaigns. I was told at school that if the women and children who died in British concentration camps had lived, the Afrikaner population would have been double the size of today’s. Not being a statistician, I don’t know if it’s true. What I do know is that psychological effects of the ethnic cleansing they experienced at the hands of the British are visible to this day. Much as I understand why, some of the things they do frustrate me a lot. I’ve met Afrikaners who evidently know English, but refuse to speak it even when they need the help of a person who doesn’t speak Afrikaans. Another thing they do is speak Afrikaans for hours at a time in front of somebody who doesn’t understand the language, in a clear attempt to exclude that person. As I’ve said about the Apartheid government, it is a huge mistake to push away those who would be your friends when you clearly need all the help you can get. On a certain level they think it’s to help that person learn the language. Well, they’re wrong because quite simply one does not learn a language this way. There have to be means of translation, otherwise the person won’t understand a damned thing. The best example of this are the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Despite countless efforts to decipher them, they were incomprehensible until the Rosetta Stone was found. I don’t speak Afrikaans very well because I went to English-medium schools. As a result, I learned more of the language from friends in a few months of military training than teachers had taught me in years of school, but it’s not of the polite kind if you know what I mean. Therefore, I say very little and listen a hell of a lot when Afrikaners talk because I know it’s pointless asking them to consider my linguistic handicap. Yeah, the Afrikaners are hard to get to know, but I love them. Other people do not…
From what I know, the 7de Laan (Seventh Avenue) soap opera on SABC 2 is the most watched Afrikaans language soapie in the country. Apparently it changed quite a lot over the years. Nowadays it has many black and coloured actors along with some English dialogue. Fair enough, there are black people who speak Afrikaans and certainly most coloureds speak it, but while South Africans often insert Afrikaans expressions when they speak English, some of the black actors on 7de Laan don’t appear to know Afrikaans and the use of English along with some black language or other in what was once an Afrikaans soapie has increased. The Afrikaners I’ve spoken to are not happy with what’s happening, but the SABC is owned by the government and for the most part it does not listen to people, especially if they happen to be white and Afrikaans. The soapie has been moved from its time slot, there was talk of moving it to another SABC channel and even rumours SABC wanted to cancel the show. Again, this didn’t go well with Afrikaners. Many feel these are more attacks on their language and culture, as well as further attempts by the black government to marginalise them. Sadly, there’s more.
I wrote earlier that Afrikaners built a lot of education facilities where teaching is done in Afrikaans. Over the last 20 years or so, a lot of black children were taken out of township schools by their parents and moved to former whites-only schools in order to get a better education from properly qualified teachers. The vast majority of the blacks tend to go to English-medium schools, but these fill up quickly and desperate black parents then try to place them in Afrikaans-medium schools. Only there’s a problem- a lot of the black kids don’t speak Afrikaans and those schools often lack the money and classrooms to bring in English speaking teachers. The blacks immediately start shouting “racism!”, complain to the education department, call the media and in a recent case I heard about, even involve the Economic Freedom Fighters party, which then starts threatening the school and Afrikaner parents with all sorts of nonsense. Just read this article about what happened at the Afrikaans-medium Overvaal Hoërskool (Overvaal High School), and you will see what I’m talking about: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/10-arrested-for-hoerskool-overvaal-protest-20180117 Whites have seen what happens when black children flood predominantly white schools. Speaking from personal experience, parents take their children out of there and in no time the school becomes almost completely black, then it begins to fall apart. Educating a child in the mother tongue is a very good idea. It makes learning and comprehension much easier and subsequently leads to better academic performance. I stand to be corrected, but education in township schools is done in a mixture of English and the black language prevalent in the area. In former whites-only schools, children are taught either in English or Afrikaans, but make no mistake, those children must be able to speak the school’s language of instruction or they will suffer. As I’ve said before, if you want to study at Todai university in Japan, then you had better learn Japanese because you have to adapt to the institution, not the other way around. Of course, the blacks don’t want to hear that. They are black, and if you don’t lay out the red carpet, you’re a racist and they won’t care that you don’t have a red carpet to begin with. Well, it’s not that simple and never has been.
Afrikaners understood the value of their culture and language, so they built institutions to cater for their needs. Twenty-five years into so-called democracy, the black government of South Africa hasn’t done much in this regard. There are very few schools whose medium of instruction is Zulu, Xhosa, Venda or whatever else. Unlike the former Rand Afrikaans University and University of Pretoria, the ANC-led government built no black language universities that I know of, and God knows they’ve had enough time and resources to do it. So what do they do, if they don’t build those things? They take from the white man. Stellenbosch was an Afrikaans-medium university as far as I know, and it didn’t produce idiots. The same goes for Rand Afrikaans University and University of Pretoria, they were fine institutions in the “old days”. What happened there since 1994? The universities were forced to change their medium of instruction to English and after RAU’s name was changed to University of Johannesburg, were flooded by barely literate black students. Hell, even University of Pretoria isn’t called that any more because the ANC changed Pretoria’s name to Tshwane. Over time the number of Afrikaans students dropped markedly, and recently the Tshwane University of Technology announced they were going to make English the primary language of instruction. Apparently that’s been a problem for the Afrikaner students for a few years now, but it’s about to get worse because if this change happens, they will be without support in a high stakes environment with the rest of their lives on the line- all because the ANC found it easier to steal state resources than to do its duty. This will be another tragedy, a nail in the coffin of Afrikanerdom, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. Check out what Tito Mboweni, former governor of the Reserve Bank and current minister of finance had to say about this at https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/tito-mboweni-we-will-regret-phasing-out-afrikaans-at-tuks-20190125 The situation then got worse. Black students began to protest about not receiving some of their money from the NSFAS, which is a government fund that’s supposed to cover some of the costs of tuition, accommodation and food of poor students. Because these damned creatures don’t know how to protest peacefully, the situation became so dangerous that the leadership of Tshwane University of Technology told students to vacate their residences immediately for their own safety! Here’s a very bare bones article. I am almost out of prepaid data for my internet connection, otherwise I’d find the article which also showed pictures of the destruction wrought by blacks upon white students’ facilities and belongings two weeks ago: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-03-06-tut-closes-campuses-students-told-to-vacate-residences-for-their-own-safety/ Forgive me, but it’s like I told you- once blacks enter white schools, things go to shit. Afrikaners who care about more than the latest rugby game are worried. They see how their culture and language are undermined at every turn, how they are vilified and lose bit by bit what was theirs, and how almost nobody stands up for them. So they circle the wagons and repeat the cycle of isolationism because they don’t have other options. As I’ve said before, this is not a winning strategy. But what else can they do?
End of Part 7.
The Southern Wrong Racist
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