‘Hulle het haar stukkend geskeur. As my hond besig was om my kind te
byt, sal ek nie aan die hond kan doen wat hulle aan my vrou gedoen het
nie,” het die man van ’n verkragtingslagoffer gistermiddag vertel.
Die 34-jarige vrou van Witfield in Boksburg aan die Oos-Rand was
eergisteroggend alleen tuis toe vier werkers wat besig was om ’n
grasdak op te sit, haar glo oorval het.
Sy het hul apies in ’n hok langs die oprit van die huis gaan kos gee
en daarna weer die huis binnegegaan en haarself toegesluit. Die
werkers was buite langs die oprit besig om die dak op te sit.
“Die voorman van die vier het so 12:00 se kant kom klop en vra sy moet
iets kom kyk. Toe sy die deur oopmaak het al vier haar gegryp,” het
die slagoffer se tannie gister by die huis vertel.
“Hulle het haar met draadhangers vasgebind en met ’n afgebreekte mes
in die nek gesteek en geslaan. Hulle wou geld hê en dan druk hulle hul
vingers in haar mond en sleep haar aan haar wang en kakebeen deur die
huis. Van kamer na kamer.
“Hulle het haar arm stukkend gebyt soos sy haarself probeer beskerm
het. Haar bene is stukkend en blou, haar oor bloei en sy kan nie mooi
uit die een oog sien nie,” het sy vertel.
Die vier mans het haar glo in die badkamer verkrag en toe verder deur
die huis gesleep.
“In ’n stadium moes een van hulle die redial-knoppie op ons
huistelefoon gedruk het. Toe ek die oproep ontvang en niemand praat
nie, het ek geweet daar is groot fout by die huis. Ek het huis toe
gejaag en my bakkie voor die hek gekry.
“Hulle het probeer wegjaag, maar het die bakkie laat vrek,” vertel die
man.
Die “voorman” het glo uitgespring, waarna die man hom gejaag en om die
hoek vasgekeer het. Hy het hom terug huis toe geneem en aan ’n paal
vasgebind waar die polisie hom kom haal het.
“Ek het toe eers gesien wat hulle aan my vrou gedoen het, maar was net
dankbaar dat sy nog leef.”
Hy het 10111 gebel, ’n voorvalnommer gekry en meer as twee uur op die
polisie gewag.
Intussen is sy vrou na die Roseacres-kliniek in Primrose, Germiston,
geneem.
Lede van die Boksburg-Noord-polisie het die ander drie verdagtes
gister in die vroeë oggendure in hegtenis geneem, het konst. Cathy
Meyer, polisiewoordvoerder, gesê.
Die mans verskyn na verwagting vandag in die Boksburg-landdroshof.
Twee dae nadat hy aan ’n superintendent van die polisie gesê het die
polisie gaan eers op die gemeenskap se klagtes ag slaan as iets ergs
gebeur, is ’n man van Groot Marico baie erg beseer toe hy en sy vrou
met ’n byl in hul plaashuis aangeval is.
Mnr. Ben von Brandis (54), ’n leiklipgroefeienaar van Broekmansfontein
by Rietvaly, en sy vrou, Gail (50), het geslaap toe hulle gister
omstreeks 04:00 deur drie mans in hul slaapkamer oorval is.
Insp. Sam Tselanyane, polisiewoordvoerder in Noordwes, sê die mans,
van wie twee klapmusse gedra het, het ingekom deur die slot van die
veiligheidshek by die voordeur oop te breek.
Hulle het geld gevra.
Volgens Tselanyane het een van die mans mev. Von Brandis gegryp en
gesê hy gaan haar verkrag. “Hy het haar nagklere probeer uittrek, maar
kon dit nie regkry nie.
“Hy het toe warm plastiek op haar bene gedrup. Sy het met die
aanvaller gestoei en hy het haar eetkamer toe gevat waar hy die
telefoondrade afgesny het. Hy het haar probeer versmoor deur ’n lap
oor haar gesig te druk.”
Daarna het hy haar hande met die telefoondrade vasgebind.
Intussen het die ander twee aanvallers mnr. Von Brandis met ’n byl in
die slaapkamer aangeval.
Mev. Von Brandis het ontsnap en in die tuin gaan wegkruip.
Mnr. Barend von Brandis, een van die egpaar se seuns, sê die die
huishouding is bekend aan die aanvallers, want hulle wou weet waar sy
broer, Jacques, wat op die plaas woon, was. Hy was nie dié nag tuis
nie.
Die aanvallers het die kluis uit die kas in die kamer gehaal, maar kon
dit nie oopkry nie. Hulle het met die egpaar se Mercedes-Benz probeer
vlug, maar die veiligheidstelsel is geaktiveer. Hulle het toe die
ligte Hyundai-vragmotor gevat, die kluis met sowat R12000 kontant in
agterop gelaai en daarmee en ’n .22 Bruno-geweer gevlug.
’n Boer het die voertuig om 07:30 verlate op die Rosmincol-gruispad
sowat 2km buite Koster gekry.
Mev. Von Brandis is na die bure vir hulp.
Mnr. Von Brandis is met ernstige kopbeserings in die Zee-rust-
hospitaal opgeneem en gistermiddag na die waakeenheid van die Netcare
Ferncrest-hospitaal in Rustenburg oorgeplaas.
Mnr. Danie Conradie, ’n buurman van die Von Brandisse, sê ’n
aangrensende plakkerskamp is die oorsaak van baie probleme in die
omgewing. Talle werkers by die leiklipgroewe in die omgewing woon
daar, maar dit is indringers van buite wat probleme veroorsaak. Hy
beraam dat miljoene rande se skade al deur veral diefstal en
veediefstal gely is.
Na verneem word,val klagte by die polisie op dowe ore. Soms is die
verskoning dat voertuie nie beskikbaar is nie. En klaers kry nie
saaknommers nie.
Ene supt. Seboco van die polisie se provinsiale hoofkantoor in
Potchefstroom het Dinsdag glo op die Von Brandis-plaas met 11 boere
van die omgewing oor hul klagtes oor die polisie gepraat.
" ’n Onlangse ondersoek in Brittanje het aan die lig gebring ongeveer
60% van alle Britte weet nie wat Auschwitz is nie. ’n Kwart van die
Britse jeug dink Hitler was die leier van ’n popgroep en Auschwitz ’n
pretpark. Is die res van die wêreld veel wyser? "
" Is die res van die wêreld veel wyser " : Ek dink die gemiddelde
Afrikaner sal wel weet wat Auschwitz is, en ons jeug wie Hitler was.
As ek dit reg het vaar Afrikaanse studente al vir jare beter in
matriek/graad-12 as Engelse Suid-Afrikaners. En dan was dit die Britte
wat die kommunistiese/terroristiese ANC gefinansier en gehuisves het
in Londen, en massas liberale Engelse in Suid-Afrika met hul
sentimentele uitkyk wat die land gebring het waar hy nou is.
Harry Schwarz is vandag (Vrydag) oorlede. Hy is een van talle Jode wat
die Afrikanerdom in die wiele gery het en as 'n 'onlangse' immigrant
moes hy eerder dankbaar gewees het vir wat die Afrikaner in Suid
Afrika bereik het as om sy liberale idees rond te slinger wat tot die
gemors waarin ons nou in is sou volg. Alhoewel sommige Jode tot
Afrikaners sou ontwikkel, het 'n groot aantal Jode hulself as vyand
van die Afrikaner bevestig en hulself tot die kommunistiese en
terroristiese ANC en SAKP gewend. Die Jodedom in Suid-Afrika is maar
'n klein deel van die bevolking maar tog oefen hulle buitensporig baie
mag uit.
"Schwarz het in 1934 saam met sy ma en jonger broer in Suid-Afrika
aangekom. Sy pa is kort vantevore na dié land nadat hy nie in
Nederland, Frankryk of Brittanje 'n verblyfpermit kon kry nie."
I am sure that the large majority of whites, Afrikaans or English-
speaking, would agree that South Africa under ANC rule has become a
nightmarish, third-world hell-hole, replete with uneducated tin-pot
megalomaniacs screaming down the roads in blue-light convoys, often
mowing down innocent pedestrians, corruption, anarchy, decaying
infrastructure, rubbish in the streets, heretofore unknown levels of
violent crime, as well as the quasi-religion of state racism, known as
transformation (a.k.a. ethnic cleansing) aimed against whites in the
form of affirmative action and BEE. This black-on-white racism has
reached such endemic proportions that Eskom, the state electricity
supplier, is importing black Americans to fill posts at Eskom to sit
and twiddle their thumbs, rather than deigning to appoint a white
South African citizen.
The mistake many whites made with the coming of South Africa’s so-
called democracy in 1994, was to delude ourselves into believing that
we were somehow different to all other African hell-holes. We were
sadly mistaken, however. The ANC regime is not different at all. It
rather has everything in common with Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF. The
deterioration of a formerly orderly and prosperous country loudly
attests to this.
Given the above African reality, self-determination or emigration is
the only way of whites to avoid either a Zimabwe situation, or even a
Rwanda-type genocide. More than a million whites have left, but what
about those who cannot emigrate? Self-determination can also include
an independent country, but doesn’t have to do so. The Basques and
Catalans in Spain are an example of peoples with a large degree of
self-determination, but without an independent country. Section 235 of
South Africa’s constitution does make provision for self-determination
by ethnic groups. Up to now, the quest for self-determination amongst
whites has been almost exclusively driven by Afrikaners. Praag, the
Pro-Afrikaans Action Group, is one of the Afrikaner-organizations
working towards self-determination.
Although Praag is by definition an Afrikaans organization, it is also
a fact that there are significant numbers of English speakers that
support us, or perhaps are united in their opposition to the racist
and criminal ANC regime. This piece was prompted by one of the regular
contributors to the comments section of the Praag site, who asked
questions like:
Who are the Afrikaners?
What is the role of English-speaking whites in any effort towards self-
determination? (I’m going to abbreviate English-speaking whites as
ESWs in the rest of this piece.)
The first question is the easier one to answer, although it is
admittedly not quite that easy in all cases. I will use Wikipedia’s
definition:
Afrikaners or Boers are an Afrikaans speaking ethnic group in Southern
Africa. They are mainly of northwestern European descent (mostly
Dutch, German and French ancestry), but their native tongue is
Afrikaans, a language closely related to Dutch.
Note that there is a clear mention of ethnicity in the above
definition (once again: it isn’t my own definition.) Ethnicity is PC-
speak for “white.” In other words: Afrikaners are white, Afrikaans-
speaking descendants of European settlers. Politically correct people
and liberals may not like a national definition in terms of race, but
it is a fact, just like it goes without saying that a true Irishman is
a white inhabitant of an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. For
those who wonder how to define a white person, I refer them to the ANC
regime. Please ask the Afro-fascists of the ANC how they decide
against whom to discriminate when it comes to affirmative action. You
could even ask a four-year-old, before the adults teach him or her to
start lying about the obvious.
Whilst we’re on the topic, I may as well grasp the nettle of the
coloured question too. In certain circles, for example the liberal
Afrikaans-speaking media, it is considered politically correct to
group Afrikaans-speaking coloureds with Afrikaners and to pretend we
somehow form one ethnic group. One particular media group, Naspers,
with has gone as far as to even invent an absurd name for this
combination: the so-called “Afrikaanses” (sic). This is the equivalent
of pretending white Americans and Mexicans are one nation, and calling
them: “Amerexicans” or something similar. However, the interesting
thing is that this is very much an extremely tiny minority’s opinion,
and only the most whisky-soaked Naspers journalist would even consider
taking this seriously. Most coloured intellectuals would not see
themselves as Afrikaners at all.
For example: the coloured academic (to any American readers:
“coloured” in South Africa refers to mixed-race people, mostly of
Malay, Khoisan and white ancestry), professor Jonathan Jansen, goes as
far as to deny that there is even an Afrikaner nation at all, by which
he bizarrely seems to suggest approximately 3 million Afrikaners all
suffer from the same delusion, as opposed to Jansen’s own paranoid
delusions. When the formerly Afrikaans-speaking and formerly coloured
University of the Western Cape was “democratized” in 1994, they wasted
no time in getting rid of Afrikaans. With few exceptions, Afrikaans
music, culture, academia and commerce are driven by Afrikaners, not
coloureds. Coloured intellectuals are almost united in their
preference for English. Whilst I don’t pretend to speak for the
coloured community, American-style gangsta culture and hip-hop music
seems to hold a bigger appeal to many of them, than does the Afrikaner
culture.
Things aren’t all that simple as saying Afrikaners speak Afrikaans,
adhere to an Afrikaner culture and are white, however. Many Afrikaners
have intermarried with English-speaking whites. A good example of this
is the popular Afrikaner singer Steve Hofmeyr, who, in spite of being
passionate about the language, nevertheless married an English wife
and is raising his children in English. In addition, some Afrikaners
have deliberately chosen to abandon Afrikaans and have voluntarily
become English-speaking. A good example of this is the Afrikaner
actress, Charlize Theron, who these days sports a pretty passable
Californian twang.
Is Charlize still an Afrikaner?
The above logically leads to the second question: what, if any, role
is there for ESWs if and when Afrikaners achieve self-determination?
I am not going to dwell on the Anglo-Boer War and the remaining
bitterness still being felt in some circles towards the English-
speakers. As far as I am concerned, both the Afrikaners and ESWs are
currently in the same boat, and should be united against a common
enemy, rather than dwelling on the past: the racist ANC regime and its
criminal accomplices (if not the ANC’s criminal officials and office
bearers.)
One reality in terms of most ESWs is that there is not such a clear
sense of a national identity among ESWs. I’ve yet to hear an ESW
describe himself as anything but a South African. However, most sane
realists realize by now that there is in fact no such a thing as a
South African nation, especially not if you’re white. To call yourself
a South African is therefore pretty vague and to my mind an
unsatisfactory description. The ANC regime constantly makes it
abundantly clear that whites are, in Thabo Mbeki’s immortal words,
“settlers who have yet to depart” or “colonialists of a special kind.”
If there is a South African nation, as opposed to a geographical area,
it is definitely uniformly black, with very little room for whites.
Perhaps because most ESWs lack a separate national identity, it will
of necessity have to be Afrikaners who will lead our own struggle,
similar to the ANC’s, to achieve self-determination. Except for a few
ESWs who think an independent Western Cape is a good idea, I detect
very little separatist thinking amongst ESWs. As for the question as
to whether Afrikaners will welcome only Afrikaners into the fold,
should we achieve self-determination: there’s no simple answer. I once
again refer to the example of Steve Hofmeyr’s children. Are they
Afrikaners? Do we do a language test and grant citizenship in an
Afrikaner republic to Steve on the basis of that, but not his kids?
Another question is whether ESWs would like to associate themselves
with Afrikaners, even if offered the opportunity.
It is a fact that ESWs have historically been of a much more liberal
persuasion than most Afrikaners. Helen Suzman, with her almost
exclusively ESW and Jewish constituency in Johannesburg’s leafy
suburbs, was for years the sole liberal member of parliament. Would
liberal, northern-suburbs ESWs want to have anything to do with the
Afrikaners at all, or are they happy to rearrange the deck chairs on
the South African Titanic and flee back to London when the chips are
down?
On the other hand, it is a fact that ESWs are for reasons of ethnicity
and intermarriage the closest relations Afrikaners have in Southern
Africa. A lot of ESWs no longer have any British roots or relatives.
Afrikaners have much more in common with ESWs than with Zulus (or
Mongolians), for that matter. A large proportion of the ESWs are
equally as disillusioned with the so-called Rainbow Nation as
Afrikaners are. They also suffer the same racist discrimination at the
hands of the ANC regime as Afrikaners do. Do Afrikaners abandon the
ESWs if Rwanda’s genocide becomes South Africa’s reality too?
If I am really pressed to provide a straight answer as to whether I
think Afrikaners should allow ESWs to participate in Afrikaners’ self-
determination, and knowing full well many ESWs would have political,
cultural and linguistic objections, I would have to say a qualified
yes.
One thing that I think most Afrikaners striving for self-determination
agree upon, is that our language and culture are completely non-
negotiable. If there is an independent Afrikaner Authority, similar to
the Palestinian Authority, or an independent Afrikaner state,
Afrikaans will be its sole official language. Nobody wants to control
what languages people speak behind closed doors, but all government
functions and all state broadcasting will for example be in Afrikaans,
finish & klaar. There is in this sense no difference between
Afrikaners, the Germans and the French, who also wouldn’t dream of
having other languages as their official language. This in and of
itself may discourage many ESWs from joining the Afrikaners’ cause.
Many of them may rather consider English-speaking countries such as
Australia or the UK.
Does that leave ESWs as mere potential immigrants? I agree with Dr Dan
Roodt, the leader of Praag, when he says that any independent
Afrikaner Authority or Afrikaner state should apply the same
immigration criteria as European countries. Afrikaners, as defined by
the definition elsewhere in this document, should in my opinion
automatically qualify for citizenship. Anybody else would be free to
apply for citizenship, subject to an oath of loyalty and to other
criteria like skills, lack of a criminal record, health, education, a
waiting period and a language test. All of these are nothing sinister
and are in fact exactly the kind of criteria countries like the UK and
Germany would apply to prospective immigrants.
I would personally also say there is a case to be made for extending a
once-off offer of asylum or refugee status to ESWs who suffer from
racist persecution and crime at the hands of the ANC regime.
Afrikaners could certainly not stand idly by if, God forbid, South
Africa threatens to become another Rwanda and our ESW brothers are
about to suffer a genocide. This should, however, be subject to the
understanding that any Afrikaner self-determination or independent
state would be of an Afrikaner nature in terms of language and
culture, and that refugees would be expected to assimilate and adopt
the Afrikaner culture.
The above will admittedly not appeal to all ESWs, but then they are
free to savour the many delights Africa and the so-called Rainbow
Nation have in store for those of an unfashionable shade of
pigmentation.
Die man kom staan voor my. Hy het handskoene aan en ek sien die blink
loop van sy vuurwapen waar hy dit voor my gesig hou en hoor hom sê dat
hy my gaan “naai” en my gaan “doodmaak.”
Maties is soos Tuks deur Afrikaner geld en
harde werk gebring tot waar hul vandag is.
Dan kan mens mos sê dat die wêreld demografie
daarop dui dat Mandarin die wêreldtaal moet
wees en 'selfhelp' kulture maar moet voortveg
terwyl die Chinese kultuur oormag moet hê.
Selfbeskikking van lande is mos dan globale
apartheid...
Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:01:37 +0100: Ruud Harmsen : in
> nl.taal:
>
>> http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/a-reclassifica tion-of-the-dutch-language/
>
> ===
> There is quite a bit of confusion about what is the pure Brabants and
> what is Brabants Dutch, but the key is intelligibility. Brabants Dutch
> is easily comprehensible to a Standard Dutch speaker and the real
> Brabants is not at all.
> /===
>
> Datzelfde verschijnsel heb je bij ALLE dialecten in een moderne
> maatschappij met een standaardtaal die een sterke positie heeft.
> Dat is nou net wat de auteur niet snapt waardoor hij de plank keer op
> keer volkomen misslaat.
Het is mij niet duidelijk waarom een regionaal lect soms een "dialect"
genoemd wordt, en een andere keer een "taal"
Ik meende dat "Nederlands" een kunstmatige taal is die als standaard
dient voor Nederland en Noord-Belgie. Het is een soort van compromis,
niet in het bijzonder gebaseerd op een of ander dialect, alhoewel het
het dichtst staat bij de Nederfrankische groep
Maar in dit verhaal schijnt met "Dutch" iets anders bedoeld te worden;
het lijkt erop dat daarmee de dialecten bedoeld worden die met name in
het Randstad gebied gesproken worden. Maar dat is dus een andere
definitie dan wat met "Nederlands" bedoeld wordt Bovendien is er in die
streek altijd een grote immigratie geweest, met name in de grote steden,
zodat afhankelijk van tijd en plaats er nogal wat variatie is.
Kortom wat is in dit verhaal eigenlijk een "taal"? Bedoelen we met een
"taal" een standaard taal zoals het Nederlands? Of bedoelen we daarmee
een groep van onderling verwante dialecten, zoals Nedersaksisch, of
Nederfrankisch, of Ripuarisch? Wanneer noemen we iets een "dialect", en
wanneer is het een "taal"?
>
> ===
> A study noted that Dutch speakers have 59% intelligibility of
> Afrikaans (Gooskens 2005), [...]
> /===
> Geschreven of gesproken? Dat maakt een erorm verschil. Geschreven kan
> ik voor 98% gewoon lezen, zonder ooit enige voorafgaande scholing.
>
> Ander voorbeeld: geschreven Portugees is voor een Spaanstalige
> moeiteloos te lezen, maar de gesproken taal verstaan is iets heel
> anders. Zelf kan ik Spaans ook vrij vlot lezen, maar verstaan vind ik
> erg moeilijk.
>
> De aangehaalde Gooskens zal wel Charlotte Gooskens zijn? (leert Google
> mij):
> http://www.let.rug.nl/gooskens/
> http://www.let.rug.nl/gooskens/?p=presentations
>
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