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Dan Roodt: Interessant is dit weer 'n Afrikaner wat politiek korrek
probeer wees:
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Roodt exposes himself again
06 February 2005
AN INTERESTING spin-off of life in democratic South Africa has been
the
unmasking of certain high-profile academics who had paraded in a haze
of
pseudo-liberalism during the apartheid years, but who have since shown
us who they really are  institutionalised brains unable to cope with
the country's social evolution.
Of these, Dr Dan Roodt is perhaps the prime exponent (although he is
constantly challenged to the throne by the likes of Professor Hermann
Giliomee). I find his particular brand of deranged intellectual
narcissism sad but also extremely amusing, "Whites needed no help"
(June
30).
It is very telling that Roodt should attempt to question Professor
Makgoba's ability to build a sustained argument when his own eulogy to
colonialism and Afrikaner nationalism is riddled with "flawed logic
and
simplistic argument".
Afrikaners may have pulled themselves from widespread poverty amid
"hostility and discrimination from English-speaking whites" but it
would
be highly disingenuous to claim historical victimhood considering we
trampled on 80% of the population to reach the top.
Roodt's claim that European settlers "stumbled upon Stone Age cultures
Â
without any assets and with no orderly system of land ownership" reads
like a quote from a 1950s history textbook.
Perhaps he borrowed a few lines from the father of "negrology",
Stephen
Smith.
Both gentlemen seem to share a taste for generalisation and an
astounding ignorance of life on this continent, yet dare to comment in
public on what they perceive as "blacks' narcissism and obsession with
their African identity".
It is indeed one of the ironies of this world that a PhD in philosophy
does not guarantee insight.
If it did, Roodt would not be a bigot regurgitating colonial myths
about
Africa and making a fool of himself yet again. Â Wynand Prinsloo [who
obviously thinks he can score some points by kissing ass]
Johannesburg
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Mr. Wynand Prinsloo describes me as an "academic" (Sunday Times 6
February), yet I am far too level-headed and critical of
twentieth-century communism and fascism ever to be offered a post at a
university. I have never even been invited to address an academic
gathering in this country. He accuses me of "being a bigot
regurgitating colonial myths about Africa" and that I rely on Stephen
Smith's 2003 book Negrologie (which we have incidentally just
translated into Afrikaans, to be published soon).
I would like to ask Mr. Prinsloo if he believes the political and
economic collapse of Zimbabwe to be a "colonial myth"? Are the civil
wars in the Congo, the Ivory Coast, as well as the Rwandan, Ethiopian
and Sudanese genocides equally due to "colonial misinformation" about
Africa which is otherwise a model of so-called "good governance"?
Of course not. African failure since independence, despite massive
amounts of external aid as documented by Smith, Robert Guest and
others, is an uncomfortable fact. So is the utter lack of scientific
or technological thought in Africa prior to contact with the West.
I am afraid "the noble savage" is another very Western idea, first
formulated by Rousseau. Mr. Morewane Maisela believes that "both
Afrikaners and the English found ethnic groups living in tranquillity
and harmony", yet in the 1830s the Voortrekkers found the interior
devastated by the Mfecane in which a million people are estimated to
have died. Contemporary Africa is indeed a paradise, but a "paradise
of cruelty" as Stephen Smith calls it. Similarly, the lost idyll of
pre-colonial life was "tranquil" because of ambient death resulting
from tribal wars.
Afrikaners did not "trample on 80% of the population", otherwise there
would not have been so many hospitals, schools and universities built
during the apartheid era and which we can still observe around us with
our very eyes, despite so much government propaganda holding that
South Africa rose miraculously out of a Proustian teacup when the ANC
dipped its Madeleine in it ten years ago.
I have no problem with Mr. Maisela applying ruthless affirmative
action to create a world in which there would be no white managers,
teachers or sportsmen. This was after all what apartheid sought to
achieve, a complete separation of the races. Logically, there is no
difference between apartheid and black consciousness or negrology. It
is a pity that both Verwoerd and Steve Biko got killed before they
were able to talk to one another and devise a system acceptable to
black and white alike. The current system satisfies neither side, as
it will always have to discriminate against whites, yet will never
meet black demands for money and power.
Dan Roodt
Skrywer, uitgewer, en direkteur, PRAAG
epos dan#praag.org
Posbus 3103
Dainfern
2055 Suid-Afrika
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Last but not least some Black racism and myth-making in the same
paper:
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Colonists had evil intentions
06 February 2005
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DAN Roodt's retaliation against Makgoba's essay has a derogatory,
racist
and "Afro-pessimistic" aura.
History informs us that the Europeans did not have civil and organised
intentions when they invaded Africa  rather slavery, torture, murder
and oppression.
Both Afrikaners and the English found ethnic groups living in
tranquillity and harmony.
At least there were no genocides, which have subsequently occurred as
a
result of borders imposed by white colonialists.
"The orderly system of land ownership" praised by Roodt is one of the
factors that encouraged the Anglo-Boer War.
Affirmative action should be executed without fear or apology to serve
the interests of most black South Africans, especially women who
succumbed to brutal situations created by whites who think like Roodt.
You should have left before 1994 with your pessimistic family. Â
Morewane Maisela, Pretoria
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