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By Anton Barnard of SAmizdat blog.
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.
Source: SAmizdat Blog
http://antonbarnard.praag.co.za/?p=1292
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