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Speech by Dr. Corne Mulder MP - Freedom Front spokesperson on Constitutional
Affairs - in the debate on the budget vote of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki in
the National Assembly.
Geagte mnr die Voorsitter,
Afrikaanssprekendes moet my asseblief verskoon, maar die res van toespraak
sal in Engels wees. Daar kom 'n tyd wanneer daar duidelik en reguit gepraat
moet word sodat daar geen onduidelikheid of 'n misverstand sal wees nie.
Vandag is so 'n geleentheid.
I am an Afrikaner. My family came to the continent of Africa in 1685. I
know no other home. I have no family or interests outside Africa. I belong
to a people who has named themselves to their continent, the Afrikaner of
Africa. The language I speak and which I teach my children with pride is
called Afrikaans. I am an Afrikaner and an African. If I have to speak in
racial terms - I am a white African. I am not a European.
I owe my being to the struggle for freedom of Prince William of Orange in
1572 against the Spanish and to those Protestant Huguenots who survived the
slaughter of St. Bartholomew night. I owe my being to the declaration of
hope by Adam Tas in 1706, to the constitutions of the Boer Republics and the
presidencies of Pres. Paul Kruger and Pres. Steyn. In my veins flows the
blood of Afrikaner heroes and guerrilla fighters like genls Koos de la Rey,.
Christian De Wet, and Danie Theron. I am formed by the memory of the last
hours of the Afrikaner rebel Jopie Fourie who was executed in prison in 1914
by fellow Afrikaner traitors. I am the grandchild of Kmdt. Pieter Mulder
who took up arms against his own brother in 1914 when his brother did not
honor the blood oath they swore in 1902 . An oath to take up arms against the
British at the first opportunity to regain their freedom. In my soul lives
the ideals and cries for freedom of 26 000 Afrikaner women and children -
those who died in British Concentration camps. Those who inspired their men
to fight on, to never surrender. May their suffering and pain, their anguish
and despair not have been in vain.
The Freedom Front came to this Parliament in 1994 with a clear and concise
mandate. 4We came to this Parliament with a mandate on Afrikaner self-
determination and the ideal of an Afrikaner Volkstaat. The Afrikaner people
and the broader white community in South Africa were told and warned by
consecutive governments in the past of the danger and implications of
simplistic majority rule. NP leaders at the time, with the help and the
blackmail of big business convinced whites in the 1992 referendum to accept
reform. The assurance was given that after the negotiation process we will
have power sharing - that the whites and other minorities will lose nothing,
but that blacks will be allowed to enjoy the same rights and will have the
same opportunities. We would have created heaven on earth. It was also made
clear that there will be all kinds of checks and balances. Many Afrikaners
and other whites warned against this naïve approach. They were ridiculed and
laughed at.
The FF entered into the negotiations with the ANC in the second half of 1993
. We entered into negotiations with the organization who was planting limpet
mines in Wimpy bars and who were murdering and killing our farmers and their
workers with landmines. These acts were done by the very same people who
are now applying for amnesty for callous crimes of terrorism like the
Pretoria Car bomb, necklessing and many other acts. It was you Mr. Deputy
President, who convinced me and others that the ANC can be trusted during
those negotiations. That we can make a new beginning together. It was you
that convinced me that you and the ANC were serious in addressing the ideals
and aspiration of the Afrikaner people. Those were your precise words - On
23 April 1994 - 3 days before the election we signed a historical accord on
Afrikaner self-determination. Mr. Deputy President you signed that accord on
behalve of the ANC. Clause 1 of that accord states and I quote: �The parties
represented by these delegations record the following agreement - The parties
agree to address, through a process of negotiations, the idea of Afrikaner
self-determination, including the concept of a Volkstaat.�
Against all odds, even against having received death threats from our own
people and with failed assassination attempts we convinced the Afrikaner and
white community to abandon the option of armed resistance, violence and
insurrection. We convinced them to trust us and to opt for a peaceful
constitutional option by participating, in the 1994 election. We convinced
them to buy into a constitutional process, a process which would have
addressed their legitimate ideals and aspirations. We did this not only
because we believed it was in the best interest of the Afrikaner, but we also
believed it was in the best interests of the country and all the people as a
whole.
After completion of negotiations on the present constitution, it quickly
became abundantly clear that Afrikaners were not merely going to be in the
same position and that blacks and everyone else will also have access to the
same opportunities. It became quite clear that nothing would come of the so-
called checks and balances. After the withdrawal of the NP form the GNU it
further became clear that the gimmick of a GNU , based on the concept of
power sharing, which was in any way only suppose to last 5 years, meant
nothing. What did FF do during this whole process ? We did not engage the
ANC in a negative or aggressive manner. No, we offered constructive
engagement - and a hand of friendship. In our written proposals during
negotiations with the ANC, we clearly said what we can do and are prepared to
do to assist all South Africans and the government to develop our continent.
That is why we were prepared to sent farmers, not to Australia or Canada, but
to Mozambique, Angola and Zaire. It is now more than two years after the
adoption of the new constitution. Afrikaner self-determination and the
concept of an Afrikaner Volkstaat have not been addressed at all.
It is now clear to us that black empowerment and affirmative action are
merely guises to obtain Afrikaner disempowerment. You are determined to
disempower the Afrikaner and whites in all respects. You have already taken
our freedom. The formidable American Indian Leader - Red Cloud once said of
white Americans - �They made us many promises, more than I can remember - but
they never kept but one - they promised to take our land and they took it.�
In the same vain I want to say to this ANC government - �You made us and
other minorities many promises, more than I can remember - but you never kept
but one - you promised to disempower the Afrikaner and to take away our
freedom - and you did.� You are already busy destroying our language, our
culture, our traditions, and our way of life. Today it is rugby and our
schools, tomorrow it will be our universities, then it will be our churches
and history. Enough is enough - if this ANC government wants confrontation,
so be it, we are ready to take up that challenge - enough is enough. The
time has finally come for all Afrikaners and the broader community out there
to pick up their heads with pride. It is time to look the world and this
ANC / SACP government squarely in the eye. We have had enough of the one
sided attacks of the Truth commission and the reports of the ANCBC. (African
National Congress Broadcasting Corporation.)
The Afrikaner people has lost their freedom - the question which now arises
is whether this people will be part of the solution or part of the problem.
We in the FF and the Afrikaner at large would prefer to be part of the
solution, but there should be no doubt that if the Afrikaner people is not
free there will be no peace or stability. The economy needs stability to
grow. For GEAR to succeed you need peace and stability. I am saying this in
exactly the same way today as all the business people and the media deemed it
necessary to warn voters about the so-called consequences of a No-vote in the
1992 referendum. This is not a threat. I am merely stating a fact. Self-
determination and the quest for freedom is a reality of the modern world
today, as never before. One either has to accommodate these ideals for those
who feel strongly about it, as the Afrikaner people do, or pay the price for
underestimating it.
Today we are experiencing what L.H. Gann and Peter Duigan wrote in their
book, and I quote: �When a party loses power in a democracy, it does not have
its basic rights endangered, whereas ethnic groups that lose political power,
often lose everything else as well.�
Those Afrikaner leaders who gave our freedom away, have all left the
political scene for good. The time has now come for us, for this generation
and our youth to regain our freedom and we dont have to do this to the
detriment of any other South African. The first step for Afrikaners is to go
to the polls in 1999 and to vote against this ANC/SACP government. It is this
government that is not interested in the hand of friendship that we extended
to them. It is this government that is keeping your freedom from you.
Last Friday in this very House Mr. Deputy President you quoted the African-
American poet, Langston Hughes when he wrote - �what happens to a dream
deferred ?� and his conclusion was that it EXPLODES.
I want to conclude with a quote by the chairperson of the FF in this House
earlier this year. �In the future of South Africa, there shall be Afrikaner
self-determination and a national home for the Afrikaner, whether the
government of the day agrees with it or not. The government of the day cannot
stop it, they can only delay it - or decide to make it part of the solution.
Surely if any organization should know this, the ANC should know this from
their own history.�
The time has come for the ANC to be bold - to make the necessary declaration
and to operationalise section 235 of the constitution. The freedom struggle
that we have begun will continue until we succeed. We will be free again.
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| Re: Corne Mulder se toespraak [boodskap #15654 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #15577] |
Mon, 08 June 1998 00:00  |
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On Fri, 05 Jun 1998 10:41:15 GMT, oos...@geocities.com wrote:
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En die volgende dag toe vang hulle die drie regses wat ammunisie by
die militere basis by Tempe gesteel het en die twee soldate vermoor
het wat n ammunisie-voertuig bestuur het.
Hulle sit nou in die tronk en wag hulle verhoor af.
Corne Mulder is op n tyd gevra: "Wat verkies jy, 'n nie rassige SA wat
uitstekend deur 'n oorwegend swart regering bestuur word of 'n wit
Afrikaner staat wat swak deur Afrikaners bestuur word."
Sy antwoord was: "Die Afrikaner staat."
Dit se baie.
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