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Dear PRAAG supporter,

Those of you who have not yet read my latest column written today, should do so, here:

The WAR on Woolworths and what it means

If you have been to South Africa, you will know that Woolworths is an upmarket chain store selling fairly good clothes and food under their own brand, very much like the Marks & Spencer chain in the United Kingdom. You can also buy all sorts of organically grown products there – at a price.

Over the past week, Woolworths has been in the news for publishing job advertisements saying “For blacks only”. That provided the spark for our current campaign against their affirmative action programme, with one or two other organisations and trade unions jumping on the bandwagon.

I am quite amazed by the good response on Facebook and Twitter. On Woolworths’s Facebook page there were more than 2 000 comments of irate white shoppers pledging to never support them again. Afterwards the company locked its Facebook wall. It is the first time that I have seen such a tremendous response and almost spontaneous boycott spirit taking shape.

The combination of the ANC government and Big Business colluding on excluding whites from jobs has almost succeeded in making second-class citizens and mere survivors of us all. I know of so many middle-class families who are struggling as a result with the husbands unable to find work as almost no-one wants to employ a white male anymore.

How this will all work out, we will find out. But what I find heartening is that there is such a tremendous sense of solidarity suddenly among white South Africans, as I mention at the start of my column. Also recently I was watching a French TV discussion with author Richard Millet talking about his two latest books, one of which is entitled “Antiracism, a literary terror”. His tremendous pessimism – he spoke of his “despair” – struck me, as well as the other more politically correct members of the panel who already considered themselves a minority in their own country!

Millet referred to being “the only white at six in the evening in the subway at Châtelet-Les-Halles”. To other members of the French talk show, that did not matter as “those people were Frenchmen too, even if they were black or Arab”. However, as we can see from our experience as a minority that has lost power in our own country, it does not work that way. As soon as one is outnumbered at the ballot box, so-called affirmative action becomes the national ideology and both the state and major corporations deem the employment of whites undesirable. For them it is not even about “filling quotas” according to demographic percentages, but about impoverishing us so that we should finally sink to their third-world level of income and social existence. Somehow, the slightest remaining pocket of white or Western excellence is seen as an affront to their own dignity and sense of “being in power”.

Although many people seem to have written us off, the four million white people here are increasingly showing a solidarity and a zest for meeting the challenge of creating something new, a new economy and lifestyle away from governmental and corporate strictures. People are talking about distributing produce directly from our farmers to consumers, to bypass the supermarket chains and of setting up small banks all over the country in order to regain control of our capital that is languishing in the big four banks, with more or less the same employment policies as Woolworths.

The big irony is that we are paying taxes, interest and banking fees so that we may be excluded from the job market and even from having our own businesses, thereby funding our own ultimate demise. This has to stop. Fortunately many people are starting to see it that way.

In many towns, people are protesting the corruption and profligacy of the ANC’s municipal officials and politicians by refusing to pay local taxes. The indefatigable Mr. Jaap Kelder, a good friend and comrade, is fighting the municipalities in the courts and through his national network of ratepayers’ associations, so we are giving them a good run for their money.

A few months ago I started being more active on Twitter and my account has now grown to 2 500 followers. On Facebook I have another 6 500 people or so and all our messages and links are distributed through other networks as well so that we do not really need the traditional media anymore, even though I still try to get articles and letters into the major newspapers. This week I published a critical letter in the daily Beeld in reply to the affirmative action principal of the University of the Free State, Jonathan Jansen, who is enforcing diversity on his campus and even made an ideological course on multiculturalism mandatory for all students. Our two websites in English and Afrikaans now get as much traffic as some of the second-tier newspapers so being in the mainstream media or on radio keeps us in the public eye, but we could well do without it too. I firmly believe that there will come a time in South Africa when there will be a clampdown on dissident voices and a lot of people will be banned from the mainstream media. By that time we will hopefully be so strong on the internet that we would not even notice being excluded from the traditional media.

I also serve on the so-called Strategy Committee for the Afrikaner people that we formed a year ago. Even though our work is more or less confidential, we are going to have an invitation-only conference for 200 people in November where we will finally decide on a strategy going forward and which will most probably include elements of self-determination.

All of this is very exciting but time-consuming, sometimes even exhausting. There are endless meetings, discussions and planning sessions. But we have no choice, we must keep up the good fight.

As so many people have argued, our fight will ultimately be the fight of the whole European and North American world. I must write to Monsieur Millet in Paris to tell him that he need not despair so much. There are four million white Africans down here and another million or so expats who are ready to show the way!

Thanks once again for your loyal support and interest in our cause.

With kind regards,

Dan Roodt

Director, Pro-Afrikaner Action Group (PRAAG)

Anti-white measures stepped up in South Africa

Partial view of the Afrikaans language monument at Paarl, Western Cape

Everyone knows the cliché about the frog being heated up slowly in water. Instead of jumping out of the pot, he becomes so used to it that he eventually boils to death. So many people have already used this metaphor for South Africa’s whites that it feels almost like plagiarism just to mention it.

However, last week’s mammoth conference by the ruling ANC in Midrand again gave me the idea that we are all being brainwashed into accepting the unacceptable: that we may lose our farms, property and equal rights simply because we are white.

During his opening speech, the ANC leader Jacob Zuma flew into a rage against “white men” who supposedly “still control the economy”. We reported on the ANC conference on www.praag.org, which led to a few altercations with black South Africans on Twitter.

White men are already self-employed

What blacks do not seem to understand is that white men no longer pose any kind of competition in the job market to them. All the banks and major corporations in South Africa follow the government’s affirmative-action rules to the letter. They are even eager to get rid of their white employees, to the extent that 75% of white men over fifty are already self-employed, eking out a measly living by doing odd jobs on their computers. South Africa is crying out for engineers, but many white engineers are sitting at home selling pet food on the internet or running gasoline stations. If they are still allowed to get gasoline franchises from the oil companies who have also excluded whites from doing that!

I came upon another statistic about white South African men: In 2006, one out of every four, of all ages, was self-employed. In short, while the ANC was ranting against white males at their conference, there were hardly any left in formal employment. Tens of thousands of young white men have already left the country and are working overseas, because no corporation would employ them in South Africa, let alone the government or municipalities where it is almost unheard of for any white person to be offered a job, except as cleaning staff.

Yes, this is the most bizarre effect of South African affirmative action, that well-educated but impoverished whites are now so desperate for an income that they will clean the floors and toilets for black office staff. I spoke to an alderman in the town of Brits, north west of Johannesburg, and she confirmed that the cleaning staff of the municipality was all white, employed as a “special favour” to the local white community. East of Johannesburg, in the horrible, Stalinist “megacity” of Ekurhuleni, a similar arrangement is taking place whereby whites are only employed to do menial labour. This is a way of boosting the self-esteem of the profligate black municipal potentates who regularly make the news because of corruption, unwarranted expenditure on luxury hotels and overseas conferences, and so on.

Taking the fight to the courts

As I am writing this, I am still awaiting the US Supreme Court decision on Fisher v. the University of Texas on affirmative action. Somehow it was not handed down last week, being overshadowed by the news of the Court’s decision on Obamacare. The Fisher decision, although important for the United States, might have a knock-on effect worldwide. South African universities practise the same kind of exclusion of white students on racial grounds, except far more radically. In some faculties, such as veterinarian science at the University of Pretoria, whites are banned altogether. In medicine, they are only allowed a quota of 10% of admissions, regardless of academic merit.

What astounds me, is why we have not had more court challenges of affirmative action and anti-white discrimination generally, in South Africa. The still relatively independent South African courts are often criticised by the ANC, so we should litigate while we still can, following all the US examples of whites who have successfully sued against race preferences.

Should we ‘prepare for war’?

However, many people believe that we are not far from even more violence than we are already experiencing. The Transvaal Agricultural Union recently asked whether farmers should “prepare for war”, given the belligerent rhetoric coming from many ANC politicians. The radical mood of the ANC and especially its militant, communist youth wing, suggests that we could see farm invasions like in Zimbabwe, with whites simply chased off their property within the next year or two, or even earlier. In a widely publicised statement, ANC Youth leader Ronald Lamola said in Durban ten days ago, about taking the land of whites: “We need an act as forceful as war to bring it back to the Africans.”

The ANC closed last week’s “policy conference” with the entire throng singing “bring me my machine gun” in Zulu, led by President Jacob Zuma, as usual.

That FW de Klerk happened to hand the ANC’s militia, Umkhonto we Sizwe, all 500 000 automatic weapons in the country’s arsenal in 1994, was the gravest error of judgement ever and a constant worry to us all.

So amid all this uncertainty and radical talk from the government, we must continue to fight for what is right, organise and defend ourselves.

Spread the message

I want to ask you, our overseas supporters, to please spread the word of our plight. Read the posts on our website and stay informed about the developing conflict in South Africa.
We are trying to keep www.praag.org updated on a daily basis, despite also running a full-scale news website in Afrikaans for our local readers on www.praag.co.za. Remember you can also use Google Translate to read some of those articles.

I recently came across an eBook on the internet about racial violence in America, White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return Of Race Riots To America by Colin Flaherty.

What amazed me about this book, was the similarity in the violence committed by blacks in the USA and in South Africa, except here it is more extreme, sadistic and informed by African ritual, such as the recent case where a young white female victim’s hands were amputated. Presumably to be used in the concoction of muti, or medicine.

We shall try to alert you about interesting eBooks regularly, which may stimulate the international debate around white and Western survival. As the visiting Dutch politician Martin Bosma of the Freedom Party said, “You Afrikaners are the canary in the coal mine for the whole Western or European world.”

Indeed. Don’t let us die for the sake of proving that multiculturalism does not work. With our increasing poverty and joblessness here, we rely on your PayPal subscriptions and donations to keep our struggle going here.

Please also tell your friends about our fund-raising site, as well as this site www.praag.org where the enfolding drama of South Africa’s slide into racial socialism is being chronicled.

For the solidarity and friendship that you have shown us so far, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Things may look grim now, but there is hope for our civilisation yet.

Regards,

Dan Roodt

Director, Pro-Afrikaner Action Group (PRAAG)

A visit to the office

 

Partial view of the Afrikaans language monument at Paarl, Western Cape

 

A new office

Recently we moved into a new office in Roodepoort, just west of Johannesburg, which we are sharing with another NGO. We have a nice big boardroom for meetings and a free internet connection supplied by the restaurant owner downstairs. In fact, just about all the fixed costs are being funded by an anonymous donor right here in South Africa.

In the one office sits someone working on a book about the South African genocide – all the farmers and other whites killed since 1994 when the ANC came to power in this country. In another there is some painstaking research and documentation on all the atrocities committed during the same period, with the files getting bigger and bigger.

In the third room we are working on extending our network in South Africa and worldwide, as well as developing alternative media such as websites and e-books.

E-books

We have just negotiated a deal with a distributor of e-readers and are going to sell these at cost price to all our members, about 800 rand or $100 each. These nifty gadgets may contain up to 32 000 e-books on the device and its flash drive, so we reckon it is becoming an alternative to the normally onerous costs and trouble of bringing out traditional books.

For a start, we are going to donate five such devices to schools in the area west of Johannesburg as prizes in an essay competition. That will enable us to market our websites to all the parents in the area and possibly recruit more members, apart from the cultural value of the whole operation.

Pressure on remaining white, Afrikaans schools

As I explained in my last letter, there is constant pressure by the provincial education departments on our schools. South Africa is littered with schools that have suddenly been overrun by blacks, only to fall into disprepair or even stop functioning altogether.

The national education department recently admitted that 4 000 schools had been closed since 1994. Given that South Africa’s population grew by about twenty million over the last twenty years, both naturally and as a result of illegal immigration, the question is: Where did all those children go? The answer is that many of them abandoned the schools in their own areas and flocked to schools in majority-white areas, putting tremendous strain on resources.

In the town of Koppies in the Free State province I saw a concrete example of this process. A young woman, being a former headgirl of the once proud school, explained to me what had happened there. First a political decision was taken by the local party apparatchiks to break up the mostly white high school in Koppies. Black children were force-marched to the school from miles away. Standards of behaviour and of academic prowess plummeted and the white parents started driving their children to another high school in the nearest big town, Kroonstad, about 50 miles or 80 kilometres away. Some became boarders in Kroonstad.

In the meantime the black children started to revolt against the long daily walks to school and went back to the school in their own area. So in short succession Koppies High School went from mostly white to black to empty. Not satisfied, the provincial education department which is of course itself run by the ruling ANC, decided to build a boarding house at huge cost on the school grounds. Needless to say, the usual corruption, inflated prices, kickbacks and nepotism played a role in awarding the contract. However, even after this, the black children were still on strike, as it were, refusing to come to the “conquered” school. Next the education department decided that those children would have to be bused in, with a fat transport contract to be awarded for this. However, two factions formed in the local party ranks, both wanting the transport contract, so that in the end the money was used for something else.

As we drove past the school, the former headgirl explained to me with tears in her eyes that the school, once the pride of the local white Afrikaner community and which had once excelled both academically and in sports, was now standing empty, despite having a new boarding house. Even the electricity had been cut for non-payment. The principal and two other staff members were still there, working in an office connected by a common electric extension cable such as those used in gardens, running to a nearby house.

In my last letter, I referred to Fochville High School, which is currently being targeted for similar treatment. If the town had to lose its high school, it would probably decline economically too. So we have vowed not to let that happen, although we have to careful not to expose the white headmistress and her staff to victimisation by the education department. Schools such as Ermelo who have tried to resist by going to court, have found their school boards simply dismissed or the headmaster summarily fired.

Fortunately, all is not lost, as there are still many well-functioning schools. A recent academic survey of so-called “formerly Model C schools” as such schools were called under the old government, found that our standards of mathematics placed us in the top ten in the world, ahead of countries such as Australia, Britain and the USA. My own children have excellent teachers in maths, science, languages, art, music and every other subject. In South Africa there exists an advanced maths course for high school called “alpha maths” which includes demanding university-level calculus and a small but dedicated group of students at the school take this too.

No wonder our people, refugees from Africanist violence and affirmative action, are in demand the world over, wherever they go. Our loss is the other countries’ gain.

Afrikaners in diaspora

I have often thought that the current generation of emigrants to OECD countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain, the USA, the Netherlands and others could play a positive role. Not only could they alert others to our plight, but also bear testimony as to the abject failure of South Africa’s extremist multicultural revolution. I firmly believe that the similar testimony by Russian émigrés in the early days of the Soviet period played a major role in alerting other Europeans to the dangers of communism, which eventually led to its demise after 1989. Let us hope that our expatriate population could serve as a catalyst for change in their host countries too.

Over the past few weeks I have been really encouraged by communications with Afrikaners all over the world, in the US, the Low Countries, Australia, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates and even as far afield as Malaysia. Many described the South African embassies being run by ANC personnel in their host countries as being hopelessly incompetent. In forming PRAAG groups in those countries, we would be doing the work of the embassies in keeping contact with our people abroad. Let’s hope that one day we might get our embassies back again. But as with schools, it is not so much the buildings that matter, but what goes on inside them.

Regards,

Dan Roodt

Director, PRAAG

A letter from South Africa

Afrikaans monument

Partial view of the Afrikaans language monument at Paarl, Western Cape

 

Dear PRAAG member/supporter abroad,

Thank you very much for your support so far for the cause of saving South Africa’s white and Afrikaner people from extinction. I must apologise for not having communicated with you regularly in the past, but we have been, as always, busy with our increasingly bitter struggle here.

We have also revamped this, our English-language website. Apart from publishing South African news, together with our own media releases and newsletters, we shall also be carrying global news stories of interest on that site. Please visit it regularly as we shall be updating it on a daily basis.

Our Afrikaans-language site for South Africa is also being renewed and has become a major South African news portal in its own right. We publish approximately 20 stories and columns per day and also have a very lively comments section.

Increasingly, the mainstream media in South Africa and globally are suppressing the bad news coming out of this country. For example, our president Jacob Zuma sang a song in public during the ANC’s centenary celebrations on 8 January 2012 in Bloemfontein in which he called for the shooting of Boers and whites. It included the phrases: “They are cowards, they will run, the cabinet will shoot them.” Although broadcast live on television to the whole country, it took some time for people to realise that he was actually calling for the mass killing of whites and farmers, as the song was sung in Zulu.

However, none of the mainstream media made much of this, which actually constituted an international crime due to South Africa being a signatory to various international conventions that prohibit any form of incitement to genocide or violence against another ethnic or racial group.

Many crimes committed against whites are not reflected in police statistics. I personally interviewed a gallery owner in Pretoria who was held up at gunpoint by three blacks in her home who continuously threatened to kill and rape her. She was badly assaulted and had to be hospitalised afterwards. However, when she reported the crime to the local police station, the black officers on duty refused to accept it as she had mentioned the fact that her attackers had used the words: “We are going to kill you, you white bitch.” Due to the racial nature of the attack, the police refused to accept her affidavit.

We are currently setting up support groups all over the country that will collect information which we could then publish on our website. One of our technicians is busy training people in video technology to make it possible to gather evidence and also post videos on YouTube on the ongoing violence in South Africa, as well as efforts to counter it. We have some retired policemen and detectives who are prepared to investigate crimes without remuneration, but we have to pay their transport costs.

No-one knows how many whites have been killed by blacks in South Africa since 1994 when the ANC took over. It could be 30 000, or 50 000, or even as high as 100 000. Such statistics are a closely guarded secret. However, together with another organisation, we lodged an official request last month with the South African Police Service for crime statistics broken down by race or population group. We are anxiously awaiting the results. If not forthcoming, we will be forced to seek a court order to obtain them.

A high-ranking member of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), Martin Bosma, recently visited South Africa. According to him, “Afrikaners are the canary in the coal mine for the whole of the Western world. You will be the first Western nation to die out since the start of the European Renaissance.”

The attack on us is multifaceted: racial violence, anti-white legislation and discrimination, as well as efforts to undermine our educational system, our culture, language and our very identity. At the beginning of this year, a high school in Fochville, a town west of Johannesburg, was targeted with a group of black children bused in by the provincial government. This was the last remaining public school of quality in that whole area, with parents driving their children 100 kilometres per day there and back. The provincial education department is being run by a white communist who is adamant that all schools “must be the same” whether they are majority-white or majority-black. According to talk in the education department, the officials want to capitalise on “white flight” by driving all white children out of public or state schools, forcing them into private and home schooling which many cannot afford.

In 2003 when it was announced that the name of our capital, Pretoria, would be changed to the African name of “Tshwane”, PRAAG was the first organisation to protest that act of cultural vandalism. We organised a protest march right into the heart of the black inner city, with myself walking side by side with the very popular Afrikaner singer Steve Hofmeyr. Since then we have not given up the fight and many court cases and petitions later, it was announced last week that the name of the city would not be changed after all. However, it was announced at the same time that twenty-seven street names would be changed from those of the city’s founders to black and communist names. Even “Church Street” would not be spared as it is apparently offensive. One of the streets would be named after terrorist Solomon Mahlangu who had killed some white civilians in the late 1970’s.

As the South African crisis deepens, more and more people are waking up to the fact that the current system is unjust, corrupt and violent. Those who can afford it, are emigrating. But many cannot leave, either for financial reasons or because the other Western countries would not accept them. On the other hand: why should we leave and simply abandon our country and all our assets to a corrupt African government appointed over us by the United States, Britain, Sweden and other Western powers?

We must claim at least part of South Africa for ourselves! To this end, we are building our current network of activists, not only in this country, but all over the world.

We are very much encouraged by the groundswell of conservative support for us in the United States, the Low Countries, Australia, Northern Italy and many other countries. Protests and demonstrations are being planned in several major Western cities this year and we welcome those.

I want to invite you to join us in this struggle, which currently affects us, the canary in the coal mine, the most. But ultimately it engages us all, because multiculturalism is just communism or extreme egalitarianism in disguise. The Cold War may be over, but the assault upon our Western and Christian values have never been greater.

Let us hope that the movement which we are building to save our beleagured nation on the southern tip of Africa will not only benefit us, but will mobilise thousands more all over Europe and North America to stave off the kind of nightmare which we are already living through, every day.

I shall soon be sending you information on our Pro-Afrikaans support groups or simply “buzz groups” which we are currently forming. They offer an exciting way of meeting like-minded people and participating in the movement to save this nation.

Soon, on 6 April 2012, it will be 360 years since three Dutch ships first threw anchor in Cape Town’s Table Bay. Of course, that founding moment is today derided as “the coming of the hated white colonialist”.

But we who love our culture and civilisation know otherwise.

Regards,

Dan Roodt
Director, PRAAG (Pro-Afrikaner Action Group)