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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)

PRAAG calls for civil disobedience after passing of language bill

For more than two hundred years the Afrikaans language has been attacked and marginalised in South Africa, either by the British colonial authorities or by the ANC regime. During the days of National Party rule, English was allowed to retain its role as sole public language and Afrikaans was subjected to censorship.

PRAAG (the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group) therefore rejects the notion that Afrikaans could ever be classified with English as a “previously advantaged language”. Commenting in Johannesburg, Dr. Dan Roodt, the leader of PRAAG said: “No language has been more subject to state repression and marginalisation than Afrikaans. The new language bill simply represents a continuation of British imperialism and colonialism, with the genocidal ANC regime intent upon killing Afrikaans and a large number of its speakers.”

Roodt has called upon the international community to “take note of the dire situation in South Africa, with the ANC regime inviting ethnic conflict through its policy of cultural and linguistic imperialism, as well as attacks upon Afrikaans schools, place names, museums and libraries.”

PRAAG will join in court applications with other Afrikaans organisations to stop the illegal and totalitarian measures being taken against Afrikaans. However, it has also called for civil disobedience to the “sushi-devouring, corrupt, Milnerist satraps whose tyrannical rule over South Africa already represents a crime against humanity. Afrikaners especially should not pay toll fees, taxes or make any contribution to sustain these Idi Amin-like clowns who are dreaming of being British lords calling us donkeys for speaking Afrikaans.”

However, the pro-Afrikaans body has welcomed the “clarity” brought by the ANC’s new language law. “If final evidence had been needed that the unitary state of South Africa was doomed, this is it,” said Roodt. “The only logical way out is self-determination for Afrikaners, as soon as possible. There is currently a reawakening of our noble Afrikaner spirit that has sustained us in the struggle against imperialism for so long. We prevailed against the British Empire and will likewise survive the Nguni Empire in its venality, ugliness and arrogance.”

Afrikaner NGO’s file information request on whites murdered since 1994

Two Afrikaner NGO’s, PRAAG and the Boereleed Research Institute have filed a request under the Promotion of Access to Information Act of 2000 with the South African Police Service for murder statistics broken down by population group.

According to Dr. Dan Roodt, director of PRAAG (Pro-Afrikaans Action Group), “there is widespread concern among members of ethnic minorities in South Africa about the high number of attacks and murders committed against them. Until now, no-one has requested this information and it has led to widespread speculation about the number of black-on-white murders committed since 1994”.

Under the act, the SAPS now has one month to supply the murder statistics. “We hope that the statistics will be accurate and up to date, as we have also received complaints that the police do not always open murder dockets and sometimes classify such crimes as housebreaking and other minor offences.”

According to informal internet polls, the majority of Afrikaners believe that murders are politically and racially motivated, even though a recent study by the Institute of Race Relations found that “only 2%” of black-on-white murders are of such a nature.

“Two percent might be a small percentage,” said Roodt, “but it still points to a serious amount of ethnic killings in South Africa, given our very high murder rate. Depending on the absolute number of interracial murders in South Africa, recent characterisations of farm murders as ‘genocide’ might be justified.”

Both Boereleed and PRAAG are worried about official attacks on Afrikaans schools. Roodt said: “In all the literature on ethnic conflict and genocide, language discrimination serves as an early-warning signal of such conflict. Afrikaans schools in the town of Fochville have recently been singled out for hostile action by the provincial education department. I am currently trying to get an appointment with Gauteng MEC for education Barbary Creecy to discuss the matter. If it is not defused, ethnic polarisation in Fochville might further escalate.”

Last year PRAAG laid a charge of incitement to genocide at the International Criminal Court in The Hague against Mr. Julius Malema for singing the song, “Kill the Boer”. “Despite this song being illegal in terms of a court order, there is evidence that elements of the ruling party, including President Jacob Zuma, are still singing it,” said the PRAAG leader. “We will have to further alert the international community about the persecution of Afrikaners in South Africa.”

PRAAG supports embassy occupation and calls for global Pro-Afrikaans Movement (PAM)

Koster protest
PRAAG protest against genocide in Koster, a small rural town in South Africa

PRAAG (the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group) based in Johannesburg supports the occupation of South African embassies in all Western countries on the tentative date of 15 March 2012. It has also called for a global Pro-Afrikaans Movement (PAM) that would see sympathetic parties, organisations and individuals supporting Afrikaner rights in South Africa, including the right to life.

“International law lays the responsibility to protect upon all governments, especially the South African government which is governing from the very city, Pretoria, where Afrikaners once exercised sovereignty and where the vestiges of our former independence are still evident in the form of statues, street names and architectural symbols,” said Dr. Dan Roodt, leader of PRAAG.

“We also claim the right to speak our own language and to have our own institutions such as schools and universities,” he continued.  “All institutions stolen from us should be returned as soon as possible, together with compensation for damages to our artefacts, documents, objets d’art and heritage.”

Dr. Roodt stated that the current violence and discrimination suffered by his people were tantamount to genocide and should arouse international concern and intervention.

“As the first nation of European and Western descent threatened by imminent national death at the hands of a third-world alliance in our own country, the Pro-Afrikaans Movement should inspire those who support us to also fight for their own survival and the preservation of their own heritage and way of life,” he said. “However, we are confident of our victory and the restoration of our sovereignty and independence, as well as the return of our land by those who have conquered it by non-military means.”

Roodt concluded by saying: “We pledge ourselves, once we have secured our Fourth Republic, to help those patriots of all countries who have come to our aid in this, the darkest hour of our history, so as to safeguard their own freedom against uncontrolled immigration, affirmative action and other measures meant to cause the downfall of European culture as a whole.”

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PRAAG deeply concerned about SA press preedom

MEDIA RELEASE BY PRAAG (PRO-AFRIKAANS ACTION GROUP) ON 3 MAY 2010

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day being celebrated today, PRAAG has expressed its “deep concern about South African press freedom”. Speaking in Johannesburg, the leader of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group, Dr. Dan Roodt, stated: “Free debate and expressing dissident opinions are increasingly being curtailed in South Africa. The ruling party controls the South African Broadcasting Corporation whereas the increasing monopoly of Naspers over especially the Afrikaans-language media has led to a decline in quality and a rise in intolerance.”

Artists, writers and columnists are either stifled or defamed, often by muck-raking articles about their private lives or spurious accusations of being “racists”. “Ranging from columnist David Bullard to singer Steve Hofmeyr, large sections of the media have tried to vilify those who are not part of the cabal manufacturing consent in our country,” said Roodt. “The totalitarian spirit is alive and well in South Africa and being promoted by both unreconstructed communists in the ruling ANC/SACP and the former sycophants of apartheid, such as Naspers. Paradoxically, it is far more difficult for critical voices to get published or heard today than it was under the former National Party government. If it were not for the internet, there would hardly have been media diversity in South Africa.”

Roodt called upon “authors, singers, journalists and columnists to take a strong stand in favour of freedom of speech. We should use the South African Constitution and all legal means to fight the encroachment of a one-party state and monopolistic, exclusionary tactics from the private sector. Lawyers should also make a contribution to defending press freedom in the Constitional Court and to lay charges against the media monopoly at the Competition Board.”

The leader of PRAAG also paid tribute to poet and philosopher N.P. van Wyk Louw who was in many respects the father of “open discussion” in South Africa. “Already in the 1940s, Van Wyk Louw understood how fragile freedom of speech in this country was, given its ethnic and racial diversity. His notion of ‘open discussion’ laid the ground rules for tolerance and intellectual enquiry in South Africa. It is an absolute scandal that the annual Van Wyk Louw memorial lecture should also have been hijacked by government ideologues at the University of Johannesburg, making a mockery of his heritage.”

PRAAG welcomes UN investigation into Afrikaner genocide

After many letters and three overseas visits to bring violent attacks on Afrikaner farmers to the attention of the international community, PRAAG welcomes the imminent visit of a UN delegation to investigate the possibility of genocide in South Africa.

The Pro-Afrikaans Action Group’s leader, Dr. Dan Roodt, said: “The announcement (video link to E-TV news bulletin underneath) by Mr. Castro Wesamba that the United Nations is sending an expert delegation to investigate farm murders and other forms of ethnic violence in our country shows that the international community has not forgotten us. But it had also been necessary for PRAAG and an anonymous farmer from Rustenburg to wage an international campaign around the issue before we got the necessary response.”

Within the context of the Malema trial currently taking place in the Johannesburg High Court, South Africa finds itself already, according to Roodt, “in the midst of what the United Nations has been calling in their most recent terminology an identity conflict. For considerable time now, we have been maitaining that the level of violence, dehumanisation, hate speech and open incitement to ethnic conflict and even genocide is not normal, not at all. However, the South African public and Afrikaners in particular have been conditioned to accept these extreme conditions as normal with some attempting to protect themselves against these by means of ad hoc and individual measures.”

PRAAG is planning to step up its communication with the UN, as well as the American and other foreign governments in the run-up to the UN visit. “We feel that there should be a national and international debate and concern about the identity conflict in South Africa. We blame the South African media and academics for not addressing the issue with greater insight and seriousness. Thousands of murders and tens of thousands of attacks could have been prevented.”

Roodt was also of the opinion that “the duty of every government to protect its citizens, which is also a principle of international law, is not being applied in our country. We should demand the right to protection. Otherwise, there should be tax incentives and funding for more private security, if the state and the police cannot perform its duties.”