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European Union must not side with the farm murderers of South Africa

by Dan Roodt

The news that South Africa supplies 70% of the citrus fruit consumed in the European Union adds another ingredient to the debate around farmland in South Africa. In strictly economic terms, both farm murders and ANC’s radical land reform plans serve European protectionist interests.

Our farmers are almost superhuman. Against all odds, they manage to compete against the pampered, subsidised EU agricultural producers. They live within a virtual war zone of terrorist attacks on farms, hostile propaganda from the left-liberal media and concerted attempts by neo-Marxist think tanks like the Cape-based PLAAS that advocate the abolition of property rights altogether.

The ANC government is amenable to the radicals of PLAAS, such Dr. Ruth Hall, an Afrikaner-hating, Oxford academic who came to this country with the sole intention of instigating a Soviet-style “agrarian revolution” that would push Afrikaners off their ancestral, family-owned lands. In the process, agriculture as we know it will be destroyed and our sought-after fruit will again disappear off European supermarket shelves as in the days of the anti-apartheid boycott against South Africa when French communists and Dutch anarchists focussed their hate on the word “Outspan”.

Apart from the teaching profession, there are few areas of economic activity in South Africa that are so dominated by Afrikaners as agriculture. To understand why, one must briefly look at the history of this country. During the nineteenth century, colonial British mining companies snapped up all the minerals in the old Boer republics and when that wasn’t enough, they persuaded Britain to invade us, burn all our farms and put our women and children in concentration camps.

In the cities, Afrikaners were discriminated against and even forbidden to speak their language in stores. With most of business, mining and industry closed to us, we had only farming and the professions open to us. That is how Afrikaners doggedly stuck to agriculture, through droughts and crises, and managed to get fifty percent of the postgraduate qualifications in this country. We also produced a large number of accountants, doctors and lawyers.

With the ANC’s revolutionary takeover, the first thing they did was to apply stringent affirmative action to our medical schools so that hardly any Afrikaner physicians are being trained anymore. The legal profession was dumbed down so that just about anybody could get a degree and even a mediocre advocate could become a judge, as long as he happened to be black. Accounting standards are still being upheld, but one wonders for how long before racial quotas will be applied there too.

Agriculture therefore represents a last economic foothold for Afrikaners. Despite European and American protectionism, we have managed to carve out a niche in the world market. Our beautiful, tasty, healthy oranges and grapefruit grace the breakfast tables of Europe.

However, when EU Commissioner Catherine Ashton and the South African Minister of International Relations, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, met yesterday in Brussels, there was no-one representing the Afrikaner interest around the table. Neither the protectionist EU, nor the anti-white, anti-Afrikaans ANC, gives two hoots about our economic survival in this country. We are already excluded from government, from the big corporations, from the mines, from the bench, from hospitals and banks.

Once our academics were able to build some of the finest universities in this country and in the world. Yet even there, the imperatives of “transformation” have dictated our exclusion on racial and cultural grounds from the very institutions our fathers and grandfathers had founded and developed. Foreign academics from the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and other African countries have flocked to our universities to displace us, the indigenous whites of South Africa.

Until now, the European Union has said nothing about the vicious attacks on our farmers. Unless Europeans want to be seen as siding with the radical, ethnocentric and even genocidal elements in this country who wish to ethnically cleanse Afrikaners from the land, they will have to speak out and condemn such attacks.

At the same time, we insist upon open access to the EU market in fruit as it is one of the few lifelines we have left in this left-fascist environment where an alliance of UK academics and farm killers threaten to destabilise our agriculture further, or even destroy it completely.

We also appeal to European political parties sympathetic to Afrikaners to voice their concerns about maintaining the health of our exports and trade. Stability needs to return, against the outlandish ideas of “land reform” advocated by unreconstructed communists. “Land reform” is a slogan for extending the full-spectrum racial dominance that we already experience in the rest of the economy and the public sector, but it will also serve those in Europe who see a threat in our honest and fair competition with them.

So a TV presenter dies and the country gasps in shock?

So a TV presenter dies and the country gasps?

Firstly let me say – rest in peace Vuyo, I have become very accustomed to sharing my lounge with you in the mornings, and your “sharp sharp” always seemed to put a positive spin on my day. My sincerest condolences to his family and friends as they have lost a loved one who was far too young to die.

But – is this a symptom of our society that the entire country sits up and gasps when a TV personality dies of what seems to be a heart attack or something similar? Was this unfortunate death that much more important than the many people who had died violently in the last couple of weeks? People who were beaten to death, shot, raped and tortured? Little old ladies in their seventies raped and beaten? So many farm attacks in the last couple of weeks and yet I have not heard a collective gasp or witnessed any outrage at these terrible crimes and the horrible deaths that go hand in hand with them?

Are they somehow less important? Do they not warrant our outrage and disgust? Should there not have been a collective gasp at these heinous crimes? Why are they not worthy of decent media coverage? Is it perhaps because they are perpetrated against white people? Does the fact that the victims are white make it ok? Or less important because they somehow deserved what they got? This really makes me mad! These people have died horrible deaths and nobody seems to care? They were not famous or important but they were somebody’s family, a beloved husband or wife, a mother or father, a son or daughter who did not deserve to be tortured to death! Our infamous government claims there is no problem and that crime in our country is under control; they deny that the white people are being systematically eradicated form our society.

I too will miss Vuyo, but it disgusts me that all the people who were killed in farm attacks and robberies will remain faceless and nameless and we will go about our business never having spared a thought for them and their grieving families! It is time to start getting angry, and time to start demanding action from our useless leaders. What does it say about us as a people that we just keep trudging on amid this wholesale slaughter of our countrymen? I am tired of seeing the crosses on the hill on the highway to Pietersburg multiply overnight without any end in sight! So please people, every time you hear of another senseless killing, spread the word so the world will sit up and cry out in disgust, seeing as we as a people are not willing to do so, maybe the world will be so shocked and disgusted that they will intervene in our situation and save us from our bloodthirsty government and our punch-drunk apathy.

It really is scary what we as a people have come to accept as normal and acceptable conditions to live in. If this were Libya or Egypt, heads would roll, but not here – no we just “kyk noord en fok voort”.

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Blade runner killing and the media blackout

by Ilana Mercer

After decades of indifference from America’s infotainment industry, imagine my surprise to hear TV anchors like Megyn Kelly of Fox News allude to the killing fields of South Africa.

South Africa should be in the news every day. It isn’t. Scant few among the West’s Yellow Press care to chronicle the country’s favorite blood sport: murder. The Afrikaners, in particular – arguably that country’s founding people – are being killed off at genocidal rates with nary a murmur from the media – although the same crowd is on the scene to report on Nelson Mandela’s every wheelchair-bound move.

According to Genocide Watch, South Africa under the African National Congress is now at stage 5 of the 8 stages of genocide. However, were it not for a little-known, heroic Internet journalist (cited in “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa”), few would know who the victims of this racial onslaught are and how they die.

Soon jurist Alan Dershowitz was chiming in about “how dangerous” life in South Africa was. Dershowitz even denigrated the country’s judiciary as “a very politically correct judiciary,” “filled with people from the ANC and supporters of the ANC”; most certainly “not one of the finer judiciaries in the world.”

A subject that had been submerged since 1994 – the ramshackle state of post-apartheid South Africa – was suddenly being raised, if in veiled terms.

The reason for the heightened awareness among the criminally comatose is Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius’ run-in with the law. The Olympian amputee killed his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in what he contends was a case of mistaken identity. This being South Africa, the crime scene in suburban Pretoria is rumored to have been contaminated by the new and notorious South African Police Services. And the prosecutor has overreached, charging Pistorius, who has no priors, with premeditated murder.

The high-profile murder is PC and TV perfect for a left-liberal media, in South Africa and beyond, that wish to peddle the myth of “colorless” crime in South Africa. It is no such thing. In the aggregate, violence in the Rainbow Nation – more appropriately called the “Rambo Nation” – is unidirectional: black on black and black on white. Violence against women generally flows in the same direction. Considering, moreover, that the country now has one of the world’s highest murder rates and lowest conviction rates, a South Africa thug can safely pursue his vocation without fearing the consequences.

South African authorities, universities and think tanks no longer provide information about victimization patterns by race of victim and offender. Nevertheless, in the research for my book, I uncovered data according to which, at 76.6 percent of the population, blacks committed 76.4 percent of “intimate femicides” (defined as “the killing of a female person by an intimate partner”). And they committed 68.3 percent of “non-intimate femicides”: “the killing of a woman by someone other than an intimate partner.”

Whites have proven woefully inadequate to the task of filling their pro-rata crime quotas (page 38). At less than 9 percent of the population and dwindling, the corresponding numbers for white South Africans were 3.9 and 2.6 percent, respectively.

Order lIana Mercer’s brilliant polemical work, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa”

With respect to incarceration rates, whites “underperformed” again. According to the South African Department of Correctional Services, 113,773 criminals had been sentenced as of June 2008, of whom only 2,190 were white. Whites make up only 1.9 percent of the number of sentenced criminals.

Weighing in with 90,013 sentenced individuals – approximately 79.1 percent of the total number of criminals sentenced – blacks more than filled their per-population crime allotment.

This high-profile celebrity case involves a class of people – wealthy white South Africans – whose role in the country’s violent crime is statistically insignificant. Trust a hypocritical media to turn a statistical outlier, an anomaly, into a perfect foil for the continued blackout on the color of crime in South Africa.

The incontinent gushing over Pistorius has given way to condemnation. Paranoid about security is how the athlete’s “obligingly stupid” journo friends are now labeling him. They had only ever jetted in from low-crime or no-crime countries for an interview.

More at home among the international glitterati, Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius is no Afrikaner “everyman,” says activist Dan Roodt, who is such a man. Even so – and for all his privilege – Pistorius knows the rapacity and invincibility of the criminal class in his country. Like every other Afrikaner, he knew in his gut what infiltrating gangs would do to a legless Boer. He had seen the mangled images.

Perhaps Pistorius will speak up.

Minister stops meeting on South African farm murders

andre-visagie — André Visagie, leader of the Geloftevolkrepublikeine

A meeting on rural crime between Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and rightwingers was abandoned shortly after it began in Pretoria on Thursday.

Mthethwa said afterwards he had taken exception to mention of the African National Congress at the beginning of deliberations.

“As we started, the delegation raised issues about the ANC. I can’t talk about ANC matters on a government platform,” he said.

“We were ready so that if there was anything that relates to crime matters we would attend it. We actually had to cancel the meeting.”

The parties held separate news briefings, starting with Mthethwa and national police chief General Riah Phiyega, followed by the rightwing movement, Gelofte Volk (People of the Covenant).

Gelofte Volk leader Andre Visagie said the “Boer leaders” of three organisations — Gelofte Volk, the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and the Commando Corps — had wanted to discuss farm murders with Mthethwa.

“We wanted to discuss the security situation in South Africa. I had submitted the agenda of the meeting to the PA (personal assistant) of the minister.

“It is a pity and I feel very much embarrassed and belittled because the minister was not informed by his people that we had taken the initiative to arrange the meeting,” said Visagie.

He said the minister became upset at the use of the word “ANC” instead of “government”.

“My perception is that it is the same thing because the ANC is the government. I said we are not sure whether the ANC supports the riots [at farm wage-related protests],” he said.

“He [Mthethwa] said ‘now you are making it a political thing’.”

Visagie said he was optimistic another meeting would be held.

“Today our meeting was arranged for 10am but he came in at 12pm. He found something to blame to cut the meeting short,” he said.

Visagie is former AWB general secretary.

In 2010, he resigned to start the Gelofte Volk Republikeine, and said he wanted to fulfil a promise he made to slain AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche.

Visagie said the government had put in place more interventions to protect the rhino population than it had to protect farmers.

“In the past years, 4000 white farmers were murdered but there is no special unit to protect them. It doesn’t make sense to us,” he said.

“We see that the rhino appears to be more important in South Africa than the lives of our white people. Killing of rhinos in South Africa is a priority crime, but the killing of white farmers isn’t,” he said.

Visagie threatened to intervene in farmworkers’ often violent protests in the Western Cape.

“My question is who is going to protect our people on their properties now? If those people [farmers] in the Western Cape ask us to come and help, we will help,” he said.

“I’m prepared to leave my business and go there. I will help them [farmers] to protect their property. That is what we wanted to discuss with the minister. We want to help our people.”

Asked what he and his associates would do in the Western Cape, Visagie said he would take his firearm to turbulent areas.

“I will take my legal firearm with me, I will go down to the Western Cape and book in at one of the farms being threatened.

“If it comes to [the] push, I am going to help that farmer to protect his property, because the police have failed to do it.” – Sapa

Another horror attack in Muldersdrift

White residents live in fear as a Gauteng father was shot dead in front of his new wife and son – five years after his first wife was brutally killed in front of him during a robbery.

Jacques Botha, 51, was shot by black robbers in cold blood, in front of his wife Anél, 45, and son Neo, 3, on their smallholding Muldersdrift, reported Beeld.

It was the second violent attack in two days on the smallholding.

Botha’s daughter Tanya, 22, said she and brother Reinhardt, 18, were struggling to cope with their father’s death.

Anél Botha revealed on Sunday how she heard a noise at about 20:00 in the house they were renting on the smallholding.

She saw three big men overpower Botha and shoot him six times. She fled with their son but the robbers found her and threatened her with a knife, demanding her laptop and cellphone.

“I thought they were going to kill us,” said Anél.

“My husband was busy dying on the floor but they clearly had no conscience or respect.”

A gang of robbers was thought to be operating in the area and was believed responsible for another attack on a family living in another house on the smallholding. – Beeld

Dangerous chaos in South Africa – appeal from farmers

westerncape_riots1 — Looting and arson on Western Cape wine farms

SOUTH AFRICA TODAY: Farms in the Western Cape region are being burned, shops in small towns ransacked, people assaulted and intimidated. At least two people have been shot. Reports that a white farmer had been dragged from his vehicle and murdered.

This is total chaos; yet the ANC government and its trade union partner Cosatu are ENCOURAGING the carnage! Very few reports go out on the mainstream media, indicating a media black-out. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are our only means of information and action.

Make no mistake – this is a xenophobic attack aimed at white people. This had been going on for years now with thousands of Afrikaners/Boers murdered and attacked; yet there is no outcry from the world.

WE URGE you – please use your status in your country’s Parliament to make this known to the world; to impose sanctions against the black racist government of South Africa until they stop the madness.

We are not going to sit back and follow the route of Zimbabwe where all whites were bankrupted, murdered and forced to flee. We are 4,5 million – and as God is my witness – this madness has all the elements of turning into a full scale race war.

We need you and your country to stand up TODAY and stop the nonsense.

Hannes Engelbrecht, Boer Crisis Action

American farm manager attacked with machete in South Africa

LADYBRAND. – An American farm manager has been attacked with a machete by blacks in South Africa. Allen Rodgers was attacked on the farem Geluk, owned by the American company SBH Farms.

The 61-year old was rushed to the Mediclinic private hospital in Bloemfontein with slashes and cuts after having been attacke by three black men. They waited for him in the farmhouse after they had ambushed his girlfriend, Mandy, and tied her up.

According to a farmer in the area, he was ” attacked with machetes and wounded badly”. However, a spokeswoman for the Mediclinic, Amanda Appelgryn said that he was “stable”.

Mr. Bernard Maree of the Free State Agricultural Union, said that the attackers had stolen about R10 000 and some cellphones.

Police were still looking for the criminals on the farm while soldiers were despatched to the Lesotho border. Lesotho, a landlocked country in the centre of South Africa, was given independence by Britain in the nineteenth century to frustrate Afrikaners during a war with the Basotho and today the country is notorious for its cross-border criminal raids into South Africa.

In the ongoing ethnic conflict in rural South Africa, other whites and Afrikaners have been killed over the last few days. At Hartbeesfontein in the Northwest province Ronél van Eyk (46) was killed after taking her 9-year old son Freddie to school.

She was about to leave when three black men attacked her, Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said.

“She was shot in the cheek, arm, and breast before the men fled with her white Toyota Venture.”

Her neighbour, Jurie Fourie, said that he was eating breakfast when his cellphone rang. “It was Ronél. She could only breathe with difficulty. I phoned back when the cellphone went dead. Ronél again picked up and I could only hear her heavy breathing.”

Shortly before she died, Van Eyk indicated that there were three black robbers.

In other casualties over the last 48 hours, Owen Charles of the farm Armadale near Jansenville was murdered by farm attackers. His wife Janet, whose 7oth birthday had been celebrated on Saturday, was attacked with a knife and was hit over the head with a blunt object. She was in a critical condition and taken to the Life St. George hospital in Port Elizabeth.

Life sentences for black farm murderer

A KwaZulu-Natal man was given three life sentences on Friday 27 July for killing a Mooi River farmer’s wife, a helper, and a gardener.

The Pietermaritzburg High Court earlier convicted Mzwandile Magubane, 21, a gang member who started a fire in July 2010 to draw people from a farmhouse.

Acting Judge Muzi Thom Ncube said Magubane’s conduct was so aggravating that it overrode any mitigating factors, such as his relative youth and that he was a first time offender.

“You deprived three defenceless people of their right to life,” Ncube said.

Attacks on innocent people, particularly in the farming community, would not be tolerated, he said.

Magubane was found guilty of murdering Lorraine Karg, Hilda Linyane and Shayi Mhlongo.

They were murdered while Karg’s husband Neville and his staff were dousing the fire.

The gang cut Karg and Mhlongo’s throats. Linyane was shot. – SAPA

‘Farm attacks not racially motivated’ – South African president

Farm attacks should be viewed within the context of the country’s high crime statistics, and not as racially motivated, President Jacob Zuma has told Beeld newspaper.

Many attacks took place on the farms of white commercial farmers, and had the appearance of being racially motivated, but this was not the case, Zuma told the newspaper in an interview on Tuesday.

He said that many murders took place in South Africa’s townships, and these were not always reported in the media.

The government rejected farm attacks and would attend to farmers’ concerns that the comprehensive rural safety plan was not getting off the ground.

Asked why farm murders were not being made a priority crime, Zuma said Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa had said in Parliament that farm attacks were just as much of a priority as any other crime.

The recent court case against the murderers of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader Eugene Terreblanche had again shown that crime, rather than politics, was the driving factor behind the attacks, he said.

Praising the country’s commercial farmers, Zuma said: “Wherever I go, established farmers tell me that they’re prepared to act as mentors for emerging farmers.”

Freedom Front Plus said Zuma was ill-informed.

“President Zuma is clearly ill-informed about farm murders if he says that race does not play a role,” the party’s spokesman Pieter Groenewald said in a statement.

He claimed research had shown in 2003 that 2 percent of farm murders were racially driven.

“The reality is that the cruelty with which the farm murders are perpetrated attests that it is not ordinary criminality.”

“The president should firstly tell us how many farm murders have taken place since 2007 for him to be able to prove his statement.”

He claimed the figure for murders of farmers stood at around 313 per 100,000 of the population while the figure for the murder of “ordinary people” was 32 per 100,000.

“If Zuma wants to resolve farm murders he has to concede to the request of the Freedom Front Plus…to make crime statistics on farm murders available and to declare farm murders as a priority crime,” said Groenewald.

Blacks committed cruel farm murder, says Christian party

The murder of a mother of two during a robbery on a farm outside Randfontein was an act of cruelty, the Christian Democratic Party said on Thursday.

“The level of cruelty during farm murders is so appalling that it is impossible not to be outraged by them,” CDP leader Theunis Botha said in a statement.

Beeld newspaper named the woman as Venessa Stafleu, 34, from the farm Doornfontein 2. Botha said her murder followed the death of a 75-year-old woman, killed on her farm near Citrusdal.

“Some of these farm murders appear to be indiscriminate and are perpetrated only to satisfy some thirst for blood. We regard it as highly irresponsible that the government has not declared farm murders a priority crime,” he said.

The woman was shot and killed when robbers broke into her home on Monday around 8pm, said Captain Appel Ernst. Her two children, aged three and five, were in the house at the time.

Money and guns were stolen. At the time, the woman’s husband was driving back to the house.

48 European Members of Parliament condemn ‘farm attacks’ against white South Africans

Philip Claeys (Vlaams Belang), Andreas Mölzer (FPÖ) and Fiorello Provera (Lega Nord) submitted a written declaration to the European Parliament to protest against the ongoing ‘farm attacks’ in South Africa, which have already led to the death of thousands of Boers – white South Africans.

This declaration emphasizes the concern of the European Parliament and the systematic character of the attacks against white South Africans, and asks the South African government to urgently take measures to protect the Boers.

The declaration has been signed by 48 European Members of Parliament from 19 different member states and 7 political groups: Socialists, Liberals, Christian Democrats, Independents, the Eurosceptics of the EFD and the ECR, and even a member of the Communist group. “This shows that the horrendous ‘farm attacks’ are of great concern to several political groups across Europe”, Philip Claeys MEP concluded.

Vlaams Belang would like to thank in particular Louis Michel (MR) for his remarkable support for this initiative.

Another remarkable fact is that only one group did not support this declaration: the Greens – of which Frieda Brepoels (N-VA) is a member. Vlaams Belang regrets the fact that the Greens and the N-VA apparently are not concerned by the massive killing of white South African Boers…

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.”