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Anti-Afrikaner human rights violations in the spotlight

Human rights violations against Afrikaners are increasingly under the spotlight, as the Commonwealth Human Rights Unit has started to monitor the issue and an American expert on genocide, Dr. Gregory Stanton, has arrived in South Africa.

Speaking on the nation-wide radio station RadioSonderGrense yesterday morning, Dr. Dan Roodt of PRAAG said that there were “systemic human rights violations being committed against Afrikaners under the ANC government”. PRAAG has laid a charge at the Commonwealth against South Africa for what it calls “the systemic violation of human rights” suffered by Afrikaners and white South Africans generally.

He also referred to previous complaints laid by PRAAG at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva and the South African Human Rights Commission. However, the South African Human Rights Commission seemed reluctant to investigate any human rights abuses against people of European descent.

“On my last visit to the SA Human Rights Commission in Parktown, Johannesburg, I got the distinct impression that they were only concerned about white-on-black racism, ” said Dr. Dan Roodt. “The commissioner, a black woman, displayed a book on her desk entitled ‘White Power: The Rise and Fall of the National Party’ by feminist Marxist author Christi van der Westhuizen. She told me that I was mentioned in the book (even though I never had anything to do with the National Party) and that therefore she could not listen to my complaint about human rights violations against Afrikaners. How is one to take the SAHRC seriously? Nevertheless, for the record,we will also renew our appeal to the SAHRC to intervene in the rapes, murders and massacres of so many white and Afrikaner families under ANC rule.”

PRAAG found that until now the Commonwealth and the NGO Genocide Watch had been the only two international organisations that have responded to the human rights crisis in South Africa.

Dr. Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch has just arrived in South Africa. He will be giving a press conference on 26 July at 11h00 in Silverton, Pretoria, at the TAU SA head office during which Dr Stanton will share his impressions and conclusions.

Dr Gregory Stanton is Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, and has been concerned about the extreme levels of black violence against Afrikaners for some time now. On its website, Genocide Watch classifies South Africa as a “level 5” genocide country. At level 7 full-scale genocide breaks out. On its website Genocide Watch stated on 4 July 2012:

“Genocide Watch considers land redistribution to be a ticking time bomb in South Africa. If the wealthy countries of the world do not assist South Africa in resolving it by financing compensation of land-sellers, the ‘rainbow nation’ could descend into violence and go the way of Zimbabwe.

“Genocide Watch rates South Africa at Stage Five: Polarization, just at the edge of Stage Six, Preparation (for genocide).”

In a statement, Mr. Louis Mentjes, President of the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa said: “TAU SA will endeavour to compare its’ own views regarding violent crimes on farms and the untenable situation within which farm dwellers find themselves, with Dr Stanton’s insight and studies elsewhere. He is internationally recognized and his concern regarding the situation in the RSA, demands discussion and consideration.”

Over and above from having individual discussions with several leading figures, Dr Stanton will also have the opportunity to attend a district agricultural union meeting as well as being the guest of the FW de Klerk Foundation during a conference where “National Policy at the Cross Roads” will be the topic under discussion.

A media conference is scheduled for 11h00 on 26 July 2012 at the TAU SA head office in Silverton during which Dr Stanton will share his impressions and conclusions. The media is invited to attend.

ANC Youth League help at Afrikaner old-age home

ANC Youth League members did volunteer work on Wednesday at a family welfare organisation in Khutsong on the West Rand run by an Afrikaner women’s body.

They did so as part of their 67-minute contribution to mark former president Nelson Mandela’s birthday on Wednesday.

SA Vrouefederasie regional manager for Carletonville, Suzette Oosthuizen, said: “There were a lot of people.”

She said the league visited a centre for the aged in the area and helped with the food gardens, which residents had been struggling to establish.

“For the elderly to work in the garden is a challenge,” said Oosthuizen.

They enjoyed having the young people over. “We should have it more often,” she said. Her wish was that someone would make a year-long commitment to help out.

League spokeswoman Khusela Sangoni-Khawe said: “As much as we speak about economic freedom, we understand the key components are about looking after people in general, including the elderly.”

It was irrelevant that the family welfare organisations they visited were run by Afrikaners. – Sapa

“I don’t think the divisions in our society are such that we [should] forget that we are one people,” she said.

Every year on Mandela’s birthday, people are encouraged to donate 67 minutes of their time to some form of community service in his honour.

The bullshit vilification of whites in South Africa

By Mike Smith

“Dog bites man” is not news, but “Man bites dog” is.

It also applies to spotting bullshit in the news. Stabbing someone to death is just not a white thing in South Africa. It is a black or coloured move. It is what they do, not we. Now if you hear of a white man who shot someone to death, then you can believe it, because that is what whites do…but stabbing? Nahhh. Who are they trying to fool here?

That is what I thought when I read a few weeks ago about five white men and a woman arrested in Boksburg after a 15 year old black boy was stabbed to death in an open field between a black township called Primrose and the white suburb of Boksburg.

Two boys, one 15 the other 18 walked through the field and the 15 yo was beaten up and stabbed to death…apparently by whites wearing balaclavas. Apparently the black mother of Sibusiso Titimani was alerted by a boy who told her. ‘mama ka Sibusiso! uyashaywa uSibusiso ngamabhunu’ [Sibusiso is being beaten up by the boers],”

Nearby, an innocent white family lived, so the police kicked their doors down at 03h00 in the morning and arrested them. The media splashed it out that 16 guns and 15 swords were found together with camouflage clothing and wait for it…the obligatory “Nazi-badge” that was obviously thrown in by the police.

Apparently, presumably and allegedly, according to the media, they carried out the killing of the 15-year old black boy in revenge for the killing of rightwing leader Eugene Terreblanche.

The story made international headlines. British newspaper’s vilification of white South Africans

Even their names were splashed all over the newspapers. “Susanna Harmse, 50, was arrested on Friday with Wesley Courtney, 27, Christopher Duvenage, 25, Daniel Harmse, 19, Abraham Harmse, 50, and Christopher Harmse.” Source

All Afrikaners then. All rightwing fanatics and murderers… right?

Now at this stage anybody who grew up in South Africa would know exactly what happened here.

The 18-year old friend of Sibusiso beat him up and stabbed him to death in the field and then blamed it on the “white peoples”… but proclaiming the obvious truth would be akin to sacrilege, for these noble savages are little angels who can do no wrong and the whites are the evil devils, yadda yadda bullshit!

The sensationalist black newspaper Sowetan and its 3rd-rate reporters such as Mogomotsi Selebi obviously tried to climb on the mudslinging band wagon and rubbed it in… “Heavy caliber guns, ammunition and rightwing emblems…” were found. Sowetan sensationalist bollocks

The MSM tried their best to turn this into a racial hate crime and blacks demonstrated against the whites outside the court.

Well it subsequently turned out that the police ended up with egg on their mugs seeing that the “heavy caliber guns” were mere pellet guns and the rest of the weapons and ammunition were all legal and registered. Further… all charges were withdrawn because the state found “no connection whatsoever” between these people and the murdered boy. They had solid alibis and none of them could be pointed out in an identity parade.

The judge had the following to say. “Somebody is going to have mud on their face,” said Snyman. “We heard that many firearms were found in your possession, but they were pellet guns. People get so upset, they come outside court toyi-toying, (but in the) meantime these people have not even been pointed out… It’s always much better if you hear all the evidence. There is nothing against the accused as it stands.” ET revenge murder charges withdrawn

The family’s lawyer, Boela van der Merwe, said the wrong message had been sent about his clients to the community of Primrose.

“The whole matter was not properly investigated. As the magistrate said, there will be mud on someone’s face.

“People jumped to the wrong conclusions.”

But you see… this is how propaganda works. Because the articles that were originally posted, were on the front pages all over the world. But then when the people were acquitted, the international media never mentioned it. They have slung the mud and some stuck… they are not going to wash it off now.

They achieved exactly what they wanted to. The vilification and blackening of the White South African, especially the Afrikaners.

Letter to Commonwealth on anti-Afrikaner human rights violations

From: Dan Roodt <dan@praag.org>
Date: 2012/6/22
Subject: Urgent: Human rights violations in South Africa
To: secretary-general@commonwealth.int

His Excellency Mr. Kamalesh Sharma
Secretary-General
Commonwealth of Nations
Marlborough House, Pall Mall,
London SW1Y 5HX, UK

Dear Sir,

I wish to bring to your urgent attention the systemic violations of human rights taking place in South Africa, a member country of the Commonwealth.

Yesterday 24 shops belonging to Pakistani nationals, another member country, were ransacked and burnt to the ground in the town of Viljoenskroon, as reported by the South African Press Association (SAPA).

The New York Times has also reported on the many extra-judicial killings taking place against Commonwealth subjects in South Africa, such as Malawians, Mozambicans and Zimbabweans. Although Zimbabwe is no longer a member of the Commonwealth, its citizens should not be subjected to murder and ethnic persecution in South Africa, one of the founding members of the Commonwealth.

I am writing to you on behalf of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group, an Afrikaner NGO in South Africa. Afrikaners are an indigenous people in South Africa and we are asking your protection, as well as that of Queen Elizabeth II, against the systemic violation of human rights that we are suffering from. These transgressions include the following:

racial discrimination in jobs, education and access to capital
language and cultural discrimination
murder, extra-judicial killings and ethnic persecution
rape of our women and girls
displacement from our traditional lands and farms
forcible transfer of children from our group to the South African group through anglicisation, indoctrination and assimilation
interference in our traditional schools and educational practices so as to break them down and prevent the transmission of our language, culture and identity to the next generation
vandalism directed against our heritage, museums, literature, arts and historic sites through neglect, lack of funding or willful destruction
name changes of towns, streets and places to eradicate our heritage and historical presence in South Africa

I trust that you will respond favourably to our request for help in addressing the human rights crisis in South Africa and our right to be protected from the above-mentioned violations.

I humbly ask you to acknowledge receipt of this letter sent by e-mail.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Dan Roodt

Director, Pro-Afrikaans Action Group (PRAAG)

Beaten Afrikaners becoming an international symbol

by Dan Roodt

Last week ANC leaders had another braai or luncheon with representatives of Afrikaans organisations. A few vacuous statements were made afterwards but as usual nothing really happened.

Why on earth does the ANC still talk to Afrikaners and Afrikaans organisations when they have absolutely zero political influence? one wonders. King Mswati III of Swaziland has much more clout as he heads up an independent nation with a seat at the UN, even if he has to beg South Africa for a few billion rand to pay his civil servants.

The fact is that Afrikaners were thoroughly beaten during the 1980’s by what I call the Afro-Saxon alliance of the exiled ANC and the English-speaking intellectuals, as well as the Anglican Church and some very influential British people. In the nineteen-eighties, that alliance mounted a superbly orchestrated propaganda campaign against the National Party that toppled it from power and condemned Afrikaners to becoming more or less internal immigrants.

Today most Afrikaners feel alienated, wondering about their role in a country that is increasingly leaving them behind in language, culture and mentality. Even the DA is changing Afrikaner names in Cape Town to more acceptable Afro-Saxon equivalents.

Yet the National Party refuses to die, apparently. Despite being merged with the ANC under Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the many Afrikaner groups and institutions that used to be under its wing are still fighting for standing room on the Titanic.

Just think of the mighty Naspers, South Africa’s biggest media group. Once upon a time strategic decisions at Naspers were made by the cabinet and not the company itself. Despite being commercially successful, Naspers is still having a political identity crisis, unsure whether it should support the moderate faction of the ANC or the DA. Its newspapers like Beeld, Die Burger and Rapport, have abolished the word “Afrikaner” and replaced it with “Afrikaanse”, a term denoting a person of uncertain identity who might sometimes speak a few words of Afrikaans.

You have already grasped that everybody in South Africa is in some sense an “Afrikaanse”. Whenever you say “boerewors” or “lekker”, you are promoted – or perhaps demoted – to this rather lowly species of humanity.

There is also the publicity-hungry Solidarity trade union, run by some ex-Conservative Party Youth members. However, the Solidarity and Afriforum boys now despise their former right-wing ideas and are more or less in line with Naspers’s flight from identity. They are short on ideas and long on complaints about corruption, farm murders, service delivery and the other seemingly insoluble ills that plague postapartheid South Africa.

Mr. FW de Klerk, who is no longer popular with Afrikaners, still attempts to keep a hand on the tiller by means of his eponymous foundation that sometimes issues strongly-worded reprimands whenever the ANC threatens to change the constitution.

Like a vampire leaving his coffin after dark, the National Party and its brand of compromising, opportunistic politics still haunt the disparate and squabbling Afrikaner groups that hold incessant meetings and issue statements that the media routinely ignore.

But while South Africa has lurched to the left since 1994, fraternising with and subsidising Cuba, odd things are happening in the rest of the world. When I lived in France two decades ago, only two percent of Frenchmen voted for the right-wing National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen. In last Sunday’s presidential elections, his daughter Marine Le Pen polled a whopping twenty percent. Clearly, nationalist politics has suddenly become mainstream in France, as it has in many other European countries. Russia, too, has become a hot-bed of nationalism and young Russians engage in some form of “white pride”.

Like Marie-Antoinette’s death under the guillotine, the Afrikaners’ abject fall from grace – with radical land reform still to come – has become a kind of symbol. The news is out in the USA, in Holland, Italy, Russia and other countries, that this is what happens when whites become a minority in their own country. You have violence and permanent affirmative action.

Farm murders are probably not a white genocide, but certainly many people internationally already believe that, which is enough. Afrikaners have now become the victims of ANC rule and many books are being written about their plight.

One such volume is Ilana Mercer’s Into the Cannibal’s Pot – Lessons for America from Postapartheid South Africa. Ms. Mercer, a resident of Idaho but having grown up in SA, is highly intelligent and writes in a brilliant polemical style. She is worth ten or twenty FW de Klerk Foundations.

Another American who has taken up the Afrikaner cause is Jared Taylor of the American Renaissance group. His book White identity – racial consciousness in the 21st century will shortly be published in SA too. It deals with American racial identities, but resonates deeply with South Africa where 94% of black people vote en bloc for the ruling ANC. This is according to a recent Ipsos-Markinor poll.

As ever, South Africa finds itself at the heart of the world’s problems when it comes to racial and ethnic coexistence. In the past it was to the detriment of Afrikaners and white South Africans generally. Perhaps this time we could take solace from that inescapable fact.

PRAAG supports Dutch-Afrikaner cooperation in struggle for street names

PRAAG supports the call by the Dutch Freedom Party for Dutch and Afrikaner people to stand together in defending their shared cultural heritage as embodied in Pretoria’s street names.

Queen Wilhelmina is remembered for her courageous support for the Boers during the Second War of Independence when colonial Britain destroyed our country and let our women in children die in concentration camps. Similarly, Queen Beatrix did much to enhance the standing of Afrikaans culture in the Netherlands and we recall her reign as a time when warm relations existed between our two nations.

Through its name changes the ANC is embracing the worst aspects of the British colonial tradition. For the first time in history an indigenous Western nation, the Afrikaner, is being oppressed and culturally humiliated by a colonial organisation like the ANC.

We appeal to all Afrikaners and Dutch people to resist the new Lords in Munitoria and the Union Buildings.

Pat Buchanan and MSNBC’s pygmy

“The ideas he put forth aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much less the dialogue on MSNBC.” So decreed MSNBC president Phil Griffin about Patrick J. Buchanan’s grand historical synthesis, “Suicide of a Superpower: Will American Survive to 2025?” Mr. Griffin was justifying the booting from the network of one of the last authentic conservatives in mainstream media.

If I were not already persona non grata within the mainstream, I would be worried.

In an exchange with this writer, Mr. Buchanan had mentioned that his “18,000-word chapter on ethnonationalism and tribalism and the surge of both throughout the Third World—as well as our own declining world—tracks pretty much with what” I had written in my book, “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa,” published in May of 2011.

Buchanan’s towering text concludes as follows: “We were one nation. We spoke the same language, learned the same history, celebrated the same heroes, observed the same holy days and holidays … were taught the same truths about right and wrong, good and evil, God and country. We were a people then. That America is gone. Many grieve her passing. Many rejoice. But we are not a people anymore.” (Page 424.)

America, as Mr. Buchanan observes, was eaten away by the acid of the 1960s revolution, “with its repudiation of Christian morality and embrace of secularism and egalitarian ideology.” South Africa was relatively unaffected by that revolution. It was a staunchly traditional Christian country. Stores closed on Sundays. Television came late to the place but so did pornography and the gay-rights movement. In South Africa, the influence of Christianity receded after the 1994 democratic transition.

Whereas “Americans are no longer a people,” by contrast, the Afrikaners, as illustrated in “Into the Cannibal’s Pot,” still linger as a people, clinging to what Barack Obama would indubitably deride as their Bibles, their guns and their bigotries.

Dubbed the white tribe of Africa, this organic nation has, however, ceased to exist as a nation-state, dissolved by democratic decree. The sundering of state sovereignty has, in turn, exposed Afrikaners to ethnic cleansing, a familiar feature of democracy a la Africa.

Despite the Afrikaner’s superior military prowess, they simply “surrendered without defeat.” Ferocious though it was, the South African Defence Force (SADF) ceded to the African National Congress and its representatives. “You, me and our men can take this country in an afternoon,” said former Chief of the SADF General Contand Viljoen, famously, to the reigning Chief, General George Meiring. He uttered this comment as President de Klerk prepared to cave into ANC demands, forgoing all checks and balances for South Africa’s Boer, British and Zulu minorities. Yet, the very same Afrikaner people, in the same spirit, went on to peacefully dismantle the six nuclear devices they had built at Pelindaba, west of the capital, Pretoria.

Why did the mighty SADF capitulate to Mandela’s ragtag ANC? Why did the tough descendants of the trek Boers, who have 350 years of history on the continent of Africa—as long as their American cousins have been in North America—give up their birthright for a mess of pottage?

Since it all makes so little sense, my conclusions are more philosophical than factual.

RECONCILING PIETISM WITH POWER

Some clues as to why WASP (white Protestant Anglo-Saxon) societies tend to wither from within are offered by W. de Klerk (no relation to the traitor president). In “The Puritans In Africa,” de Klerk devotes his authorial energies to fleshing out the archetypal Afrikaner with an almost forensic objectivity. The tragedy of the Afrikaner and the American—a function of a shared Calvinist-Puritan ancestry—is the struggle to reconcile Pietism with power:”

The basic dilemma of Western man is how to reconcile power with justice. … Those within the Calvinist-Puritan ethic, who secretly yearn for power, find it impossible to do so openly and unashamedly. … Naked power… is not possible for Western Christian man, especially of Calvinist-Puritan leanings. … For Puritan man, the quest for power—a quest very much alive—cannot be an open bid for supremacy,” but, rather, has to be “power acceptable in Christian terms”; it must be power driven by a devotion to a “great ideal.”

The Afrikaner’s “great ideal” was ineluctably tied to enduring as a biblically sanctified nation. However, if national endurance was to be accomplished, the exercise of power would be absolutely essential. Apartheid was the political superstructure within which the Volk sought safety for what they saw as their divinely ordained sovereignty. But the “exceedingly tough” Puritan mind was crippled by a correspondingly “tender conscience.” This “great ideal” had turned the Boers into something they detested.

The people who had fought imperial Britain in Africa’s first anti-colonial war were now lords and masters of their own satrapies: the African Bantustans. Soon, the biblically blessed country became an Ishmael, an outcast. Charges of racism were especially difficult to withstand and rationalize. Petty perhaps, but no less intolerable for these South-African Spartans was their banishment from sparring in international sports. Patriots that they are, Afrikaners resented being expected to feel ashamed of their country. Puritans that they were, the resentment soon turned inward.

As an abstraction, the ostensive grand ideal of separate but equal development failed to reconcile power with justice. True to type, the Puritans of Africa relinquished the former to achieve the latter.Upon the American mind, Puritanism has left a very different mark. While the Afrikaner’s “great ideal” turned him into an outcast, America’s messianic calling made it a crusader for democracy.

The U.S.’s asserted exceptionalism gave imprimatur to its expansionism. The American Puritanical toughness has manifested itself primarily in never-ending expeditions overseas. Its corresponding—and paradoxical—Puritanical “tenderness” has culminated in a national death-wish: mandating multiculturalism and mass immigration at home, while pursuing a monoculturalist Manifest Destiny abroad. These are two sides of the same coin.

Thus has the United States become “an empire of liberty,” and a contradiction-in-terms. Thus has the US been hoisted on its own petard, its “great ideal” harboring the seeds of its own destruction. That the pygmy from MSNBC prefers not to speak about this reality does nothing to change it.