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)
