Dear libtards, aren’t you attracted by Zimbabwe?

Dear libtards,

Every other week, someone of your persuasion, either a feminist or antiracist or a professor of whiteness studies or cultural Marxist writes an open letter starting with “Dear white people”, containing a blast of inanities.

This seems to be some kind of fashion or trend, probably copied from someone in the USA or Great Britain. It is not that you have any appreciation for the open letter or all those European philosophical treatises (or novels even) utilising the epistolary form. After all, libtardism starts where Westernism of Europeanism leaves off. As Jakes Gerwel, after whom a boulevard has just been renamed in Cape Town by the DA in all its politically correct fervour, once said: “We need an African renaissance. The only outcome of the European one was apartheid.”

roodt_fbfotoDante, Michelangelo, German Idealism, the French philosophes, Baroque art, Beethoven and Mozart, all of that stuff is quite worthless to you as you are dedicated precisely to putting an end not only to all white culture but to the white race itself. Reading the nonsensical obituaries to André Brink, or André P. Brink as he is known in Afrikaans, these last few days, I am struck by the fact that no-one had enquired why he had had, not only countless mistresses and six wives, but six white wives. Does that not, by definition — and from the libtard perspective — make him a racist? After all, there are tens of millions of women of colour in this country, of various sizes and shapes, not to mention nationalities. Surely, if he had been a sincere libtard himself, as he so often professed to be, he would have found at least one of them who struck his fancy? Instead, he stuck to his own race, the much-maligned white race, and committed marriage no less than six times with a woman that the American system labels “Caucasian”. Not Asian, Caucasian. And with a person of the opposite sex, whereas he might very well have married someone of his own sex, desire being polymorphously perverse as Freud and many of his more hip followers have stated so often.

That leads me to my first gripe with you libtards who insist on polluting the airwaves and the newspaper columns – you seem to have a complete monopoly on what is known as the MSM or “mainstream media” – with your righteous appeals for more affirmative action, more “transformation”, more equality, more censorship of dissident opinions, more punishment for the racists and the politically incorrect, and more lenient treatment of the criminals who terrorise us here in South Africa: why do you not practise what you preach? Why do all you libtards live in majority-white or middle-class areas with private security guards, armed response and all the unnecessary and “paranoid” accoutrements of “privatised apartheid” as many of you have called it? Why do you not live in all those interesting, colourful – not to forget “vibrant” – communities whose virtues you extol in all of your litanies against racism, sexism, patriarchy and whiteness? Places that go by the names of Soweto, Alexandra, Diepsloot, the same Diepsloot about which the “doyen of South African journalism, professor Anton Harber” wrote an eponymous eulogy in book form?

Or is hypocrisy, like “non-racialism”, “non-sexism”, “non-genderism” and all the other non-creeds you cite ad nauseam, a basic tenet of libtardism? For example, some American study found that 96% of liberal journalists lived in majority-white areas. I still remember that Mad Max du Preez, the renegade Afrikaner and fanatical libtard, exhorted all whites to go and live in the black townships about fifteen years ago in the Rapport. Alas, Max himself never set the example. So what is this, are all libtards… God forbid, racist? But don’t sell your house in Parkhurst or your equally cosy little flat in Sea Point yet, I have a much better idea which should become clearer in a moment.

Let’s admit it: South Africa is a divided country and getting more divided by the day. Compounding the already strong ethnic and linguistic divisions in South Africa, is the ideological division. It used to be Left-Right, but nowadays I would call it Libtard-Normal. I know, I know, I have read Michel Foucault, in French to boot, and a few of his American disciples, so I know that normality or being normalised is a very bad thing. Being a scizophrenic or a car hijacker is so much better than being an accountant with a nine-to-five job and firmly heterosexual tendencies. As some author said not so long ago on television in Paris: “I’m white, heterosexual and Catholic. How horrible!” Normality, middle-class values, conservatism, the nuclear family, of all that stuff, it’s nothing less than a disease. And the cure is libtardism or amoral fundamentalism, the constant din of proselytising near-hysteria screamed at us every day. Racist! Sexist! Apartheid nostalgist! And all the other epithets and insults you constantly hurl at us.

This is purely an aside and please do not take it seriously. (On the other hand, I know that you never take seriously anything said by anyone other than a fellow convert, someone of the faith, a coreligionist in libtardism.) But most religions, at least until now, have tried to get converts by being nice to people, giving them a free meal or helping the poor. In our crumbling state hospitals there are Muslim women wearing head scarves and handing out sandwiches to everyone as a sign of their faith and their values, for example. However, libtardism is the only creed I know of where its adherents try to win the heathen masses over by making them feel bad about themselves, by insulting them, slandering them, calling them stupid oafs, fascists, racists, and so on. So even if you are by some miracle making converts, you are making at least as many enemies and I can assure you that most of us normal people are starting to get really irritated with you. If only we were so cruel, reactionary and dangerous as you make us out to be, we would long ago have posted a few snipers outside the offices of your newspapers or hidden in the trees on your sidewalk and at least silenced some of the most strident and hysterical warmongers among you.

But we are tolerant, unlike you. Which is why South Africa is in the mess it is in. Because for too long the libtard in his position of power in the media or the academy or in the more ideological departments of Big Business, has been getting away with murder, sometimes literally. The libtard or the Marxist view of South African history with its simplistic notions of “stolen land”, “white evil” and the “apartheid holocaust” in itself leads to revenge and violence.

While most conservatives have to work for a living, you libtards spend your days in cafés or in luxury hotels where you may be seen typing away on your brand-new Apple Powerbook i7’s obligingly provided by some educational institution or NGO. That is another amazing characteristic of libtards: while they profess an abhorrence of capitalism, they are slaves to brands and look down upon us non-Apple-owning plebs who vulgarly buy PC components, including second-hand ones, to build our own no-name-brand machines, powered by open-source software that require right-wing skills such as a basic knowledge of Unix commands to operate. Libtards know something about the differentiations between Hegelian and structural Marxism, but have no notion whether their motherboards have Intel 1150 or 1155 sockets. Apart from PC slogans which you learn off by heart, ignorance is bliss in your libtard world.

Probably most people in this country would just like to get on with their lives, have a job, raise children, watch or play a bit of sport without racial quotas. But thanks to your zeal and fanaticism, no normal society in South Africa is possible anymore. Like in the former Soviet Union, Mao’s China or Castro’s Cuba, everything is now subject to social engineering, bureaucratic oversight, political correctness and control. The tragicomic demise of Zelda La Grange who had tried for years to speak and act like a libtard, carrying her white guilt on her sleeve, is a case in point. The soupçon of being politically incorrect in a Tweet sealed her fate and led to an outburst of libtard rage, exemplified by the usual shrieks of “racism”, “whiteness” and the two or three other concepts that libtardism deems to be sinful and evil. Sniffing out the impure ones is of course part of every revolution and in South Africa the process is getting more and more intense.

That is why South Africa is bound to end up on the scrapheap as just another African basket case, a Mozambique after Samora Machel’s Marxist-Leninist revolution or the post-Mobutu DRC. As I tweeted the other day to Helen Zille who has herself become a freedom fighter of libtardism, shooting her paint gun with the word “racist” appearing all around her as in some cartoon world, South African now runs on ideology. No matter what happens to Eskom, to the economy, to law and order, the price of food and energy, everything pales into insignificance next to the exigencies of revolution, transformation and egalitarianism.

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I am less worried by an imminent ethnic conflict than by violence breaking out between libtards and normal people. The intolerance of you libtards toward dissent is stoking real tension. This is especially the case among Afrikaners. The last time there was a minor Boer civil war was in 1860 when forty people died in a shoot-out on the outskirts of Potchefstroom. The incident was to haunt Paul Kruger for years as he had to to give the order to return fire after the first shots were fired by the rebels. Afrikaans libtards are even worse than the anglophone variety: people like Adriaan Basson, Max du Preez and Piet Croucamp harbour such an intense hatred towards the conservative majority of Afrikaners that they are intent upon destroying the few remaining Afrikaans institutions, including schools and universities, that still enable Afrikaners to survive in a hostile, charged environment. Being the most dominated ethnic group in South Africa, the libtard-normal division there is at its most intense, exemplified by banning our most popular singer, Steve Hofmeyr, from arts festivals and the general imposition of censorship on dissidents, the suppression of their books and articles, attacks (including cyberattacks) on their websites, witchhunts at work, etc. So the prospect of an identity war among Afrikaners is not as far-fetched as it may sound, which might ultimately drag the rest of South Africa down with it.

At a certain level, you libtards hate South Africa. You have always hated our country and were happiest when you could call for boycotts against us and could plant car bombs in our streets or shrapnel bombs in our restaurants. So this kind of uneasy peace does not sit well with you. Little by little, you are realising that the country will never change, that people are set in their habits and cling to their traditions like you cling to your vacuous belief system.

Your ideal for South Africa is a kind of New York on the Vaal where everybody is a gay or transgender communist living off Scandinavian aid or World Bank loans and most of the economic activity consists of diversity workshops for which you libtards will claim fees big enough to drive Range Rover Sports. In this libtard utopia Marx and Engels will meet Goldman Sachs and everybody will live off zero-interest perpetual bonds and members of the nomenklatura will lord it over the equalised, non-racial, non-sexist masses who will be largely illiterate and believe everything you say.

It must be clear to you that this utopia is never going to happen. Public debts, like the body count due to the breakdown of law and order, are mounting. The middle class that you wanted to destroy is resisting by inventing their own virtual society on social media and the internet. Dare I remind you that large numbers of people are talking back to you, the sacerdotal class of the revolution, our lords whose wisdom we are not supposed to question?

A divided house cannot stand, as they say. If South Africa is to escape the current quagmire, something needs to happen. Either you should go the tried and trusted route of the left-wing revolutionary and commit genocide against us by rounding us all up, working us to death in gulags or simply shooting everyone suspected of questioning your precepts, or you should give up on the idea of “transforming” South Africa altogether. Given your libtard capacity for organisation and the current state of your military, if I were you, I would not opt for civil war against the millions of remaining conservatives, Afrikaners, traditional Africans and others who are still ideologically very impure, to the point of being racists, sexists or at least irredeemably politically incorrect.

However, a solution is at hand, I believe. There is one country in Southern Africa where the struggle for equality, non-racialism and non-sexism has been largely achieved: Zimbabwe. Comrade Robert Mugabe has indeed eradicated whiteness in most of its forms, literally by removing all white farmers and imposing a strict “indigenisation” policy. On the debit side, Zimbabwe is not exactly a model of enlightenment when it comes to “gender” and I doubt whether American-style “queer theory” is yet a compulsory subject at the University of Harare. But no society is perfect. The challenge for you libtards is to “move” the Zimbabwean transformation project “forward”, as you are wont to put it and “challenge the last vestiges of patriarchy” which may or may not remain in that otherwise “progressive” country.

“Thy hinterland lies there” as the inscription reads on the Rhodes statue in Rondebosch, next to the University of Cape Town where large numbers of fanatical libtards labour in the politically correct monasteries for a better world without race, sex or social hierarchy.

Soon Mr. Mugabe may pass the baton to his wife, Grace, which will in itself cheer the feminists of the world, including the South African ones who would be delighted to go and serve a female president. Why commit to an unlikely quest for utopia in the land of apartheid, gated communities, rugby, koeksisters, boerewors and Die Stem when you could experience the instant bliss of liberation in an already “postcolonial” society?

Ja, man, you must have noticed that one. As Saul Bellow says somewhere in his novel Herzog, “the word sensibility later made it big”. That was in the USA. Among South African libtards, “postcolonial” has made it big. I would say it is even compulsory to use it all the time, just like you have to be quick on the draw in crushing any dissent out there by shouting “racist” with a megaphone or preferably on the eight o’clock TV news.

Just imagine. If Bob had to go and meet his maker at last and Grace had to succumb to the charms of her own sex and perhaps become Zimbabwe’s first openly gay president, it could be libtard heaven. Sexism, racism and whiteness would all have been vanquished and the entire Zimbabwean economy could consist of transgender or postcolonial advocacy groups spreading the good news on a planetary scale. Sweden and Norway would provide most of the state budget and Oxfam would dish out free food, paid for by private British and other donors. Not to forget the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Everyone would drive around in black Range Rovers running on a Chinese energy subsidy as Harare would now be the intellectual capital of Africa, nay the world, with so many self-proclaimed libtard genii assembled in one city. In fact, many foreign governments would compete to donate money to Zimbabwe which would consist of one gigantic network of ultraliberal and Marxist NGOs, media and universities where all departments except Whiteness, Gender and Postcolonialism would be abolished.

No self-respecting libtard would want to share a country with Steve Hofmeyr anyway. This place is only worth boycotting or fleeing from, blighted as it is by 360 years of apartheid and colonialism. As Allister Sparks put it, he is “ashamed of his nationality”. Aren’t you?

Not only shall we at last enjoy some kind of social peace and no-one on crack cocaine would hoot at you in the morning traffic screaming “you racist, sexist bastard” anymore, but north of the Limpopo a truly new, exciting society will be flourishing. The UN will consecrate Harare as the permanent home of the World Conference Against Racism that last took place – ironically – in Durban, a city divided along race and class lines. Property prices will go through the roof as libtards from South Africa and all over the world will scramble to stake a claim in Harare like the hippies once descended on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district.

South Africa would avoid the fate of Syria with a potential libtard-normal civil war breaking out and Zimbabwe would gain thousands of postcolonial, postracial, postgender, post-anything people with high self-esteem and global media connections.

Sounds like a win-win situation to me, don’t you think?


Apartheid will never die because the Left needs it

On New Year’s eve, the acrimonious tone of South African public debate seems to have become even more pronounced. Just yesterday another stereotypical cultural-Marxist piece by Professor Anton van Niekerk appeared in Afrikaans on the Netwerk24 site and already conservatives are up in arms regarding his defence of permanent affirmative action and half-truths about “apartheid”, with at least three substantial responses in less than 24 hours.

danr2Even gracing the exchange of accusations, recriminations and the perennial whipping out of the race card in South Africa with the noble term, “debate”, represents a malapropism. Under left-wing, racially-obsessed government, South Africa has descended into witch hunts, invective and farce with even our venerable parliament that used to command respect in the old days now becoming a theatre of puerile, hysterical and often physical clashes. Whereas before South Africa was caricatured as a citadel of moral rectitude and Sunday observance, not to mention strict obedience to the law, it is now the most violent country in the world with at least 50 000 homicides taking place every year. Theft and robberies are so commonplace nowadays that they are no longer reported to the police, except where insurance companies require it for claims.

Whoever may be in charge in South Africa – and it is certainly not our incompetent, venal government mired in corruption scandals – must be desperate to defend un unworkable system. That is why the mantra of “apartheid” is being recited with ever greater fervour by the Marxist and liberal Left in this country. Apartheid, or “separate development” as the old government used to call it, is not only a divine or occult source of evil that perdures in the present but also a deus ex machina conveniently invoked to explain every instance of political failure. When the lights went off due to the incompetence of our state-owned electricity utility, financially plundered and abused by greedy, corrupt bureaucrats, the state president was quick to invoke “the legacy of apartheid”.

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It gets worse. There is now such a thing as “apartheid denial”, of which both Steve Hofmeyr and I will soon be accused in a court of law, no less. Apartheid has another useful function: it justifies censorship and the suppression of facts about the present communist-inspired catastrophe known as the “New South Africa”. We all know what the “new” looks like after revolution, if we recall the French, Russian, Chinese, Cambodian and other revolutions. Apparently, a group of left-wing lawyers in Johannesburg from the firm Webber Wentzel have decided that no-one will be allowed to voice any opinion or cite any facts about history before 1994 without first putting it through the cultural-Marxist filter and making sure it embellishes their preposterous tale of pristine black innocence and white evil.

Helen Zille, the left-liberal leader of the “official opposition” in parliament – in South Africa you have a choice between voting liberal, Marxist or lunatic-Marxist – subtly blames whites for the post-1994 explosion of violence in South Africa when she says:

We must show the courage to challenge any social reinforcement for racist behaviour, because small acts of intolerance have the potential to manifest in more despicable acts of aggression and degradation as we see all too often.

When a blacks torture or hurt whites, even a baby as was recently reported by the Beeld newspaper, whites are to blame. That is the gist of Zille’s and cultural-Marxist discourse in South Africa. And if you question that dogma, as some of us are wont to do, you are an ogre, a racist, an “apartheid denialist” in the language of Webber Wentzel’s band of legal inquisitors.

What Zille understands under “challenge” is a euphemism for vilification, censorship and persecution. If you deviate from the cultural-Marxist canon of South African history, you will be fined, imprisoned or both. That is what is being planned for us and Zille’s “liberal” DA – which has of course as little to do with classical liberalism as Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge had to do with democracy – will support these draconian measures to suppress our free speech.

However, at least one or two liberals are starting to see that the cultural-Marxist insistence on a pervasive, ubiquitous notion of “metaphysical apartheid” may not ultimately serve their cause. About ten days ago in the Business Day newspaper, Hans Pienaar wrote that the overuse of the term “apartheid” by his fellow liberals and leftists has now become counter-productive:

But the fact is “apartheid” has become just another “big word”, a tool that is now too blunt and bent for useful analysis.

While it can still serve as a label for tourists and campaigners, it narrows the debate too much and its ambiguities allow all its beneficiaries, white and black, to get off the hook of their conscience.

Whatever that last phrase might mean. Perhaps it is an oblique reference to white guilt, but he seems to open the door to black guilt too, which would in itself constitute a heresy that could land him in the “apartheid denial” court with me and Steve Hofmeyr soon.

In my Afrikaans novel Moltrein the narrator remarks somewhere that the word “apartheid” has been emblazoned on the globe like a gargantuan graffito, which will forever disturb meanings in South Africa. In a way, Pienaar is vaguely – and belatedly – cottoning on to that calamitous inheritance of decades of leftist propaganda and stereotyping.

To analyse history and to cite certain unpalatable facts, e.g. that no-one ever “withheld education from blacks”, is to stand accused of Orwellian thoughtcrime and “apartheid denialism” that Webber Wentzel’s lawyers want to equate to “holocaust denial” which must be similarly banned by means of German-style legal punishments for the crime of “denialism”.

In Anton van Niekerk’s article, which was published in its longer form in a peer-reviewed journal, no less, he states:

While white people in right-wing circles fulminate about smart, white youngsters who may no longer obtain easy admission to fields of study like medicine, we forget far too quickly that until relatively late in the 20th century black people did not have access to any South Africa university, let alone medicine. (My translation from the original Afrikaans – DR)

This is, of course, an outright lie. But the cultural-Marxist myth of “apartheid” as pure white evil has been so well-established in the media and at the universities that few would dare to challenge such a statement. However, the mood of the “white man in the street” or especially the white in front of his keyboard has soured to such an extent that policing “apartheid denialism” is becoming a well-nigh impossible task, as evidenced by the myriad of irate responses to Van Niekerk’s article.

For example, writing on the commentary section of Afrikaans praag, Joseph Secrève, dug up the following article from the Johannesburg newspaper The Star, published on 21 June 1947:

“First Native Woman to Qualify as Doctor

Mary Susan Malahlele, a soft spoken, pleasant faced Bapedi woman, took the Hippocratic Oath at the University of the Witwatersrand to-day as the first Native woman doctor to qualify in the Union of South Africa.
[…]
Dr. Malahlele will spend a year as a house doctor at the McCord Mission Hospital in Durban, and then plans to practice in the Pretoria area.

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Malahlele, of Roodepoort, where Mr. Malahlele is principal of the Native Primary School said they were very proud of their daughter when a representative of The Star met them to-day at the Douglas Smit Hostel – the residence for non-European medical students of the university.”

A whole university with fine facilities, MEDUNSA (the Medical University of South Africa), was built by the previous white government to train black doctors, as well as the Natal Medical School, with thousands of black doctors also being trained at the multiracial Universities of the Witwatersrand and Cape Town at the time. The first university for blacks in South Africa, Fort Hare, was established in 1916! Among its alumni are to be found many of Africa’s radical and revolutionary leaders, such as Nelson Mandela, Robert Mugabe, communist leader Chris Hani and others (see Wikipedia article). If whites had sinned at all, it was in training and educating their future enemies in the mistaken belief that their generosity and benevolence would be repaid in kind.

In the very near future, even mentioning such historical facts which anyone may read on Wikipedia, may become punishable crimes in South Africa as leftist intolerance grows and “apartheid denial” is criminalised, either by parliament or the activist judges of the Constitutional Court that unilaterally abolished the death penalty for murder and legalised same-sex marriages, against the wishes of the majority of the South African population, be they white or black.

Another reason why white liberals/cultural Marxists needs to wave the straw man of apartheid in front of us, is because they are fast losing control of the ANC which is becoming an ethnically black and Zulu party. Hence too, the current verbal attack by the liberal Max du Preez on South African president Jacob Zuma. Ironically, the South African government has described Du Preez’s article as “racist”, a case of the pot calling the kettle black. After having made a complete mess of South Africa, white leftists need a scapegoat. Either it will be whites in general – especially conservative whites who are completely without political influence – or it will be the titular head of the one-party state that liberals had wanted for us in the first place, Jacob Zuma, the dancing Zulu.

Blaming whites and metaphysical apartheid will however take precedence, as usual.


The geopolitics of South Africa’s puppet scandals

To say that popular singer Steve Hofmeyr and author Dan Roodt are targeted by the South African media monopoly, is putting it mildly. They are hounded and smeared daily by paid employees on social media.

With senior staff now openly revolting against Media24, most journalists are searching for new horizons in a job market reeling from the internet.

The only other paying jobs that are not in newsprint are websites flush with Soros money. It thus pays to be a basher of anything sane and conservative.

So sharing deep thoughts with local neo-cons whose articles, full of wishful thinking, are just as short-lived as the latest “racist scandal” editors dream up in an effort to cover up the inevitable decline.

The current malaise is linked to BRICS of which South Africa is a member. Neo-cons tell their stooges in the media giant that America and China will reshape the world order, but only last week China picked Russia and officially recognized the Crimean referendum.

Media24’s official Russia-basher Leopold Scholtz, reporting from the EU, was again refuted by developments in Germany just days ago. He keeps pretending not to notice the earth moving beneath his feet.

So the Steve-and-Dan smear campaign has gained momentum in order not to tackle the large elephant in the room.

A pock-faced jester was even hauled out to spout libel and vile insults, taunting the two Afrikaners in the latest desperate attempt to incite racial animosity or whatever it is that will not dig the printed news hole deeper.

As readers also found out last week, Merkel’s Brisbane speech may actually bring in a major shift in German politics. Afrikaners adore Germans, even though they hate Nazis. A shift from a long phase of Merkel’s undisputed leadership to one where she gets increasingly challenged by furious industrialists, is afoot.

Scholtz – his father was historian to the architect of Apartheid Verwoerd, ironically – has become accustomed to framing Afrikaners as Nazis in tendentious articles, a distinctly anti-German and Atlanticist pastime. But failing to find actual evidence, he has had to invent it with the help of a devious editor from one dwindling sheet called Beeld.

A recent Der Spiegel cover on the G20 read “Summit of Failure: How the EU lost Russia over Ukraine”, making Scholtz’s task all the more difficult to paint Afrikaners as Nazis and rant on about Russian aggression.

Signed, in an unprecedented move, by Spiegel Staff as a whole – hence indicating an overall editorial stance – the leading article refused to blame Putin for the Ukraine crisis. It instead blamed Merkel, Scholtz’s darling.

Just as Merkel’s political opponents smell victory, Germany’s leading weekly equates Merkel’s faults to Putin’s. But the turn-around will not be smooth for Media24, a blind neo-con sycophant.

And just a week earlier, ARD had given 30 minutes of airtime to Putin, who was finally able put forward his views in full before a major Western audience. ARD’s editorial decision was also unprecedented.

Meanwhile senior German politicians endorsed the Russian annexation of Crimea.

The Anglo-American media retaliated at full tilt, screeching with indignation: “Why Angela Merkel is saying farewell to Ostpolitik”.

Had they been interested in journalism, and reporting instead of Russia-bashing and race-baiting, they would have asked some pertinent questions about South Africa, BRICS and Europe.

Scholtz, who fancies himself as an honorary re-educated German, is strangely mum, pointing to the fact that there is no editiorial independance from neo-con manipulation in South Africa.

From the English press in the country Atlantic subservience is a given and a constant, but Afrikaners thrive on anti-colonialism and independence.

The big cheeses in Media24 would rather like to forget that fact and concentrate on ad hominem tags.

How more subservient to the US, and deaf to their own readers and businesses, can a media monopoly become? Especially when Afrikaner farmers are killed by the thousands and white crosses dot the countryside marking their torture and demise.

The resentment that Media24’s stubborn Atlanticism and anglophilia arouses among ordinary Afrikaners is thus an old story from our concentration camp past from Aliwal North to Bethulie, Balmoral and the long list of wanton destruction, rape and war crimes by Englishmen.

The news is that even senior politicians and business leaders are now getting tired of Atlanticism, and this may eventually lead to Media24’s downfall.

In their eagerness to bad mouth Steve and Dan, factual errors are overlooked, and outright lies told. Ordinary Afrikaners inundated the media with complaints, calling their reports inadequate, one-sided and biased. But this has strengthened Media24’s resolve to find a “racist” scapegoat or two and save their Atlanticist neo-colonial project.

They also attack the increasingly economically fragile Afrikaners and accuse them of militaristic nationalism.

In their deluded, scapegoating mood, nobody in the crumbling edifice wants to address the real issues. That alone may go down as a major shift in geopolitics.

Hofmeyr, Roodt vow to fight on for Afrikaans

A magistrate at the Randburg Magistrates Court, Naren Sewnarain, accepted the arguments put forward by Conrad Koch that there exists American-style freedom of speech in South Africa and everyone may insult everyone else in the grossest of manners, as well as wage open cyber war on social media. Harming your opponent in any way you see fit, apart from physically assaulting him, was given the imprimatur of the court.

According to Dr. Dan Roodt of the Pro-Afrikaans Action group said: “Although we lost the case, we succeeded in our strategic aim of safeguarding the popular Afrikaans is Groot concerts from disruption by leftist extremists over the past three weeks. That anyone would want to disrupt peaceful, non-political music concerts simply to score points in the media, shows to what extent conditions in South Africa have already degenerated into low-intensity ethnic conflict between language groups.”

The effect of the judgement, which essentially ignored the statute on harassment in favour of a vague appeal to the constitution, will be greater polarisation between groups in South Africa. Public discourse will deteriorate into invective, vituperation, calumny and other forms of what was euphemistically called “robust” speech.

In statements to the media outside the court, Dr. Dan Roodt of PRAAG said that he and Mr. Steve Hofmeyr were campaigning for a less violent and more decent society.

Evidently, decency is no longer a South African value and we may expect even greater degeneration into harmful campaigns, boycotts, race-baiting and other techniques in the cultural-Marxist arsenal.

Arguing before the magistrate, Mr. Steven Budlender, appearing for Conrad Koch, appeared to equate the previous dispensation in South Africa with Nazism, claiming that large numbers of people were wantonly killed. There was even question of it being forbidden to discuss such “facts” as it amounted to “apartheid denial”, which was akin to “Holocaust denial”.

According to both Hofmeyr and Roodt the day was “hardly a victory for free speech. Instead it was a victory for those who wish to curtail a rational and balanced debate about South African history and wish to drown it out with their hysterical exaggerations and intolerance toward dissenting viewpoints. Nonetheless we will continue to question the manufactured consent that every Afrikaner is a Nazi and that therefore our language, culture and history should simply be effaced from South Africa. We will continue to assert the right to write, sing and create in Afrikaans before our own people, regardless of how offensive a certain radical Nomenklatura might find what is after all a basic human right of all peoples and all cultures.”

ANCYL calls off Hofmeyr protest

Following a dubious campaign to brand Steve Hofmeyr as a “racist” and prohibiting him from performing at the Afrikaans is Groot music concert at the Ned Geref Kerk in Moreleta Park, his enemies have retreated.

The ANC Youth League Greater Tshwane region has postponed its planned action after the city turned down its application to stage a protest at the venue, as the application was not submitted within the prescribed seven working days.

The youth league had called on Afrikaners to reject and isolate the popular musician, saying he was spreading “racism”.

Hofmeyr has been in the spotlight following a tweet that reminded some of a shared racial past: “Sorry to offend but in my books blacks were the architects of apartheid. Go figure.” The popular singer was then accused of being “racist” for stating the obvious.

Almost 60% of blacks voted for homelands during apartheid, before the ANC launched a terror campaign funded from Sweden and Britain to overthrow the government and marginalise whites.

Ironically there are currently two homeland leaders in the regime’s parliament representing homeland constituencies, but it seems that some would rather not have such matters out in the open, hence the attacks on Hofmeyr.

The youth league’s branch spokesperson Justin de Swardt, the only white member, meanwhile branded all Afrikaners as “racists”.

He said it would have been counter-productive to nation-building if there was a physical confrontation between ANC members and the “racists”, a synonym for Afrikaners, if the protest action was held unlawfully.

De Swardt continued his ignorant and malicious verbal attacks against Hofmeyr: “It is extremely abnormal for a public figure to be making statements such as those in the democratic era,” he said. “To say blacks were the architects of apartheid is not only ignorant but highly insensitive.”

Hofmeyr is performing at the concert series which ends this weekend before moving to Cape Town.

After the youth league signalled its intention to protest, the Rubenstein Group – residents of nearby Rubenstein Avenue – indicated it would challenge the matter in court should the application be approved.

The black youth league planned to molest 7 000 white people at the concert venue, to stop the “racists”, a sure formula for disaster.

Afrikaans is Groot spokesman Barnard Beukman welcomed the situation where patrons could attend the gigs in a relaxed atmosphere.

Open letter to Virginia Keppler

You’re not free, Virginia. Your white baas gave you a job. You use his language and you write what he tells you to write.

We take it whence it comes, your tirade against Steve Hofmeyr. The truth is sometimes brutal, but it remains the truth. Steve’s right of course – he knows his history (his people had the written word so things can be checked) while the “others” occupied this continent for millennia and did nothing, absolutely nothing except kill each other and plant a few mealies. No wheel, no written word, no towns, gardens, hospitals, railway lines, factories, shops or any other accoutrements of a civilization worth its salt. Just check out what the early English missionaries found when they ventured into the country’s interior in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They had no political agenda and they wrote as they saw – they sketched primitive people with spears and loin cloths standing outside straw and mud houses. They wrote about their wars and their early deaths because of disease and internecine struggles. There were no title deeds then, so claiming land is now a bit hit and miss, given that there were no records of anything. The white man codified their languages (who else did it?) so being “oppressed” by whites is hardly the way it was.

There is no proof whatsoever that these Africans would have advanced one inch without white influence. Otherwise why didn’t they create a civilization of their own? They had the territory, they had the sun, the rain, the rivers, the green pastures. Oppressed? Give me a break! I would think they should go on their knees every day that the whites came to South Africa first. (What would have happened if the Chinese or the Arabs had got here first? You should shudder to think, Virginia.)

You talk about the black “owners” of this land. How can they prove they owned anything? They didn’t have the written word so no title deeds, no records, no nuttin’. Where’s the proof, Virginia? Aren’t you supposed to back up your journalistic integrity with facts? Or did your white baas tell you you can say what you like because you’re “previously disadvantaged”?

So let’s get down to the basics. Every single thing you own and consume was provided to you by the whites and their civilization. Tell me one thing – one single thing – that occurs in your life that is indigenous to black South Africa? Even your job is courtesy of a white man. The language you speak, the clothes you wear, the food you eat spring from a white civilization. The transport you use, the water from the tap, the electricity lighting your house are not indigenous to Africa. The fact that you are not standing on some dusty red earth watching the Ebola health workers take out your neighbours for burial can be attributed to the fact that you live in a developed South Africa, taking advantage of the solid, first-world health system whose foundations were laid down by the forefathers of the Steve Hofmeyrs of this world. For who else did it? The ANC? They are busy destroying it but that is in their DNA. They are destroyers by nature. Why don’t you fill your newspaper space criticizing them? (And by the way, why can’t Africa look after the Ebola outbreak itself? Why must the white people (and others) of this world rescue them from their cultural backwardness of not knowing how to wash their hands properly?)

Apartheid

You bleat about apartheid! Did you ever think what would have happened to this country without apartheid at the time? As the post-war hordes streamed into the cities looking for work (they can never create work, someone else must give them a job!), where would it have stopped? Our cities then would have become like our cities today, only fifty years earlier! We would have been sitting with a Kwame Nkrumah or a Jacob Zuma fifty years earlier, with all that this implies! Where did Eskom, Sasol, Iscor, our nuclear achievements and one of the world’s most vibrant economies have come from except under apartheid? Unshackled by the huge drain of a welfare state (as we have now), white creativity and entrepreneurship flourished. Did you know that the rand was worth more than the US dollar at that time, that investors streamed into our country because the non-Zumas were in charge? That millions of blacks to the north of us tried to get into the apartheid pariah country?

Like so many of your ilk, you call the truth racial hatred. Well, the whole world must be practising racial hatred because they do all in their power to keep blacks from Africa out of their countries. Why do you think the Australians won’t let aliens even touch their shores? Why are the Italians and the French and the Greeks complaining about too many blacks in their countries? Check out Israel’s policy towards blacks: they are deported en masse and attacked in the streets of Tel Aviv. Why is this?

There are reasons, Virginia and they can be found in the streets of our once pristine South African cities. The fact is that when the blacks move in, the whites move out and this happens all over the world. (Detroit is now filing for bankruptcy for this very reason).

I just loved your “we are twenty years into democracy, into freedom” platitude. Democracy? You’ve got to be kidding! When the country is run from Luthuli House, where not one parliamentarian is responsible to any constituent, and where the so-called government is the worst the country has ever had, there’s not much to be said for democracy. And freedom? Freedom to do what? Pee against someone’s wall? Throw rubbish into our once clean spruits? Murder someone for a cell phone? Live in crowded shacks in a squatter camp because you were “free” to come to a city with no job for you? So that’s freedom is it?

You’re not free, Virginia. Your white baas gave you a job. You use his language and you write what he tells you to write. The “verkrampte regses” are right. Democracy and freedom screwed up big time!

You ask Steve to “pak op en trek”. Why don’t you do this if you’re not happy with the white man’s legacy to this country? How about looking for a job in Zambia? Or Rwanda? Hey, what about Liberia, home of Ebola! This is the country comprising slaves repatriated from the United States. The country has been financed and supported by America ever since – the US couldn’t get them back to Africa fast enough! Liberia has freedom and democracy too, but they don’t even know how to wash their hands. There are no whites in Liberia, and that’s the difference. Why don’t you go there and you won’t have to put up with people like Steve?

You talk about being “onderdruk”. Yes, there was law and order and you couldn’t just go into a park and defecate and throw your papers all over the show and leave your takeaway mess under a seat. Which park do you take your children to now, Virginia? Remember Joubert Park in Johannesburg? Christmas was a wonderful time – the lights, the theatre shows, the decorations. Now it is home to Somali squatters who live there, and hang their washing over the trees and use the gutter as a toilet. Was it better under apartheid, or worse, Virginia? Now that the park is for everyone, who wants to go there? What was wrong with control under apartheid? Sweden for example didn’t have apartheid because it didn’t have third world hordes. Now our cities are ringed with squatter camps. (I bet you live in a gated community, or if not, your windows are barred and there’s plenty of “security”. Security against whom, Virginia? Whites? No my dear, security is against the “freedom of movement” you so like to punt.

Steve doesn’t “staan alleen in die land”. Not at all. Millions agree with him, millions. They just don’t say anything. But they curse as they drive through Sunnyside in Pretoria, once a pleasant flatland with parks and nice shops. Now the rubbish is on the streets, not in bins. The prostitutes roam from corner to corner, waste is tipped out from flat windows and no one in their right mind would be seen dead living there. The Sudanese and the Somalis have it all to themselves. So was apartheid so bad, or is this better? Better for whom?

And Hillbrow? It’s not called Little Lagos for nothing. If you feel free, just go and rent a flat there and then you’ll realize why there was apartheid. You say footpaths were only for whites? I never saw that. People could walk where they wanted in public places. There was no “one side for you, one side for me”. Where did you see that, Virginia?

You can’t have it all in South Africa, Virginia. You ask how it feels to experience this and that. Does it not worry you that we experience things that are a hundred times worse than not being able to go into someone’s restaurant? What about the vicious crime? What about the wanton killing and torturing of farmers? What about the unemployment and the terrible poverty, much worse than under apartheid?

What about the corruption in government? Who is stealing us blind? The whites or the ANC? Who has destroyed productive farms in their hundreds in order to prove a failed policy? Who is putting food security at risk? The whites? Who has turned our once world class health system into a third world disgrace where babies die and patients have to buy their own anaesthetics and medicines because the hospitals have run out? The whites? Who doesn’t answer the phone, doesn’t reply to letters and generally doesn’t give a rat’s backside for the people who pay their fancy salaries? The ANC’s comrades occupying jobs for which they are not qualified, or the Whites? Who are “deployed” somewhere else when they’re found with their hands in the cookie jar? White employees or the others?

Your freedom and democracy people can’t even run a post office, Virginia. They can’t keep the country in electricity, and they can’t run the Johannesburg Zoo, let alone protect our wildlife. They let their animals starve on farms they were given on a plate by their pals in the government. They are unable to produce books for school children. They steal from their own children’s school feeding schemes. They steal from the social grants (read welfare payments) destined for poor old people in the homelands who stand all day to get their money.

They talk nonsense with regularity. They promise the earth but do nothing. They are charlatans of the first order. They refuse to admit they are wrong. They are incompetent and useless. It’s always someone else’s fault – it’s the stolen cable, its apartheid, it’s the weather, its colonialism, its racism. This is why they are legal thieves under the guise of BEE. They need BEE because they can’t even start a spaza shop in the township. They rob and assault the Somalis and the Pakistanis who do start them. They are a disgrace and you would do well, Virginia, to concentrate on this cancer eating away at a once beautiful and prosperous country. Don’t worry about apartheid, Virginia, or Steve either. There’s much worse on the way to focus your mind. Concentrate on crime, and our window bars and our alarms and our palisade fences with the spikes on top. It’s amazing how many commentators say that crime affects the blacks “as well”. But when there were whites-only areas, there was hardly any crime. This is why there were no bars on windows, no townhouse complexes (for security!), no boom gates to keep who out? Whites? No, blacks dear Virginia. When they were not there, there was virtually no crime.

So put up or shut up. Concentrate on bringing to book the criminals (both government and freelance), and leave Steve alone. He’s telling it like it is, and so should you. Ask those venal creatures in the ANC to move to black residential areas, to send their kids to black schools, to use state hospitals, to go to black doctors and to buy their clothes in Soweto. The sins of apartheid are pisswilly compared to the wholesale pillaging of our country by the charlatans calling themselves the government of South Africa.

– Sic Transit Gloria, Gauteng

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Steve Hofmeyr in Pierre de Vos’s kangaroo court

Just the other day a gigantic coal silo collapsed, creating Eskom, our state electricity utility’s latest crisis, plunging parts of the country into the dark. Photographs of cracks appearing in the edifice had already been published in January, yet nothing was done to repair it.

roodt_fbfotoThese more obvious signs of decay and neglect mask the deeper moral and intellectual corruption gnawing away at South Africa. Somewhere Toynbee speaks about the pain of people born in a more or less normal, productive society having to live through a “time of decadence”. It is certainly painful to witness our country and its institutions collapsing one by one, as the termites slowly devour all of its once-proud institutions.

The schools, the courts, the universities. Our legal system, known as Roman-Dutch law, with all of its age-old principles going back to Roman times. First they abolished Latin, then Afrikaans. I still had both Latin and Afrikaans at school, as well as at university.

That is why I am familiar with the finer nuances of the expression mala fides, or bad faith. In French it is translated as “mauvaise foi” and occurs in common everyday speech, with an even more pronounced meaning conveying dishonesty, trickery and falseness. In Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous existentialist treatise, Being and Nothingness, a whole chapter is devoted to it. Sartre also talks about the “double negativity” of bad faith:

A man does not lie about what he is ignorant of; he does not lie when he spreads an error of which he himself is the dupe; he does not lie when he is mistaken. The ideal description of the liar would be a cynical consciousness, affirming truth within himself, denying it in his words, and denying that negation as such.

Presumably at some level Pierre de Vos knows that he is in bad faith,  but he is so far gone in the kind of “cynical consciousness” that Sartre talks about that he can only “trade in lies”, half-truths, misinterpretations, while serving what he intuits as the Power, the power of political correctness and revolutionary destruction that has South Africa in its grip.

For a professor of law, even if it is constitutional law, which is a more political branch of the law, Pierre de Vos displays a cavalier disregard for evidence or proof. At the outset he simply posits Steve Hofmeyr’s “racist statements” while leaving the reader completely in the dark about what these could be:

Steve Hofmeyr and his supporters claim that a puppet called Chester Missing has infringed on his right to freedom of expression by challenging his racist statements and by challenging his sponsors for supporting his racism.

Now, the R-word has become a kind of nuclear weapon in the hands of the politically correct, with their inquisitors, their rabid thought police sniffing out the latest thoughtcrime in Orwellian parlance. But still, but still – if we have not yet degenerated into some form of Khmer-Rougism, where zeal and a blind, secular faith have replaced all thinking – De Vos could have given us some hint as to the heinous utterances in question?

However, after having stated the accusation without offering any form of description or evidence of the crime, he launches into a whole tirade, a kind of “stairway to heaven” – if you remember the Led Zeppelin song:

There’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure ‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

In a tree by the brook, there’s a songbird who sings, Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

However much you and I may wonder, dear reader, we shall never know what caused the imperious cry of “That’s racist!” to ring out from the throne of the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance all the way down in Cape Town, in the province that is known in Xhosa as iKoloni.

The R-word having all the occult power that it has, one would have thought that it would suffice to cast a spell on Steve Hofmeyr, as in one those computer games such as World of Warcraft, where you may paralyse you opponent by enveloping him in a purple hue, after which he dies and you win. But no, De Vos has even more “powerful medicine” up his sleeve, climbing the stairway to the heaven of political correctness.

Please also note the other introductory remark made by De Vos, speaking about Steve Hofmeyr and the remaining writing, singing, speaking Afrikaner rabble out there:

They do not seem to understand that your right to freedom of expression does not always give you a right to freedom from the consequences of your expression.

His Eminence, the Inquisitor, hath spoken and we had better all beware of using any nuance that might attract the black magic of the R-word. On the other hand, and here is a deep philosophical and legal question: Could a person be innately racist? So that everything that person says – even if he is reciting a recipe for salade niçoise – could be deemed “racist”? As in the computer games, you’ve taken a hit, lost some of your vitality, your “remaining lives” and might soon wither away and die if some powerful opponent targets you with some more “progressive discourse” or whatever hocus pocus is bubbling under the lid of Pierre de Vos’s cauldron.

The other day I actually managed to grasp the “deep structure”, as Chomsky might have said in his more linguistic days, of political correctness. You could also call it the “three semiological codes” – my goodness, this is turning into a real lecture – but then I am speaking to a so-called “professor of constutitional law”, perched upon “the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance”. So my readers might forgive me for lapsing into such an analytical mood.

Political correctness at a certain level is fascinating. Like someone on drugs, those so afflicted are completely enthralled by its hallucinatory power, having a deep physical need for the next fix. But if you step back from it, it is just some chemical that might give you hepatitis from a used needle, and you are not on the stairway to heaven but on a slippery path to Hades where Charon and his dreadful three-headed dog Cerberus await you.

Like any soap opera or cheap crime story, it has a simple logic that the reader decodes while watching or reading it. It happens over and over again, just with different names and settings,  a bit like Ground Hog Day. Any politically correct litany usually boils down to the following three elements:

1. I am so clever. It follows that you are a moron.
2. You are racist or a Nazi.
3. I laugh at you.

Pierre de Vos does not keep us in suspense. In his introductory paragraph he already plays the race card (without a shred of evidence, but does it matter if you are on such a hard drug?) and he more subtly informs us that “they do not seem to understand…” which is already short-hand for saying: “But I do! I am an absolute genius! Can you not see the pearls of wisdom dripping from my professorial, divinely politically correct, pen?”

Naturally – and this is where bad faith, mala fides, comes in – Pierre de Vos is arguing, not only for censorship, but for a viciously effective witch hunt and smear campaign against Steve Hofmeyr that will silence him forever and even banish him from society. But he, Pierre – quelle merveille! – really cares about “freedom of expression”:

The protection of freedom of expression is a prerequisite for the proper functioning of a democracy… A world in which books, movies or songs are banned; comedians are censored; prophets, artists, writers or poets jailed; academics gagged; critical voices silenced; or cultural conformity imposed through court orders or threats of violence is a world in which the human dignity of every person is not respected. This is so because our agency as human beings is diminished when we do not have at least the possibility of being exposed to life-changing forms of artistic, religious or intellectual expression.

Blah-blah-blah. Pardon me for another French expression, but then I definitely want to distance me from this ersatz Anglo-supremacist with the Afrikaans surname, De Vos: this is really just what is called la langue de bois. I have a whole book here somewhere on la langue de bois, but for the sake of brevity let me quote you that fount of knowledge, the English Wikipedia:

Wooden language is a literal translation of the French expression langue de bois meaning language that uses vague, ambiguous, abstract or pompous words in order to divert attention from the salient issues. The French phrase became widely used during the 1970s and 1980s, arriving in the language from Russian.

Don’t we understand Professor Pierre de Vos a little bit better now? After all Pierre rhymes with… insincere. And then suddenly, having just persuaded us that he is something of a man of letters who really cares about books, songs, movies, art, and so on, he quite bluntly states that:

“The problem with these lofty-sounding principles is that not all forms of expression have equal value. But it is difficult to distinguish between forms of expression that enhance democratic debate and enrich our lives, and forms of expression that have little or no value or harm people and sabotage democratic debate.”

So now we are getting closer to the totalitarian meat of it: “forms of expression that have little or no value or harm people and sabotage democratic debate”. One wonders what such “forms of expression” could be? During the time of Malema’s “Kill a Boer, kill a farmer” trial in the Equality Court most of the PC brigade was for Malema and against the suppression of the song. In the Johannesburg High Court Mr. Gilbert Marcus, brother of the former Reserve Bank governor, Gill Marcus, argued that singing such a song was exactly the same as singing the French national anthem, La Marseillaise. Or maybe Die Stem? Oh no, scratch that one. Die Stem is subject to… restrictions. In fact, singing Die Stem is, or so we have been assured, racist! Being an ode to the natural beauty of South Africa, you may wonder about that logical connection. But in PC-ville they have already made it. And no-one even cited Adorno or Marcuse in coming to that conclusion.

I somehow recall having read an essay by Marcuse a long time ago about the dreaded Blut und Boden, “blood and soil”, so anyone developing too great an affinity for the Drakensberg and having a braai under the stars near Louis Trichardt in the Bushveld could be on his way to becoming a fascist or a fully-fledged Nazi. (By the way, the town of Louis Trichardt has only recently been allowed to use its name, after a ten-year court case.)

But it seems that our South African left-wing fanatics are not that sophisticated, even though they consider themselves cultural Marxists, feminists and anti-racists. Apart from the three elements or codes (I’m clever, you’re a racist, I laugh at you), their only real form of logic is quintessentially primitive, based on guilt by association. Die Stem is “associated with apartheid”, therefore it should be taboo. As we shall see in a moment, associative slurring, smearing and innuendo also constitute the stock in trade of Pierre de Vos. Underneath the thin veneer of “constitutional speak or doublespeak”, smoulders an old-fashioned arsenal of witch-hunting techniques. Stigmatise. Point a shaking finger and pronounce in a hoarse voice: “You demon, you!” Or, more “scholarly”: “You racist! You Nazi!”

So De Vos abandons even the pretence of causal logic and ends up creating a few stark and melodramatic propaganda figments. Now, may you ask: What could be worse than being stigmatised as a “racist”? After all, in South Africa we have 77 murders a day and a few thousand instances of rape, which pales in significance next to the odious “racism” associated with singing Die Stem, or worse, even subtly questioning the official interpretation of South African history as being the Manichean tale of evil, exploitative whites and long-suffering, angelic blacks.

If racism is worse than murder or rape “on an industrial scale” as we have it here in South Africa, what could possibly surpass it in mind-numbing evil? Well, there are always child pornography and paedophilia!

As De Vos bids ever higher in his ascent unto the high heavens of PC bliss, or the stinking river Styx, depending on where you stand, he bluntly states:

Very few South Africans will vigorously defend and actively seek to provide a platform for the views of paedophiles who argue for the legalisation of sex with young children. This is so because as a society we have decided that adults who force children to have sex with them harm those children – we do not need further debate on the issue to decide whether this is true or not.

What has paedophilia got to do with singing Die Stem or discussing why black South Africans congregated in certain tribal areas which subsequently became independent or self-ruling homelands under the previous political dispensation? But of course, De Vos wants to create some form of surreal association between Steve Hofmeyr and paedophilia… How nasty can one get? you may ask.

However, for De Vos this is a rather unfortunate use of innuendo, as we associate the anti-apartheid movement rather more with paedophilia than anyone – like Steve Hofmeyr or historian Hermann Giliomee – insisting upon a more rational and historically accurate discussion around the previous South African system.

Although the case against him was withdrawn amid all kinds of pressures, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, founder of the British Anti-Apartheid movement, was once investigated for paedophilia. Two other organisations that were intimately involved in the international campaign against South Africa, punctuated by urban terrorism (car bombs, restaurant bombs), in the 1970s and 1980s, the British Labour Party, not to forget the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), have both been exposed for the involvement of key officials in child sex rings or child rape. In the case of the British Labour Party, which is also “the intellectual home of the South African Left”, it was revealed that Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt, then “young left-wingers” but who rose to powerful positions within the Labour Party, actually supported the “Paedophile Information Exchange”, a lobby group campaigning for the legalisation of child sex in Britain. The BBC’s Sir James Wilson Vincent “Jimmy” Savile, OBE, KCSG , 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011)… an English DJ, television presenter, media personality and charity fundraiser became the subject of a posthumous “sexual abuse scandal”, described thus:

In September and October 2012, almost a year after his death, claims were widely publicised that the radio and television presenter Jimmy Savile had committed sexual abuse, his alleged victims ranging from prepubescent girls and boys to adults. By 11 October 2012 allegations had been made to 13 British police forces, and this led to the setting-up of inquiries into practices at the BBC and within the National Health Service. [Wikipedia]

So it seems, instead of defaming Steve Hofmeyr, as he had intended, Pierre de Vos has actually shone a spotlight on some of the leading lights of the British Left in the 1970s and 1980s when South Africa was brought down for “having the wrong values”. The Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal also nicely revealed the “moral backbone” of the BBC which was so intimately involved in promoting the ANC and SACP as the only possible government for South Africa, with the results that we see around us.

But De Vos does not stop there in his attempts to illustrate just how much free speech, such as that of Steve Hofmeyr, needs to be curtailed. He ultimately (over-)reaches for the Holocaust and Holocaust denial, stating:

Defending free speech is not always value neutral.

The same principle applies to those who deny the Holocaust or argue that the Nazis did a great job by exterminating six million Jews. As a society we have decided that there is no value in debating whether the Holocaust occurred or whether the mass murder of the Jews was a good idea. Why debate something that is so obviously evil – it will just give credence to the disproved and harmful views of a few lunatics?

For someone who pretends to be informed as to the South African constitution and legal precedent, this is the stuff of fantasy. Regardless of the merits of debating whether six million really died, it is simply inaccurate to state that “as a society we have decided that there is no value in debating whether the Holocaust occurred…” There has never been any decision taken about holocaust denial in this country. Until now, holocaust denial has never been an issue in South Africa and, unlike in Western Europe, especially Germany, we have no laws on the statute books prohibiting a discussion of the number of dead in German concentration camps during World War II, including how they happened to die, whether by Zyklon B, typhus or whatever.

I am by no means taking a position on Holocaust denial, but it is theoretically possible for a Holocaust denial conference to be held in South Africa without transgressing any of our laws, including the 1996 constitution. Whereas there are moves afoot to ban Steve Hofmeyr from singing Die Stem or discuss the homelands, where Sol Kerzner’s casinos are still extant in their kitsch, extravagant splendour!

Is it not absurd that, thanks to the zeal and fanaticism of a small group of mainly white liberals and Marxists, we are increasingly finding ourselves in a situation where Afrikaans singers and authors are harassed simply for expressing a fairly innocuous opinion on South African history or singing Afrikaans folk songs that have been part of the popular repertoire for decades? The worrying aspect is that, as the South African system unravels further, the perceived threat to the system from describing empirical conditions in the country will subject one to reprisals, witch hunts, vociferous denunciations and moral hysteria from the disciples of Trevor Huddleston, Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt and the late Sir James Wilson Vincent “Jimmy” Savile.

Underlying the surreal objets trouvés of De Vos’s “legal” imagination is an even more sinister “subconscious association” in the form of the tacit assumption that, in fact, apartheid was tantamount to genocide and a holocaust. If that assumption ever hardened into historical “fact” it would require all whites and Afrikaners to take the vow of silence as some of the more extreme voices in academe (such as Samantha Vice) have already advocated. That would take us from harassment and censorship to the most absolute self-censorship and fear of persecution in terms of German-style “denial” laws.

Not for nothing does Conrad Koch, the puppet master who spews obscenities as readily as his politically correct platitudes, use the term “apartheid denialism” as an excuse or motivation for his harassment of Steve Hofmeyr, in order to sound the death knell of free speech in South Africa.

In a final reductio ad absurdum, De Vos writes:

Besides, no one has a right to make a profit out of his or her bigotry and racism. I have checked the Constitution and can confirm that no such right is contained in it.

This is the ultimate object of a PC vilification campaign, being stabbed in the street like Theo van Gogh
This is the ultimate object of a PC vilification campaign, being stabbed to death in the street like Theo van Gogh

So once you have been accused of “bigotry and racism” in the kangaroo court of a few biased cultural-Marxist ideologues, you will no longer be allowed to perform, to publish or to disseminate your opinions. They will simply defame and slander you until you are either reduced to silence or they have simply whipped up enough hatred against you for you to get stabbed in the street as happened to Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands.

Unless we want Roman-Dutch law to go the way of Thandi Modise’s pig farm, we should defend it against the assault of so-called professors of constitutional law.

The brilliance of propaganda and the mass media

It really becomes about having the the most politically correct jibe – people with “real” morals breaking down another, less popular view, with insults of stupidity and thinly disguised hatred.

It’s like many Germans detesting hearing the word “Hitler”.

Many of those with very strong opinions will “TLDR” a carefully worded response as mute reminder that they know next to nothing about what they are speaking of.

Herein lies the brilliance of propaganda and the mass media. Divide and conquer. Use triggers to whip the people up against themselves. Let them kill each other – then we step in and “save” them from themselves. (we = the powers that be/were)

We are lambs to the slaughter. We fear each other and thus prance and pontificate while the cattle cars lie in wait.

Steve has a problem with the murder of white farmers. Somehow we have to start discussing this. Many might say that his tweet was not a way to get that attention. But it did. He is also saying that there is a lot of history most of us will just not look at.

The current government is rotten to the core. Why is this acceptable?

But one tweet that just maybe might make us “thinking Afrikaners” look bad… and we summon enough energy to rid the world of fraudulent bankers.

A friend of mine has a saying for most of us Afrikaners: “Bly dof, my volk”.

He’s right. We are so trained to accept any authority. The way our schools taught us.

I personally go with George Carlin. “I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.” These days, it includes the mainstream media.

– Mad Pierrot

Reply to Rebecca Davis, the Anglo-supremacist genius

Ms. Davis, or perhaps I should address you as “Your Majesty”, given that you have already assured us of your elect status as a member of the planetary cognitive elite by modestly stating on Twitter:

roodt_fbfotoIn your column, you neglected to mention a few things, such as the fact that the Daily Show falsely represented themselves to me as a serious political talk show and that they actually cut the interview and the questions up in such a manner that where I replied “Yes” to a question they would insert a “No” from another part and vice versa.

This is clearly the work of people of extremely high intelligence, real prodigies such as Ms. Davis or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Judit Polgár, the Hungarian girl who became a chess grandmaster at the tender age of 15 and is reputed to have an IQ of 170.

So if I had to interview Ms. Davis and ask her: Do you agree that all 3 million remaining Afrikaners should be herded into concentration camps and exterminated en masse and she replied “No”, I would just pause, ask her to keep her head still and proceed to the next question:

“Have you been to the beach at least once in your lifetime?” To which she would probably reply, “Yes”.

So then we just edit the video, copy or cut the “Yes” from the innocuous question and insert it as the answer after question number one.

Et voilà, another racist, fanatical genocidaire has been created! Sound the applause. Pipe in the laughter and ridicule.

Given that the New York-based Daily Show has such contempt for the Third World dump that is South Africa, pullulating with low-life and especially low-IQ, dumb, retarded Afrikaners who only got introduced to the written word by Nelson Mandela in 1994, it’s more or less QED, quod erat demonstrandum.

It probably never crossed their minds that there were courts in South Africa. Roman-Dutch law, what is that? LOL to the power of 100! Is that a relic of apartheid? Tell me another one!

I don’t suppose the mighty Daily Show and Viacom would obey a court order from South Africa, but let’s test it and see how far we get.

One thing I am really looking forward to is to request some documentary proof of your “really high IQ” which must be way to the far right edge of the distribution. Ever since our country was blessed with immigration from parts of the British isles, as well as Lithuania, many mathematical conundra have appeared that we simpletons who are usually greeted by our superiors with the alliterating phrase “dumb Dutchmen”, are unable to comprehend.

For example, we are supposed to be “Nazis” and therefore presumably killed six million Jews. Yet only 40 000 Jews immigrated here in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So somewhere along the line a differential equation must exist to prove that 40 000 in 1910 became 6 000 000 in 1948 who were then all gassed at Vlakplaas or some other establishment.

Afrikaners are also supposed to have massacred many more millions of blacks but whose numbers miraculously increased during the “apartheid genocide”, at least enough to occupy about 80% of the voters roll during every recent election.

These are all truisms of Anglo-supremacist genius that we “less gifted” mortals barely comprehend as they depend upon higher thought processes and quick video editing. Or throw in a few cartoons with swastikas or bearded individuals with low, simian foreheads, Zapiro-style.

Oh yes, I also have a book here on my shelf entitled “Blank” which, it seems, was supposed to describe the Afrikaner contribution to South Africa, especially in architecture. Blank minds produce nothing, is more or less the form of the argument, which is another startlingly original syllogism from our cognitive elite manning the PC propaganda pump.

In “Blank” I learned that both the Voortrekker Monument and the campus of the University of Johannesburg (ex-Rand Afrikaans University), together with various former Volkskas buildings by Gawie Fagan, were expressions of both fascism and the mental deficiency of Afrikaners. That must also be why the ANC government in Gauteng is busy demolishing various historical monuments in Johannesburg, designed by the bilingual Scottish Afrikaner, Gordon Leith, as South Africa must now be rid of these lower forms of spatial expression. Entartete Kunst, as it were.

What is really astonishing is that an ethnocultural class so utterly convinced of its own, seemingly biological or divinely-inspired superiority, should accuse others of “racism”. So it is with the resident genius puppeteer Conrad Koch, M.A. (he reminds us in every interview of his postgraduate qualification in anthropology) too. In almost every statement about Steve Hofmeyr he flies into a rage calling Steve “stupid”, “dumb”, etc., in a clear demonstration of his exalted IQ which must be completely off the scale, radiating from Sea Point outwards to illuminate a benighted world.

I think there should be a law requiring every member of the Anglo-supremacist elite in South Africa to go for IQ tests at Mensa and publish it on their CV’s and on their business cards, a bit like the elite bureacrats and engineering graduates of France obtain a “rank” during their aggrégation exam (especially the one in mathematics) which they keep for the rest of their lives.

So please, Ms. Davis, do not keep us in suspense anymore, publish your IQ here so that South Africa may be humbled and feel grateful to have you here whereas you could just as well have made a far greater contribution to humanity in New York, such as humiliating a few Republicans as a member of the Daily Show.

Just don’t use calculus or Sanskrit in your reply; mine is a bit rusty, being of lower genetic stock.

The white musician’s burden

It has become part and parcel in South Africa today for various opinion makers, entertainers and activists to take to political hectoring and vilifying of their fellow entertainers.

Since last week, various commentators and activists have come out strongly against Afrikaans singer and activist Steve Hofmeyr, who has been a thorn in their side for a while now for a variety of reasons.

Firstly he took a clear stance in favour of his people, stating how they are being killed off in droves while the major news sources, such as Naspers and its sister network Netwerk24 prefer to turn a blind eye.

After that he threatened to include the incendiary “K-“ word in one of his songs, followed by him singing “Die Stem”, the original South African anthem, which by the way nowhere refers to white supremacy or black inferiority at all, but pays homage to the natural splendour of South Africa.

Last but not least, he tweeted that black people themselves were behind the shaping of apartheid, and that was the last straw.

Hofmeyr has transgressed every petty taboo that the communist-based ANC has laid down, and now it’s payback time. From the house of Naspers – South Africa’s Pravda – came a vitriolic attack from a certain liberal retard named Virginia Keppler whose emotional outburst was only overshadowed by her complete ignorance of South Africa’s past, and one wonders if she actually had lived over there back then. To add insult to injury, the turncoat Afrikaner editor Adriaan Basson did not even correct her on these obvious fallacies as is wont of a respectable editor. Instead he chose to disable the comment section, perhaps realising all too well that Keppler’s pathetic outburst would be an object of ridicule, elevating Beeld’s status as a purveyor of mendacity even further.

It is doubtful whether the medieval Inquisition would have stooped to this level of idiocy. At least the Inquisition – in spite of their primitive techniques – consisted of trained scholars who abided by the principle of Res Ipsa Loquitur, or let the facts speak for themselves. (Not many people nowadays realise that the burning of witches and hanging of heretics were in the vast majority of cases legal sentences passed in secular courts and not sovereign acts committed by the Inquisitors.)

In the “progressive” Rainbow Nation called South Africa the opposite tendency holds true. People are criminalised for speaking the truth. In the case of Hofmeyr’s tweet regarding blacks being behind apartheid, the various Bantu tribes strove for a patch of land for themselves, especially after a major tribal onslaught – the Difaqane – orchestrated by King Shaka and Mzilikazi killed up to three million blacks. This occurrence is historically documented, yet a heresy at the same time. The aftershock of this assault could be taken as a first step in the direction of Verwoerd’s grand apartheid plan. Need we also not forget that after the Union of South Africa in 1910, the Sotho, Swazi and Tswana tribes intentionally distanced themselves from the Union and demanded their own independent states.

On 23 January 1962, after Verwoerd had declared the homeland Transkei independent, he stated (translated from Afrikaans): “There are Bantu leaders with whom we have spoken who clearly stated that they are just as much in favour of keeping their own identity as we are. Maintaining their national ideals, their culture, their heritage are dear to them and they realise that this could only be achieved if they are granted independent suffrage and rights separately from the other groups.”

In other words, Hofmeyr wasn’t far off the mark, if at all.

During the dark years of white rule, Africans freely roamed through the streets of Johannesburg. Virginia Keppler’s unfaithful reporting that blacks weren’t allowed on the sidewalks has backfired on her. Shall we not forget the fierce propaganda war that the Western presses waged against South Africa, including the staged filming of “dead black people” scattered on the lawns of Joubert Park in downtown Johannesburg with “whites in the background nonchalantly walking by”? If one were to pass Joubert Park or any stretch of greenery in Johannesburg today, those “bodies” could still be seen basking in the African sun, only to get up and leave when something else has crossed their minds.

Not to mention how the Western presstitutes published damning pictures of black mine workers “chained to the rock face”, while in reality a safety harness on a treacherous slope is not such a bad idea.

Whereas South Africa’s feigned Mandela miracle was exported to the rest of the world, the culture of deceitful journalism was imported. It has become firmly ensconced in South African life, but instead of being the opium of the masses as the ruling elite had hoped for, it has become its laughing stock. It is unimaginable that someone would pay R99 (approximately US$9) per month to absorb slanted views written by their army of opinion makers whose intellectual courtesy emanates from their hatred of the language they were raised in. In fact, these opinion makers have only succeeded at one thing, and that is to fill the comments section with laughter and mockery from the disillusioned masses.

That is why Hofmeyr is their latest scapegoat. He is pointing the needle at their over-inflated balloon. Instead of trying to approach Hofmeyr with an honest debate regarding his views, mendacious columnists and comedians such as ventriloquist Conrad Koch are roped in to do the job, relying on their status as satirists to crucify him without further ado. After all, who needs cold intellectual talk if you could have a carnival of cant instead?

Remaining on the fringes is thus Hofmeyr’s fate, along with many followers who cannot stand the brokenness any longer. Whoever is tired of being swayed will themselves return to the path of principles and character, their integrity growing stronger.

To quote Rudyard Kipling:

Take up the White Man’s burden, No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper, The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living, And mark them with your dead.

Court grants Steve Hofmeyr protection against Missing campaign

An interim protection order was granted on Wednesday to popular Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr against Conrad Koch, after Koch launched a massive libelous campaign against Hofmeyr.

Koch, in his anxious efforts to damage Hofmeyr’s reputation, also inter alia stated in a tweet that Afrikaner women and children had deserved their slaughter in concentration camps.

Koch thus reiterated the stance of an academic from the University of Cape Town, Elizabeth van Heyningen claiming the Boer women and children died not because of a deliberate lack of food and shelter, but because of their “backwardness”, “low intelligence” and “poor hygiene”.

Koch’s utterances come in the wake of worries that murders on white Afrikaner farmers show clear signs of a deliberate ethnic cleansing campaign.

Koch wrote a column in The Times last week, backing it up with hundreds of tweets calling on Hofmeyr’s sponsors to drop the “racist” after Hofmeyr reminded Koch that some black people actually also supported apartheid.

The Times and its editor Reuben Goldberg, have stood by Koch, saying that Hofmeyr is “scared of a puppet”.  Koch is a ventriloquist manqué that sometimes uses a puppet “Chester Missing” for his scurrilous attacks.

The concerted campaign to defame Hofmeyr and Afrikaners in general, is also ironically supported by the apartheid media monopoly, Naspers, pandering to ANC sycophants and race baiters.

Hofmeyr is the most popular singer in South Africa, adored by both white and black.

Libtards accede to literacy via Steve Hofmeyr

Operation “Burn the CD” against Steve Hofmeyr is in full swing, according to informed sources. Skoppensboer has some friends in high places. Or maybe low ones. Afrikaners are not supposed to have any connections beyond the local barman or primary-school teacher who has not yet been affirmative-actioned out of the way or worse, killed by one of our roving human-rights mentors, formerly known as “murderers”.

In South Africa, murder is more or less the national sport, but you’re not allowed to say the M-word. Or the A-word, B-word, C-word, and most other letters in the alphabet. That’s racist, you see. After all, this is a Latin alphabet, and the Romans were the first racists. So our South African libtards are pushing the idea that the “three R’s” are not for nothing R-words, to be shunned at all costs. As everyone knows, burning down a school is a profoundly emancipatory act, which Seffrikin libtards have profusely lauded.

Anyone knowing the 9-times table is a potential Nazi, as it shows a suspicious reverence for deceased white male (and Arab) mathematicians, not to mention Hitlerian engineers who gave us the Messerschmitt and the V-2.

Skoppensboer’s friends say that within the hallowed hierarchy of the National Intelligence Service, not to mention Crime Intelligence, there exist pangs of worry over the Afrikaans singer, Steve Hofmeyr. Just to clarify: there being no crime to solve in the South African libtard utopia, Crime Intelligence and most other intelligence agencies are involved in matters of state security.

As South Africa no longer has any defined borders and anyone from Africa is welcome to settle anywhere – except “white settlers” who are encouraged to leave – it’s sort of difficult to say where the state begins and ends. But state security, in addition to first-class air travel and staying in five-star hotels at taxpayer expense, is a top priority.

So what is known as “the media” have been infiltrated – one could also say, taken over – by men and women “of intelligence”. There is one thing better than censorship of the media and that is self-censorship of the media. The intelligence hacks out there get paid some perks out of the secret accounts – and still earn some kind of salary on top. “Intelligent” people moonlighting as journalists; what a brilliant idea!

After all, such libtard heroes as Joe Slovo and Ronnie Kasrils were intimately involved with the East German Stasi where such ideas were a staple, so to speak.

But why has Special Branch become so suspicious of Steve, to the extent that every libtard rag or website has broken out into a rash of anti-Hofmeyr opprobrium, not to mention “satire”?

As satire is a uniquely Roman, as opposed to Greek, genre, it is best treated with caution, being inherently racist. But within the ranks of the South African intelligence community and its media appendage, all caution has been thrown to the winds in a spirit of: let’s fight racism with racism!

Oops, there I’ve employed the R-word again. As long as I do not sing Die Stem, which is a patriotic poem composed in Afrikaans circa 1918 by one C.J. Langenhoven and set to music by his fellow perpetrator, M.L. de Villiers in 1921, and later adopted – God forbid! – as South Africa’s national anthem.

Patriotism, as everyone knows, is the underbelly of fascism. Any ardent feelings about one’s own country, including the disappointment at seeing its rivers being polluted with human waste by Mercedes-driving, Gucci-wearing mayors, or litter next to all the roads, are cause for extreme suspicion.

Hence all the libtard obsession with Steve, who is known to have sung Die Stem in front of an audience in the “deep platteland”. There is nothing that inspires greater fear in libtard hearts and minds than the “deep platteland” where people engage in food production, church-going, heterosexual marriage and other unspeakably fascist activities. South Africa is working hard towards a Zimbabwean-style famine and the constant resistance of farmers – the ones who have not yet been tortured to death – to the five-year famine plan is seen as something of a “prime evil” to be vigorously combatted.

Operation “Burn the CD” has now been launched against Steve Hofmeyr and teams of journalists and their intelligence handlers are flying sorties against the singer in the press, TV, radio and social media. Experts in neurolinguistic programming from MI6 and the CIA are on standby to rid South Africa of the scourge of the singing Steve phenomenon.

But, oh drat! one of the unintended consequences of the operation has been to remind participants of South Africa’s long-forgotten literacy, otherwise known as “a legacy of apartheid”. Writing in the Mail & Guardian, a local libtard rag, one of the agents referred to Steve Hofmeyr’s “library”, consisting of misspelt British and American titles.

Libraries were the first casualties of South Africa’s revolution, as books contained all those undesirable, objectionable and dignity-destroying alphabetic “constructs”, impeding progress towards an egalitarian state of illiterate, ignorant bliss among the masses. So most of the books were sent away to be pulped, especially Afrikaans ones that were deemed even less politically correct.

But the mere mention of the L-word (“library”) might have rekindled memories of the R-word (“reading”) in the hapless, subjugated animals out there, enjoying their 1994, which turned out to be a lot worse than 1984.

Another article about the subversive Steve, hinted at his being “without a brain”. This was meant as a kind of threat, that government-sponsored libtard lobotomists could give him the One-flew-over-the-cuckoo’s-nest treatment.

So the carefully planned “information campaign” is off to a bad start, with most agents falling back onto heated invective, calling the enemy the R-word (“racist”), shouting phrases like “jou me se P-word” and similar Capetonian refinements.

 

Rooinek angst, a reply to Shaun de Waal

In response to Shaun de Waal’s review of Afrikaans popular movie Platteland in the Mail & Guardian, Paint your oxwagon a few years ago, I offered a response which seems all the more relevant, given the current and growing animosity of English liberal whites against Afrikaans and Afrikaners in South Africa.

Duane Hanson sculpture
Duane Hanson sculpture

Every time I notice the local sout bevolking crawling out of their cramped Italian pseudo-villas in their ill-fitting T-shirts and jeans I get vaguely curious, thinking: Who are these people anyway? Missus, thrice divorced, still believes that she’s really sexy in tight jeans at 55 and balding Mister sports a manly tattoo on his forearm, a kind of psychological prop for the physique that is falling apart due to too much beer, TV and cigarettes. Living Duane Hanson sculptures pushing the shopping trolleys of their “global culture” along the existential void of their lives.

Then along comes Shaun de Waal and demonstrates to us that “something has survived” from the Jurassic Park of Empire and that deep inside the suburban would-be American or Australian’s mind lurks some sort of identity, a negative identity. Like, we still hate dem dumb Dutchmen. Congratulations! You actually made it to 2011, without being killed by some roving liberated black man with a stolen SADF assault rifle.

Immediate question, however: Why does Shaun de Waal not change his surname? After all, it hardly carries any chic with the rest of the Anglo crowd desperately trying to cling onto a British accent. Uncomfortable genealogical questions might surface around après-ski or après-British-soccer-on-TV drinks, one imagines. Why not Shaun Smith or even Shaun Mountbatten? Apparently name changes are dirt cheap to do through Home Affairs and if you pay a bribe it could be delivered shockingly pronto.

The aesthetics of the Spur. English multicultural food.
The aesthetics of the Spur. English multicultural food.

Unfortunately, brain transplants or improving your genes – that’s something different to jeans, look it up if you missed school biology in the old SA – do not come that easily or cheaply. Coping with your congenital physical and mental inferiority and going through convulsive episodes of megalomania brought on by examples of Afrikaner popular culture no doubt make for a sorry existence. And then, rooinek ethnic angst is sooo boring and predictable. I sometimes wonder how these low-life jingoes survive at all in South Africa. After all, how can one eat vegetables knowing that they emanate from some odious Boereplaas? Or perhaps at the Spur, which Shaunie will appreciate as a temple of his universal culture, enjoying the semiological intricacies of the Indian or “native-American” motifs on the wall or on the menu, he will ask for imported Argentinian or Brazilian steak, lest he inadvertently contributes to the Afrikaner economy.

On the other hand, the culinary tastes of the species do not extend much beyond junk food or TV dinners from Woolworths, so the Spur would count as something of a gourmet experience. Quoting JM Coetzee is not exactly kosher either… Didn’t he include some Afrikaans dialogue in In the heart of the country? But at least he is an Aussie now and may be certified biltong or melktert-free. Not that I have anything against Australia, that cultured nation. I just hope Down Under will finally vacuum all these Shauns from our country. Paul Kruger should never have allowed them in here. Afrikaner tolerance has always been our great weakness.