{"id":10944,"date":"2013-10-08T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10944"},"modified":"2013-10-08T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T15:27:16","slug":"black-mob-threatens-school-over-its-afrikaans-language-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10944","title":{"rendered":"Black mob threatens school over its Afrikaans language medium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Heidelberg_ANC\"<\/a>A mob chanting that they will burn the headmaster of an old and prestigious high school east of Johannesburg yesterday marched on the school, led by local politicians from the South African Communist Party and the ANC.<\/p>\n

One of the ANC-Communist apparatchiks who participated in yesterday’s march in Heidelberg, Recato Eberwein,\u00a0had previously written on a blog:<\/p>\n

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I personally hope genocide happens. Then we get rid of amabhunu’s that life (sic) in cuckoo land. Kill a Boer, Kill a Farmer. Until Jesus comes we the ANC will rule<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The ANC-Communist Party provincial government in Gauteng is currently on an offensive to stamp out Afrikaans in schools under its radical MEC, Ms. Barbara Creecy, a self-confessed Marxist revolutionary.<\/p>\n

After an incident during which a black pupil at Volkskool Heidelberg had tried to kill a white classmate, the school suspended the pupil concerned, pending a disciplinary hearing. Due to the race of the suspended pupil, it was immediately denounced as racism by local ANC-Communist Party officials.<\/p>\n

After a previous protest had been prohibited by court order, a march was held yesterday to protest against the suspension of the murderous pupil, as well as 10 others who had been investigated for drug possession and abuse. This too, was denounced as “racism”.<\/p>\n

Mr. Johan Bester, the school governing body\u2019s representative for safety and security, said the suspended pupils were suspected of taking drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a drug monitoring system and we regularly test pupils for drugs,\u201d said Bester.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they test positive they are suspended and we put them on a programme to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anglo-black genocide pact<\/h3>\n

A retired historian in Nigel, a nearby town, told praag.org: “What we are seeing are old rancours coming to the fore. During the Anglo-Boer War the British military in these parts had encouraged armed Bantu men to kill and rape the Boer women. Boer civilians were also put into concentration camps where they were starved to death or left without water.<\/p>\n

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Children’s graves at the British concentration camp site in Heidelberg Photo: Boerevryheid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“This particular high school was founded just after the war, in a desperate attempt to save the Afrikaans language from being extirpated by the British administration. The fact that the school is today highly successful, displined and one of the top-performing schools in the province, is just too much to bear for Mrs. Creecy and pro-British genocidaires who are still nursing the Afrikaner hatred from hundred years ago.”<\/p>\n

The mob was demanding that the century-old patriotic name of the school be changed to that of a local communist, Robert Nkosi. Another member of the South African Communist Party,\u00a0Archie Mokonane of the South African Communist Party (SACP) told the crowd that the school was racist because it taught in Afrikaans.<\/p>\n

“English is the language of proletarian internationalism, therefore all other languages are racist. Those people in Europe who teach in Dutch or German or French are racists too!”<\/p>\n

Sipho Nhlengethwa, a\u00a0local ANC councillor, said they would campaign for the school to be named after Obed Nkosi, a terrorist from Ratanda, the black township in the area. “This is our public school now, we have conquered the Boers,”\u00a0said Nhlengethwa.<\/p>\n

Regional leaders from the ANC, SA Communist Party, Cosatu and the Young Communist League handed over a memorandum of demands.<\/p>\n

They want the school’s civilian governing body to be dissolved and replaced with a revolutionary communist council of “education workers”.<\/p>\n

‘We will necklace them, we will burn them’<\/h3>\n

Young Red Guards chanting “we will necklace them, we will burn them”, referring to the Afrikaner pupils at Heidelberg Volkskool, disrupted and brought to a halt all education in the black township of Ratanda. School children were forced to participate in the protest, with both primary and high schools being deserted for the rest of the day. Bystanders put the number of marchers at 8 000. Teachers had told children that there would be no classes on Monday as “everybody had to march against the Afrikaner cockroaches”.<\/p>\n

Volkskool was also accused of being racist because there were white players in the rugby team, with some members of the mob claiming that governmental race quotas for rugby only allowed one or two white players per team. “We want no whites in the team, it hurts our eyes to see whites,” said one.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the school blamed the inflamed racial tensions in the town on the provincial government’s failure to build an extra English-language high school, as promised in 1998. Cornelius Human,\u00a0a member of the school’s governing body\u00a0responsible for its legal affairs, said:<\/p>\n

“What we found ourselves in\u00a0was just a situation with wild allegations, with no substance \u2013 and we’re expected to act on them. It’s exactly the same situation that we have now.”<\/p>\n

In hundred years, not much has changed in Heidelberg. The British concentration camp has gone, leaving a children’s graveyard like so many others in South Africa, but the hatred of Afrikaner children has stayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A mob chanting that they will burn the headmaster of an old and prestigious high school east of Johannesburg yesterday marched on the school, led by local politicians from the South African Communist Party and the ANC. One of the ANC-Communist apparatchiks who participated in yesterday’s march in Heidelberg, Recato Eberwein,\u00a0had previously written on a … Continue reading “Black mob threatens school over its Afrikaans language medium”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12259,64,6596,815,447,65,157,6837,6836],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-afrikaans","tag-anc","tag-communist-party","tag-concentration-camps","tag-genocide","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-ratanda","tag-volkskool-heidelberg"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Heidelberg_ANC.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10949,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions\/10949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}