{"id":11641,"date":"2013-11-11T08:39:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2013-11-11T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:39:43","slug":"vote-or-the-boers-will-be-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11641","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Vote or the Boers will be back!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11642\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cyrilroelf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11642\" alt=\"Cyril sharing with his 'Boer' friend Roelf Meyer\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cyrilroelf.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyril sharing with his &#8216;Boer&#8217; friend Roelf Meyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has urged Limpopo residents to vote or else the \u201cBoers\u201d will come back to power, according to a report. Ramaphosa evidently believes the black fear of whites will persuade blacks to vote, even though whites represent no danger at all at the ballot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t vote the Boers will come back to control us,\u201d Ramaphosa reportedly said in Seshego.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Star newspaper reported on Monday that he was speaking to disgruntled resident, Johanna Phala, 49, who had vowed not to vote in next year\u2019s elections because the ANC had disappointed her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The unemployed single mother of three blamed the high unemployment rate on the ANC and said she had lost hope in the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramaphosa asked her to reconsider her anger towards the ANC-led government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was in Seshego, hometown of Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema, to drum up party support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf all South Africans don\u2019t vote, we will regress. The Boers will come back to control us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramaphosa\u2019s remarks echoed a study released in April by consumer insights company Pondering Panda which found that 46% of youth respondents of all races believed the DA would bring back apartheid if it won next year\u2019s elections. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has urged Limpopo residents to vote or else the \u201cBoers\u201d will come back to power, according to a report. Ramaphosa evidently believes the black fear of whites will persuade blacks to vote, even though whites represent no danger at all at the ballot. \u201cIf you don\u2019t vote the Boers will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Vote or the Boers will be back!&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7356,1528,397,4329,7357],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc-deputy-president","tag-boers","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-elections-2014","tag-vote"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cyrilroelf.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11644,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/11644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}