{"id":136,"date":"2012-02-10T04:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T04:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.143.185.113\/?p=136"},"modified":"2015-05-08T05:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T03:18:58","slug":"south-africa-a-bigger-version-of-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"South Africa, a bigger version of Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The multicultural dream that the US and Britain foresaw in South Africa is simply not going to happen. In fact, it is not even being realised in their own countries, backed up by huge globalised economies.<\/p>\n

If things continue like now, South Africa will become a bigger version of Zimbabwe. Most whites will leave, the infrastructure will collapse and a few expats will keep the mines going. Probably incoming Chinese and Indians will acquire some remaining assets on the cheap and still squeeze the last few rands out of what used to be the greatest republic ever on the African continent.<\/p>\n

However, every dark cloud has a silver lining, as they say. The way I see it, we are in this mess as a result of outside intervention, Soviet for sure, but to a far greater extent from Britain and the US. If it were not for Father Trevor Huddleston, Anthony Sampson, the American Black Caucus, Ted Kennedy and a few others, this country by now would have been a world power. We had the technology, the know-how and the drive to create something extraordinary in Southern Africa, but we had leaders that went from mediocre to bad to treasonous. De Klerk had no right to turn the army over to the ANC and abolish Afrikaner sovereignty for which our women and children had died in the camps and for which the women of the Great Trek had been prepared to “walk barefoot over the Drakensberg”.<\/p>\n

Therefore the economic crisis in the Anglo-Saxon countries is to our benefit. It lessens the chances of further and even more catastrophic intervention in SA. Many Afrikaners fear Britain and America more than they fear the ANC, because ultimately the Anglo-Saxon powers might intervene to prop up an ANC government if ever conditions had to become so intolerable that an Afrikaner revolt or rebellion would be a matter of survival.<\/p>\n

The other positive aspect is the revolution in technology and communications. We may not have a volkstaat or own republic yet, but we have the internet. While American ideas such as affirmative action and the moral superiority of blacks led to our downfall a short while ago, Facebook, Google and YouTube are rearming us. Even if we lose our last schools and churches, as well as the remaining suburbs or farming areas that are recognisably Afrikaans, we will still be able to associate on Facebook and Twitter, on Skype and so on.<\/p>\n

The Afrikaner identity has been a subject of much debate. Often academics and journalists have been hostile to us, claiming that we simply “do not exist” or otherwise have been legislated out of the way by the ANC government. I am vaguely contemplating a short book on Afrikaner history in English for our potential friends in America and elsewhere that are curious about us. The title I am toying with is: “The orphans of the West”. We were more or less abandoned by the West even though we fought on the Allied side in two world wars and in Korea.<\/p>\n

Like every orphan, we will have to reconcile ourselves with the reality of that abandonment and forge a new future for ourselves on some part of South African soil.<\/p>\n

Some of the idiots who devised the current system have said: “South Africa’s identity is our constitution.” As if a flawed document like that could ever represent an identity. Frenchman Jean Raspail, author of the dystopian novel on immigration, The Camp of the Saints<\/a>, coined a very useful simile. He spoke of the newcomers inhabiting a Western shell like the hermit crab. The ANC and its hangers-on, including the white Left in this country, are but hermit crabs enjoying their new home, made in our government buildings – but which they did not create.<\/p>\n

There is a very interesting – and moving – short story by Hennie Aucamp called “Die uitsettingsbevel” – The eviction order. In it he also refers to language, of being at home in one’s own language. We have been served our eviction order, that we are no longer welcome here, but ultimately we carry that home with us in the form of our language, culture and tradition.<\/p>\n

Many people claim that the Afrikaans tradition is almost dead, like a plant starved of water and nutrients. However, our identity is not defined by one document such as the SA constitution, but by many. It is the narrative of especially the twentieth century, culminating in the 1960s where Afrikaners for a brief few years had a sense of a “republic found again”. In French it sounds even better, slightly Proustian, as “la r\u00e9publique retrouv\u00e9e”. It was an almost utopian time before the calumny, the hypocritical boycotts, the posturing and barely disguised local ethnic hatred of Afrikaners started. Communism, the classless society or liberalism never mobilised any black South Africans, but the phrase “kill a Boer” sung by Mandela, Malema and others sure did.<\/p>\n

Possibly there no longer exists an Afrikaner nation, given the intense social engineering of the last decade or two. I am not so pessimistic, however. And then an Afrikaner archive is still extant. That archive represents the sum total of 350 years of Herculean effort and pioneering struggle, of tragic deaths at the hand of black tribes or British soldiers, as well as our enormous literary, legal, theological, philosophical and musical output of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

It is inevitable that that archive, unless the ANC manages to destroy it beforehand, which is a distinct possibility, will be digitized and will ultimately end up on the internet: searchable, overwhelming and alive. When that happens, the Afrikaner nation will be reborn and the phoenix will rise from the ashes as it did after the murder of Retief and his men in early 1838, or after 1902 when Kitchener and Roberts had burnt the Transvaal and the Free State to the ground (including the churches). Even the anglicised children of the diaspora Afrikaners will be affected by it. At first they will read about their forebears in English, but perhaps the generation after them will be curious enough to start relearning Afrikaans, like the Jews relearned Hebrew, which will only be a mouse click away.<\/p>\n

Defeat is a terrible thing and, like the American Southerners, we have been defeated twice, firstly militarily by Britain and secondly by that alliance of post-war leftism and black nationalism that cast us as villains and racists, the morally and physically expendable members of humanity about whom no one sheds any tears. Orphans.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the defeated have a way of reasserting themselves. Germany and Japan lost the Second World War, but prospered economically. Today Germany controls the pursestrings of Europe.<\/p>\n

And make no mistake: South Africa is still us. The hermit crab never really belongs in his shell, and knows it.<\/p>\n

One day the kingdom will be ours again, or at least part of it. The ANC and the rest of our ruling circus are just as strong as their backers. Yesterday it was the Soviet Union, Sweden, British Labour and the Anglican Church. Today it might be China, India and the Arab world. Tomorrow it might be Obama or Hillary Clinton’s America, with political correctness gone haywire.<\/p>\n

My wife always maintains that we Afrikaners can go back to the land tomorrow. My grandmother lived alone on a farm in the Rustenburg district, completely self-sufficient. She never had black servants or workers and she only bought sugar and powdered milk from the shop. The rest she grew or reared with her bare hands, without electricity.<\/p>\n

So we have this vast country all around us that will sustain us, no matter what. Social and economic collapse in South Africa poses no threat to us. It would only be a matter of concern for the UN, for the Anglo-American empire, for the EU, possibly China and India. To us such a collapse would represent one vast opportunity, like the country we found here when we had dragged our oxwagons over the Drakensberg: a wide and temperate realm, empty of people except for a few emaciated tribes here and there, no tropical diseases and teeming with wildlife.<\/p>\n

However, the hermit crab people ensconced in our buildings, our barracks, our police stations and consuming our taxes do not have the inner strength to maintain their supposed hegemony. They depend on outside support and even the threat of exterior force to cow us into submission, to keep us subjugated by affirmative action, racial quotas and other measures. Their incessant propaganda broadcast night after night on the public television has an Orwellian air, that of mind control exercised by a paranoid ruling clique.<\/p>\n

As someone said: “Nowhere else in the world has a majority ever sought refuge in an arsenal of legislation to protect itself from the competitive threat of a minority.” We are so few, and yet they are so afraid of us.<\/p>\n


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