Posted on 09/23/2005 11:53:24 PM PDT by Republic_of_Secession.
Farmers threaten armed struggle.
07/09/2005 21:39 - (SA)
Pretoria - White farmers have threatened an armed struggle similar to that waged by the African National Congress unless their property and cultural concerns were addressed.
A handful of farmers presented a memorandum on Wednesday to the Transvaal Agricultural Union's SA president, Paul van der Walt, urging him to convey their concerns to the government in the strongest possible language.
These included "artificial pressure" on their language, culture, land and arms.
"The way in which white farmers are being made a legitimate target as an excuse for slow land reform, should stop immediately," said the documents.
This should be seen against the background of farm murders.
Authorities asked to help
"If not, we will consider the government to be part of the threat and treat it as such," stated the memorandum.
"What would the authorities and the ANC have done in our situation in which taxes and expropriation are applied to a specific group?
"The ANC's struggle history seems to be the answer."
The group demanded an effective and responsible government in which they could farm safely and with financial sustainability.
If the government lacked the will or means to ensure this, the group demanded a separate space in which they could live according to their own norms and standards.
This could eventually be to the benefit of all, said the memorandum.
Earlier, a handful of farmers gathered outside the conference hall at tea time with posters reading "Geen boer, geen kos" (no farmer no food), "Ons grond eise = hongersnood" (land claims = famine), "Weg met grond rowers" (away with land robbers), and "Weg met kommunisme" (away with communism).
One used the opportunity to lobby for the retention of the capital city's name, with a placard reading "Pretoria bly (remains) Pretoria".
ohhhhhh BOY.
South Africa... thou shalt become a bigger FUBAR than Rhodesia became.
the Boer and "English" need to think "exit strategy"
ANC are simply communist. It'll end in tears.
Why anyone would want to live in the rathole that is Africa - much less fight for a piece of it - is beyond me. I'd sooner live in the arctic. In an igloo.
The Boers have nowhere else to go.
Actually, there's quite a few of them coming over here. The more the better, as far as I'm concerned.
I think the Boers should stay and fight for their country. The only problem is the United States and United Nations would side with the communist ANC.
Fully agreed. Americans and Europeans watch with glee as Boers are slaughtered in South Africa. Makes their guilty consciences feel a little better. Gives them some of that "higher moral ground".
Amen to more Boer-Americans! Might inject some fighting spirit into our tired common culture. Offer the Boers a homestead in the American Southwest and tell them, "you may continue the fight for civilization here; we'll provide backup!"
Send Jimmy Cahhh-tuh. He'll straighten things out, right after his press conference(s).
Hey! I just realized we could refer to Boers coming to the U.S. as immigrants as
"Afrikaner-Americans!"
Neat, huh?
Trouble in paradise.
"exit strategy"
Agreed. They need to take what cash they have, leave and let these idiots starve themselves to death.
If the whites cannot behave in a liberal democracatic utopia that the ANC is building then they should be put in their own seperate country where they cannot pollute the spiritual community of true equality that is coming after equality is reached. A Lesotho for the racalitrant Boers, that will teach them a lesson.
There is a fairly large community of SA Jews here in the ATL-area, that started getting out over 20 years ago. And agreed, the South Africans I've met have been good people, they should get "persecued immigrant" status of some sort, in my book, let'em come.
Funny story - I know one who came here with his family as a boy, who got an African-American scholarship for his last year of college, shortly after getting his citizenship. The black admins in the aid office weren't amused. I high-fived him and was lmbo when he first told me the story.
On that note, see my previous.
The Dutch should re-think that, with the problems they're having with non-assimilating Muslims.
The white, productive population in South Africa are finished.
Turn your country over to a bunch of ignorant communists, and this is what happens. Africa is a cesspool, and the truth is (though you won't ever hear this anywhere in the legacy media) that the only parts of that continent which were ever functional were the white, western run areas. South Africa will, in time, become the next Zimbabwe.
It would seem that all across the board, Western society has just lost the will to fight.
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