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".
Have you ever been to South Africa?
South Africa -- and Rhodesia -- were once the breadbaskets of Africa.
After the US conspired with the world socialists and pseudo-egalitarian MORONS to convert them to black dictatorships, they lost that status.
Now it's on to "land reform" to run the last European (read that "white") farm owners/managers off the land.
A few years of THAT -- and the corruption, graft and tribal rivalries kept in check by those hated whites -- and they will no longer be capable of feeding themselves.
And, no, I am NOT a racist.
Google "Eric Hoffer" for HIS SPOT ON thoughts on this subject from 40 years ago.
I would agree. Unless there can be a black farmer class that can feed South Africa, the nation is doomed. I think there might be one in the making, but you can't do that just by seizing farms and giving them to your political cronies.
It has yet to be shown that any Western men will do what is necessary to seize and hold a homeland outside of Europe, North and South America, and Australia.
It is not even clear that we are willing to fight for Europe.
Your advice to the Boers is easy to give. It may not be so easy for them to follow.
They'd better sell what they can and get out now.
It's revenge for Aperthied, pure and simple.
Unfortunately, the ANC embraced Communism because their enemies opposed it, nothing more. The supporters of Apertheid gave free enterprise and community a bad name and their decendants paying the price for it. What's worst of all, some people are claiming that South Africa's decline is being caused by racial equality, when the real culprit is Communism.
It won't be easy with other Western men siding against them. The US and Europe forced them to give up their power.
We have a lot of Boers here in Southern California, too. One runs into them in churches, in particular. But they and their descendants will assimilate into white-American culture, and from what I gather, a lot of Boers would prefer to remain Boers -- which is their right -- and there's only one place you can do that.
Trouble indeed. Although not unexpected, and certainly not new.
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