Posted on 07/29/2002 12:45:55 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
WELKOM, South Africa The chanting of "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" at the funeral of the ANC member who coined the phrase is adding more fuel to the political fire here, as the attacks on white farmers continue unabated.
The ethnic cleansing of Southern Africa's commercial farm communities has taken the lives of 1,334 farmers, farm workers and their kin since 1994, the year the ANC took power. The farmers were killed most often in violent, organized attacks, always by young African males. Add to the death toll 12 farmers killed in Zimbabwe and four in Namibia. In 85 percent of the killings, not one item was stolen from the farms and farmhouses.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has called the farm murders of whites "the final stage of the revolution."
Said Dutch journalist Adriana Stuijt, a former anti-apartheid activist based in Holland, "If South Africa's vicious farm murders had occurred in Zimbabwe, these would have been world news. But these 'only' occurred in South Africa, and so the rest of the world remains oddly silent. Post-apartheid South Africa is apparently immune from the usual investigative journalism being conducted in the rest of the Western world."
"Why has the South African farmer become the world's most endangered species?" Stuijt asked. "Why are South Africa's few remaining commercial farmers now most at risk of being murdered in the whole world? They are being murdered at 264 per 100,000 population group. It is the highest in the world! A Nedbank probe recently described these farm attacks as 'deliberately targeting specific homesteads to kill the Afrikaner victims.'"
Stuijt noted that with more than half of South Africa's commercial farmers now already having vacated the sector permanently since 1994, "more than 1 million hectares less maize is also being harvested this year. The entire region with its 120 million people is also plunging headlong into widespread famine. And all these facts are not unrelated."
Protected speech?
In the week after the death of ANC member of Parliament Peter Mokaba, 43 the man who coined the ANC slogan "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" there were at least six known farm attacks in South Africa. The Dent farming couple in KwaZulu-Natal was killed at point-blank range in front of their teen-age son, who then was kidnapped to drive the getaway vehicle. At least five other farms were violently attacked; one attacker was killed, one injured.
Also, a shot was fired at an elderly Afrikaner farmer, and a Tswana farm foreman was tied up, threatened with a crossbow and his firearm stolen.
Cassie Aucamp of the Afrikaner Unity Movement told WorldNetDaily that the Afrikaners never politicized funerals. He asked the ANC to "imagine the uproar if Afrikaners were to start chanting, 'Kill the Xhosas, kill the blacks'" at the next funeral of a murdered farmer.
In response to Aucamp's complaint to the office of the president, Mbeki issued a statement a full five days after the Mokaba funeral, which he had attended, finally condemning the slogan's use as "unacceptable" hate speech.
The South African Human Rights Commission, however, recently ruled that the ANC slogan was not hate speech, but merely an expression of "the constitutional rights to free speech."
South African Policewoman Karen Allen told WorldNetDaily she is concerned about the plight of the farmers.
"The situation is out of control. Where are these farmers going to run to?" she asked.
A South African farming activist with the Transvaal Agricultural Union told WND, "It might indeed be a good idea for the U.S. Congress to hold hearings on the farm killings and extend visas to the Boers to go live in the United States."
PEOPLE: The population of South Africa is divided into four main ethnic groups. (1.) The Black Africans, of which the Nguni and Sotho groups account for 90% of the Black population, which also accounts for 76% of the country's entire population. (2.) The Whites who account for around 13% of the population. (3.) The Asians who account for around 3% and (4.) the Coloreds who are of mixed White and Black descent and account for 9% of the population.
Looks like more than 4 million. Of course, the longer people wait, the more white people will die painful, unlamented deaths.
We probably take in 4 million immigrants a year already, right?
Oh, wait, I forgot---we only allow people to immigrate if they are dirt poor and uneducated. It's against our policy to allow productive and educated people to immigrate to the USA.
Too late for Zimbabweans, certainly, but I was talking about South African farmers. They still have time to organize and defend.
BEWARE the man with but one gun.....he probably knows how to use it! With a modicum of warning and the proper terrain, even a bolt action rifle can create some long range havoc and extreme misery on intruders.
"If ya gotta go, make sure you don't make the trip alone!"
What this article has omitted, is the number of whites, who live in cities and suburbs, whom the ANC thugs / supporters , have also murdered / attempted to murder. This is a VERY serious situation.
The Afrikaners are far from passive, they own and use guns against the thugs, and they know far more, about what has and is happening in Zimbawe , than you do ! Try reading some South African newspapers, on the net, and learn something before you shoot off your mouth again.
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH !
Its white population peaked about 10-15 years ago somewhere around 5.4 million, but that has been falling fast of course since the country was given back to the natives in 1994.
My current information says that three-and two-thirds million whites have been left behind, many of them dirt poor and in desperate condition.
When we left Vietnam, we got out ALL the Americans, and many Vietnamese, before giving it back to the communist regime.
What I cannot imagine is how anyone was so thoughtless as to just sign a paper and give the country back, without doing anything to get our people OUT first! Britain and the Netherlands are even more to blame, for most of the whites abandoned came from there, very few came from the USA.
If we gave South Dakota back to the Indians, would we just leave its 700,000 whites there to be scalped and cut to pieces? No, we would need to take in those people into the other 49 states, and the same is true of South Africa. What a sin it was to abandon these fine Christian (Protestant) people, better educated and more hardworking than Americans.
Your use of Vietnam, as an analogy, doesn't hold water. When exactly was there a war, which we and England and the Netherlands acatually fought, lost, and in so doing, turned South Africa over to the bloody , stinking Commie ANC ? Did I and my extended family in South Africa all manage to sleep through it ? Hmmmmmmmmmm ?
BTW wasn't the Cape Colony once a Dutch possession, even if not royal then a wholly owned plantation of the Dutch East India Co.?
Say from about 1653-1702? Or even later, up till about 1792 or so?
Our people here in America have lost a war too, the same war, that is why religion cannot be taught in our schools, and why far far more Americans know about Martin Luther KING than about Martin Luther.
Yeah, I know, they came for the Boers, and we sold them to be murdered, because we were not Boers.
Who is going to come to our aid when we are eliminated? Israel? Ten minutes after we cease to be the majority, that is when the slaughter begins.
The West, and it's media whores, were responsible for handing South Africa over to the stinking Commies / ANC. There was NO " war ", and there was NO " war " here, in the way that word is meant, in respect to the drivel that you post. Your tinfoil is cutting off the blood supply to your brain. Blacks are NOT a majority , in the USA and won't be. So, will it be the " Hispanics ", a term which is ill suited to describe a VERY varied and diverse section of our population, soon outnumber whites ( wait a minute, some " Hispanics " are white ! )and slaughter them all ? Will the join with blacks and Asians to do that dirty deed ? Your hallucinations give far too much credence to lunatic propaganda. Ergo, it's a total waste of time, for me, to continue to bother responding to such an irrational, intempret, delusional person.:-)
I think this to be sage advice.
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