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So asks Newsweek's cover, which features a full-length photo of the prime minister his people voted the greatest Briton of them all. Quite a tribute, when one realizes Churchill's career coincides with the collapse of the British empire and the fall of his nation from world pre-eminence to third-rate power. That the Newsweek cover was sparked by my book "Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War" seems apparent, as one of the three essays, by Christopher Hitchens, was a scathing review. Though in places complimentary, Hitchens charmingly concludes: This book "stinks." Understandable. No Brit can easily concede my central thesis: The...

South African farm murders have long been a niche cause on the Internet, and the country has made headlines again due to a South African government plan to seize the land of white farmers under the guise of “South African land reform.” News of these farm murders and land seizures have gained steam with the release of Lauren Southern’s documentary Farmlands. And United States President Donald Trump has brought even more attention to the plight of Afrikaners with his tweet that he would be looking into the South African land and farm seizure. Most people don’t know much about the...

Mozambique: Islamic State captures key port, establishes its first outpost in southern Africa, imposes Sharia AUG 19, 2020 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER The desire to restore the caliphate is not discarded after setbacks. The service of Allah is not negated by setbacks. The jihad continues, and will continue, while the world yawns and tends to other matters. “Islamic State now has its first outpost in southern Africa after capture of key port in Mozambique,” by Julian Kossoff, Business Insider, August 17, 2020: Mozambique has become the latest African stronghold of Islamic State (IS) after well-armed insurgents captured a strategic...

Vladimir Putin may frighten some countries, but Russia gives many South Africans a warm and fuzzy feeling. They remember support in decades past: during apartheid the Soviet Union provided military training and arms to the African National Congress (ANC), as well as to other liberation movements on the continent. Some surprisingly common South African first names—such as Soviet, Moscow and Lenin—are living tributes to these old ties. Sputnik Ratau, born shortly after the first satellite’s launch, is a spokesman for the water and sanitation department. A high school in KwaZulu-Natal is named after Eric Mtshali, a stalwart of the struggle...

South Africa's state-owned Land Bank said on Monday a plan to allow the state to seize land without compensation could trigger defaults that could cost the government 41 billion rand ($2.8 billion) if the bank's rights as a creditor are not protected. Land Bank is a specialist bank providing financial services to the commercial farming sector and other agricultural businesses. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Aug. 1 that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is forging ahead with plans to change the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation, as whites still own most of South Africa's land...

If you want to take a glimpse into the future of our brave new multicultural world, i.e. what is going to happen to any country formerly dominated by “whitey”, look no further than South Africa. Also, I would strongly recommend you to watch Lauren Southern’s documentary Farmlands, it will red-pill you forever (the link’s at the bottom of the article). Moving along with today’s news story, South African whites, also known as Boers, are currently facing murder, rape and robbery on an industrial scale. Speaking of murder rates, white South African farmers are going to become extinct in a few...

PRESS FOR MUSIC The Boer and his gunAnton MyburghTranslation by Piet Smith (YouTube). Put your hand on the plough In the sun you will sweat Because the Boer and his gun never grow tired. Because the Boer and his gun never get tired to plough When he stands, he stands firm as a rock If you put chains around his language The devil will get you Leave his land, you are playing with a bomb's fuse. Carry on farming, Boer son No one will take your land away Because the Boer and his gun never grow tired. Because the Boer...

The Malema hate speech trial on Thursday heard that Afrikaans people living on farms feel the ’Dubula Ibhunu’ songs are directed at them. There were also discussions about the real meaning of the word ’boer’. AfriForum is asking the Equality Court to stop ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema from singing the songs. Speaking through a translator the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) Professor Danie Goosen said Afrikaners felt threatened by the songs. “It is seen as a threat to their physical position and it is seen as a threat to their symbolic connection with South Africa,” he said. However,...

The gunman leant forward and pushed the pistol hard into Manie Potgieter’s neck. “Listen, you white bastard,” he whispered, his breath heavy with alcohol. “I have Aids. We are now going to rape your wife and give her Aids too. Then, we kill you, got it?” From his position on the floor, hands tied behind his back, he could hear his assailant’s three accomplices pulling the tracksuit bottoms off his wife, Helena, 28. “I was sure they were going to shoot me, but I just prayed she would be OK. She was telling me in Afrikaans not to worry. I...

Johannesburg - Attackers set a wooden house on fire on a farm near Carolina at the weekend, while a woman and her children were still inside. The armed attackers had tied the door with a piece of wire, trapping the victims inside. The woman's parents were shot at when they rushed to their aid. "They were bent on killing us. This had nothing to do with theft," ... She woke up to the smell of smoke at about 22:00 on Saturday night. She saw the wall and the curtain in her room were in flames. The attackers had poured diesel...

As white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche is buried, the dangerously charismatic Julius Malema threatens the country's future. We are not here to mourn the white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche, whose funeral took place yesterday, but since his name is on the world's lips, let's face the truth: the saddest thing about his murder last weekend is that it obscured an event that casts an infinitely darker shadow. The event took place in Zimbabwe, and involved, as fate would have it, Julius Malema, the ANC Youth League leader whose repeated singing of an old struggle song about shooting Boers is viewed by many...

South Africa's ruling African National Congress has been accused of inciting the murder of white people after it urged the public to ignore a court ruling that an anti-apartheid song featuring the words “Kill the Boer” was “illegal hate speech”. The struggle song, entitled Ayesaba Amagwala (The Cowards are Scared), was sung at political rallies during the time of racial segregation but was recently resurrected by Julius Malema, the leader of the ANC’s youth league at a student meeting. Julius Malema addressing students in Johannesburg But with the word Boer meaning farmer in Afrikaans, the murder of white farmers in...

Its the 170th anniversary of a pioneer story hardly anyone ever hears anymore. One of those stories about courageous men with nothing more than a bag of seeds, a hoe, hammer and musket, a pregnant wife and a horse come to stay. They fought off wild animals, hostile natives, outlaw bandits and other hardships to make the once desolate landscape a land of flowing milk and honey. The story you are about to read is one that hardly any American ever hears. Primarily because this story is not set in the wild untamed west of North America but in the...

WHITE South African farmers are watching with mounting unease as the Government finalises plans to take over a white-owned farm and hand the land to descendants of its original black owners. The seizure, which follows the failure of talks lasting more than two years between the authorities and an Afrikaner family, will signal the end of the willing seller/willing buyer policy. Other white farmers fear that it could mark the start of a far more aggressive land redistribution programme. Land ownership is a sensitive issue in a country that has been spared the violent seizures without compensation of neighbouring Zimbabwe,...

The Boer Afrikaners of the northern regions of South Africa -ie: the region where the former Boer Republics were once established- were generally considered more conservative & republican than those especially in the Western Cape. Is this still true? A recent growing emergence of Boer nationalism among educated & different classes as a result of their increasinly dire circumstances would suggest that past political differences might be yielding in the face of a growing collective threat.

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...

This date February 23 2004 marks the 150th (one hundred & fiftieth)anniversary of the founding of the Orange Free State. The Orange Free State was a former Boer Republic located in southern Africa which was established in 1854 by local Boers who were Voortrekkers who migrated from the eastern Cape during the 1830s & 40s & was officially recognized as an independent republic on February 23 1854 with the signing of the Bloemfontein Convention. Two years prior: the British also recognized the independence of the Transvaal Republic with the Sand River Convention. The Orange Free State was called the "model...

Loony 'chosen people' vow revenge Hannes de Wet and Mariette le Roux Hannes de Wet and Mariette le Roux | Pretoria 30 November 2002 13:19 As police were rounding up suspected right-wing troublemakers in a countrywide swoop on Friday, a body purportedly representing such extremists threatened more violent attacks. A statement issued under the logo of the Boeremag warned the festive season would see "revenge" attacks across the country. The police were collating information on Friday afternoon from its "Operation Hopper" that included raids on 94 farms and other residences since 5am. Those arrested so far included Gaye Derby-Lewis, wife...

A sun-dappled morning breaks over Braam Pretorius street, a picture of leafy serenity, and the white-only staff of Radio Pretoria turn on the microphones for another day of vocal resistance to the new South Africa. "There is a storm out there. Our culture is under attack. We're expected to speak only bloody English. Things are going to have to change," said the station manager, Jaap Diedericks. With its Boer flags and portraits of victories over the Zulus the studio resembles an Afrikaner museum, but Mr Diedericks believes Radio Pretoria is about the politics of the future, not nostalgia. A regime...

Orania, an Afrikaner enclave on the edge of a desert, is being flooded with applications from whites disillusioned with South Africa's black government. Founded in the early 1990s as white rule ended, the enclave, named after the local river, was an attempt by Afrikaner purists to preserve their culture around an independent Boer republic. The founding fathers expected thousands to join them but only 600 moved to the dusty, windswept town on the edge of the Karoo desert. Now, with a widespread fear that South Africa will follow Zimbabwe into political and racial turmoil, Orania is beginning to fill up....