Bok Van Blerk New Song – Land Van Melk en Heuning

New Song of the famous Afrikaner singer Bok Van Blerk. Land of milk and Honey.

Enjoy!

Lirieke (Lyrics)

 

Elke keer as die wolke val die reën op die grond hy’t van ons geleen

Voel ‘n weer soos ‘n spook want jy staan aleen

In die land van melk en heuning                             

 

Jy weet ek sal vir jou ‘n spoorweg lyn wil bou

Wat strek van ver uit die noorde sande 

Tot in die ou karoo

 

Ek sal jou veilig hou

Maar wie kan ek vertrou

Jy weet ons kan nie so verloor nie

Dit is nie wat ek wil hoor nie

 

Elke keer as die wolke val die reën op die grond hy’t van ons geleen

Voel ‘n weer soos ‘n spook want jy staan aleen

In die land van melk en heuning

 

Jy kyk vir my maar jou oë is leeg

En jou voete staan stil

Jy moet dan beweeg

Jy is afgebreek, en nou sê my waar’s

Die land van melk en heuning

 

Daar woorde van ons gevat

En ons regte word geskenk

Daar word gedink dat wat ons oor het

Het ons gekry maar net

  

En daar was bloed voor gesweet

Gaan nou lewens ons eet

Moet ons nou stry vir ons eie mensereg

Dit word so gou vergeet

 

Elke keer as die wolke val die reën op die grond hy’t van ons geleen

Voel ‘n weer soos ‘n spook want jy staan aleen

In die land van melk en heuning

 

Jy kyk vir my maar jou oë is leeg

En jou voete staan stil

Jy moet dan beweeg

Jy is afgebreek, en nou sê my waar’s

Die land van melk en heuning

 

In die land van melk en heuning

(4x) Van die land van melk en heuning

In die land van melk en heuning

 

Elke keer as die wolke val die reën op die grond hy’t van ons geleen

Voel ‘n weer soos ‘n spook want jy staan aleen

In die land van melk en heuning

 

Jy kyk vir my maar jou oë is leeg

En jou voete staan stil

Jy moet dan beweeg

Jy is afgebreek, en nou sê my waar’s

Die land van melk en heuning

 

Louis Meintjes second in world cycling championship race

The South African and Afrikaner rider of MTN-Qhubeka team, Louis Meintjes won the silver medal in the under 23 road race of the World Cycling Championships in Florence, Italy. Louis has only 21 years of age and is one of the greatest promises of the South African and Afrikaner cycling. Congratulations to him.

  

Violence and white genoice in South Africa

Since the end of Apartheid, violence is in the order on the day in the South African society. Murderers, robberies, rapes and assaults happen every day in number that are concerning. These attacks affected every people, whites, blacks, coloureds, Indians or immigrants of all sort. However we since have witness since 1994 a continued violation of the whites rights in the South African society that are completely against the forgive and forget and the rainbow nation that Nelson Mandela promise. The South African whites are not only attacked by criminals but also discriminated by laws of the same party the man that wanted to create a harmonious multicultural society. Whites pay more taxes than the blacks, are victims of the policies of quotes in certain jobs so many became unemployed and go to poverty. Returning to the main point of this text the level of crime and violence in the South African society is so high that the security is the biggest problem that South Africa faces now. South Africa is one the countries in the world with the highest crime and murderer rate and is the region leader of this sad statistics. Since the end of Apartheid more than 174 000 people were killed, the number could be even higher, and many more suffered violent crime many of them with permanent consequences. But even worse than that is the fact that around 70 000 of those victims are white which is simply disturbing knowing that in South Africa whites are only a little bit more than 9% of the population. If 70 000 victims are not much if we consider the total of the South African population, considering the 5 million whites in South Africa is really a lot and is a situation of beginning of genocide because some crimes are definitely race motivated.  All this shows besides the general violence in the South African society a situation of white genocide even more notorious within the Boer-Afrikaners specially farmers.

Since 1994 around 4000 white farmers were killed in South Africa which is 2.2% of the white farmers in the country with more than 12% been attacked in their farms.  The truth is that unlike the ANC government says the attacks on whites specially the farm attacks are not only part of the bigger picture of crime in South Africa. These attacks are perpetrated many of times by organized groups of individuals that intend to kill whites because they consider them as whites foreigners and they are considered responsible for all the problems of South Africa. And In South Africa the victims are of every races but the criminals are almost ever blacks. But the worst part is that the ANC party not only doesn’t prevent these attacks on whites as also promotes discrimination which hate speech against white people. Slogans as Kill the Boer Kill the Farmer, Maak dood die wit man or One Settler, One Bullet unfortunelly were singed or displayed by ANC members and this shows the real dimension of the problem. And with all this the international image of South Africa continue to be the one that Mandela promised and not the real South Africa were people of every races are killed every day. The genocide risk on South Africa increased to level 6 on 8 levels which shows that the South African society is a society of risk where be white is dangerous. One of the main principles of a State is to give protection for it’s citizens and the truth is that the ANC governments have failed in deliver that and so they should be punished. This is also bad to the South African economy because the Afrikaners are very productive and with the deaths of Afrikaners and the fleeing of many others to other countries as Australia because of the crime in South Africa the South African economy will start to have worst numbers than now. For example when a farmer is killed a farm take many years to recover and that is negative to South African economy because the farm is abandoned.

 

Why help the afrikaner people

People often question themselves about the donations that do to other people and for nations/people . This reflection makes sense because obviously we do not want our donations are routed to different things to help the people not want it to be used to buy things that they’re not food or clothing. In our opinion should not be denied to anyone help, however, we must recognize that there are people who deserve more help than others, not because they are predestined or better etc but because there are people which do not have a state where they can organize and have a state that protects them both in terms of safety and in social terms. Among the many people who find themselves in this group are the boerAfrikaners. It is true that the Boer Afrikaners are integrated in a state that is South Africa, but this state is far from protecting the Boer-Afrikaners. We see the number of Boer-Afrikaners unemployed to increase greatly due to policies such as affirmative action that harm Afrikaners even if they are competent at work, we see a number of farms  confiscated to Afrikaners to increase the number of blacks or mestizos manage farms, we see the rise over the last 20 years of violence with thousands of Afrikaners killed and seriously injured. We see the free promotion of racism by politicians like Julius Malema or Jacob Zuma with musics like”kill the bóer, kill the farmer” and other actions

Of course Afrikaners feel that they don’t belong to the South Africa and it is deliberate. The result of all this is obvious – increase of poverty and hunger among Afrikaners. It is therefore essential to help these people who are unprotected and integrated in a state that despises them. It is true that there are other people who need help, who are starving, where there are many diseases but the responsibility to help these people is from their states. Afrikaners although they are in South Africa does not have enough political representation to be heard and therefore not have a state that protects both socially and physically.

 concluding, Afrikaners are a people who are stateless and in our view the aid to the people who are stateless  should be high-priority because they don’t have nobody to protect them unlike other African peoples that despite being very poor, have a state. The action on these people should not be the direct help but seek the state to assume his duties, being less corrupt and more active socially. Regarding the Afrikaners the aid should be direct(food, clothing, job offers) because Afrikaners are treated like second-class citizens not belonging to the Sotuh African state. Boer afrikaners have their  own  identity that is very different from other people who make up the South African State.

 Again we reaffirm the necessity of a volkstaat.A state  of bóer-afrikaners is prioritizing the Afrikaner people and protect them socially and physically

Afrikaans

In this post we will write about the language of the Afrikaners, and also of the South African Coloureds, the Afrikaans. It is the first language of 7.1 million of South Africans and is speak by many others. The Afrikaans is a West-Germanic language that developed from the XVII century Dutch. The Afrikaans speakers, Afrikaanssprekendes and not Afrikaners are divided into two main groups the Cape Coloured and Arikaners. It was developed by the earliest settlers in the Cape in that time under the administration of the Dutch Company of Eastern Indies. It shares much of his vocabulary with Dutch with 90 to 95% of the words being words of Dutch origin. However other languages also influenced Afrikaans some in the written form of the Afrikaans, which only became official in the XX century, and others in the spoken form of the language. The first Afrikaans evolved from the Dutch dialects of the South-West part of the Nederland’s because much of the first Afrikaners were original of that region. Despite sharing much of his vocabulary there are differences between Dutch and Afrikaans.

Tijd in Dutch become Tyd (Time) in Afrikaans. The ij in Dutch become y in Afrikaans with the exception of suffix lijk in Dutch that becomes lik in Afrikaans as in uiteindelik (Finally). The same happens is most of the Dutch surnames as in Van Wijk that becomes Van Wyk in Afrikaans.  The spelling is the same, ei, in both cases. Another difference is that in some words the z in the begin of some Dutch words passes to s in afrikaans as in Zuid – Suid (South) or zal that becomes sal. Other difference is the Dutch ch that is some cases becomes g especially in the suffix of some words. The word recht (right) in Dutch is one of these examples becoming reg in Afrikaans and the t in the end of some Dutch words also disappears.

Later French Hugenot settlers also came to the Cape Colony and became an important part of the Afrikaner people. They also influenced Afrikaans with some words and also the double negative in some phrases like in jy sal nie spel nie, meaning in English you will not play. The double negative of the Afrikaans language resembles to the French ne pas. Another language that influenced the Afrikaans was Malayan because of Malayan workers that the Dutch bring to the Cape Colony. One of the most famous words of Malayan origin is piesang which means banana. Also the Khoikoi languages of the natives influenced Afrikaans but more the Afrikaans spoke by the coloureds than the normal Afrikaans spoke by the Afrikaners. Another language that influenced the Arikaans language was Portuguese mainly because of the strong portuguese presence in Southern Africa and even with some immigrants to South Africa.  Some of the words of Portuguese origin are Kraal and evolution of the Portuguese word curral and Moveer developed from the Portuguese word mover which means to move in English and others. Also the accent of the Afrikaans varies for region to region and by people. The Coloured people around Cape Town still speak and old form of Afrikaans known as Cape Afrikaans ‘Kaapse Afrikaans’ a language that because is the first Afrikaans developed still has more Dutch words and a stronger Dutch accent than the today’s general Afrikaans . The biggest difference is the 1ºpronun which is ik as in Dutch rather than ek the standard Afrikaans word for I. Also in the general Afrikaans we see a different accent. Most of the cases people in the Western Cape speak an accent with a bigger Dutch influence and in the region of the Transvaal and the Vry Staat a deeper accent with also some German influences because many of the boers have German ancestry.

Since the end of Apartheid the Afrikaans such as the Afrikaners has been somehow marginalized by the ANC governments especially in the education were some Afrikaner schools and universities have no longed Afrikaans has the main language even in areas where the Afrikaanssprekendes are the majority of the population. Unfortunately many black South Africans still think that the Afrikaans is the oppressor language because of the fact of being the most important language during the Apartheid years something that influence the marginalization that the Afrikaans suffers now even with most of the speakers being Coloureds and not Afrikaners.

Localization of the Volkstaat

     We have previously done a text about why the idea of a Volkstaat for the Boer-Afrikaner people is a good idea and supported by the international law. Now we will write about the localization that we think is better to place the Volkstaat in the South African territory. Since the end of Apartheid and even before of it there have been many proposals of Boer-Afrikaner organizations or parties for a possible Volkstaat/Boerstaat. The Vryheidsfront proposal is a relatively remote area of the Northern Cape in which the Afrikaners can be a majority despite of the large number of coloureds, but don’t have many resources and is an area in which a part of the Boer-Afrikaner population doesn’t have almost any link. Another proposals were made in the around the town of Vryheid in the Kwazulu Natal and also in the region of the old Boer republics of the Transvaal and Oranje Vry Staat. In the case of the region around Vryheid we think that is too small to center there a Volkstaat where part of the Afrikaner population will live and will be more suitable for an Afrikaner settlement similar to Orania or Kleinfontein. In the case of building a future Volkstaat in the region of the old republics of the Transvaal and Oranje Vry Staat we think that is a region too big specially because this is not the XIX century and a Volkstaat there will lead to a massive dislocation of black people that is impossible to be done even that cities as Johannesburg or Soweto will not be part of the Volkstaat/Boerstaat.

       Our localization for the Volkstaat is from Prieska in the Eastern part of the Northern Cape province to Rustenburg in the South-East part of the North West province. The biggest cities in our proposal of Volkstaat are the following: De Aar and in the Northern Cape, Welkom and Kroonstad in the Free State and Klerksdorp Potchefstroom and Rustenburg in the North West. This region has in our opinion the best conditions for a Volkstaat because we have plenty of natural resources in the south of the North West province and also in the north of the Vry Staat. We have the two biggest South African rivers the Vaal and the Oranje rivers, that give the water needed for the population and for the agriculture that naturally will be one of the major activities in the Volkstaat making a use of the good agriculture development existing in the area and even developing it further because of the security that will be better than in the today’s South Africa where the crime is a major problem with almost 4000 farmers killed since the end of Apartheid and 70000 whites death. The region has also some industry that will be important to the development of the Volkstaat. Also in 2010 the Afrikaans newspaper Die Beeld done a survey where 56% of the Afrikaners say that support a idea of a Volkstaat and will move there if was created and a further 17% will consider it so we know that a Volkstaat is an idea with which many Afrikaners agree with and if will be made in the right region could attract many Afrikaners to it.  Our proposal of Volkstaat also includes the enclave of Orania which is a very important place for the Afrikaners because it is a bastion for the Boer-Afrikaner culture and a well developed place economically and socially that could serve as an example for the rest of the Volkstaat/Boerstaat.  We have also some doubts about some of the cities that could or not be in the Volkstaat  in border regions of the state. Lichtenburg and Kimberley will be cities that we need more time to decide if worth or not be our proposal of Volkstaat. In terms of the kind of autonomy that the state will have we think that the more achievable solution is an autonomous region rather than a full independent one because it a more viable solution. The Afrikaners now, will not have all the means to create a state and if the Volkstaat became independent probably many international voices of protest will be hear because many people still think that post Apartheid South Africa is the rainbow nation that Nelson Mandela promised and a fully independent Boer-Afrikaner state could still be linked with Apartheid regime even if wasn’t anything like that.

Racism claims in correctional services

Cape Town – Ten correctional service employees have taken the department to the Labour Court, claiming that they have been overlooked for promotions because they are not black.

Pieter Davids, a senior correctional services official told eNCA that white men had no chance of being promoted of the next five years in the department.

According to Davids, who is one of the complainants, the national Employment Equity plan discriminates against white and coloured South Africans.

He describes himself as one of the department’s top achievers, and has applied for a promotion on more than one occasion, much like other complainants.

However, due to correctional services’s affirmative action plan, a black candidate was chosen.

Davids turned to labour mediation body the CCMA but was unsuccessful and conceded that certain groups were disadvantaged under apartheid.

During cross-examination, Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza pointed out that it was inevitable that previously advantaged South Africans would suffer under the current Employment Equity plan even if they are qualified for the job.

He said it was not fair to say that white men would never be promoted, as the current guidelines would be revised in 2014.

Meanwhile, the correctional services employees involved in the case were worried they’d be persecuted.

Commentary

    This news gives us another example of the discrimination that the whites in South Africa and even people of other groups as the Coloureds suffer in South Africa. Once again the black empowerment politics prove to be racist for who is not black, just as in the case of the first post of this blog, the South African Airways case. We don’t understand why the complainers are not treated the same way and don’t have the same opportunities to develop there careers as the black guards, but this ANC government doesn’t care about the work or the qualifications of a person, this government only cares about the race and in giving the most jobs they can to blacks even if that means sacrificing people of other races that could have more abilities. These policies will only led to more incompetence, more corruption which is prejudicial to the development of the South African society and that we could already see today. But what is incredible is that even with the Black Empowerment Policies the unemployment rate in South Africa is very high and the blacks unemployment rate is still the largest, with the whites unemployment rate getting bigger year after year and throwing many whites into poverty. Is a discrimination to overlook certain people for a certain job just because they are not of a certain race, in today’s South Africa that means, that if you are not black you will have more difficulties in getting a job. If during the Apartheid the whites had better chances to get a job than people from other races and the all world protested, this case should not past without anything being modified and until putting an end to the discriminatory Affirmative Action policies, we should protest. We know that many of the highest earning jobs are still in the hands of whites in a manner that is not proportional to the South African race distribution but if we consider the distribution of jobs per race during Apartheid regime is normal that differences still exist today. And we should not put apart people of other races for certain jobs in detriment of black people even in the cases in which the whites, coloureds or indians have more qualifications to that job than blacks. The way to solve this is developing more the public education and formation for all the people giving a chance that the jobs are given to the best in each area. Also with an increased public and private investment more opportunities of work will be given to more people and then the unemployment rate will decrease for every racial group in South Africa.

Interview to the Secretary general of Vryheidsfront Party – Piet Uys

The Vryheidsfront(Freedom Front) is so far the main party representing the interests of the Boer-Afrikaners. Currently have 4 in 400 places in the South African National Assembly. It is the 5th largest party represented.

( Afrikaner  Way )Explain us a bit what is your function and position in the Vryheidsfront party?

(Piet Uys) I am the Secretary General and manage the main office of the Party.  We therefore receive and send most of the daily communication activities that are usually part of the management of a Political Party.  We do a lot of coordination of projects.  I am also the secretary of all our management meetings., and I am also part of the management of our finances.

      (AF)What as been the evolution of the Vryeidsfront Party along the time and from which party it originated from?

(PU) The Freedom Front Plus was established in February 1994.  It is the direct follower of the Afrikaner Volksfront which was active over the years 1993 -1994.  This was not a political party, but a cultural movement which tried to form unity amongst the different Afrikaner Parties.  The main reason for its existence was the fact that the Afrikaners realised that they will loose all forms of control over the government of South Africa  and that the National Party of that time did not have any plans regarding the self-determination of the Afrikaner people.  The Party was established because Genl. Constand Viljoen managed to obtain the agreement of the ANC that the self-determination will be addressed after the election of 1994.  In order to participate in these elections a new political party had to be formed.  The Party’s main campaign-propaganda was exactly that of the self-determination of the Afrikaner people.  During the elections of 1994 the Party obtained 640 000 votes which gave the Party representation in various provincial legislatures and also in the national Parliament.

(AF)  what are the major political objectives of the Vryheidsfront Party?

(PU) The major political objectives of FF Plus are to regain self-determination for the Afrikaner people.  This is based on Section 235 of the Constitution which allows self-determination.

      (AF)What is goal of the Vryheidsfront Party for the next legislative elections, what percentage of votes and how much deputies in the parliament you think it’s possible to get?

(PU)In the Election of 2013, the Party must at least double the representation in National Parliament  ; that will bring us to at least 8 representatives.  We must also regain representation in the Provinces of Gauteng, Freestate , Northern Cape and Mpumalanga .  Because we 1have a proportional election system, our representation will also be influenced by many other factors,  including the possibility of additional parties, which do not exist at the moment but who could appear on the horizon before April 2013.

     (AF) What is your perspective of the crime scene in South Africa in the recent years. Do you think that there has been a increase over the last years?

(PU) The level of crime in this country is unacceptable. On top of that it seems as if the police do not have the capacity to manage statistics.  If you visit the webpage of the SAPD you will however find a lot of statistics that will indicate that we have a crime-ridden society. It has never been this bad here before. During last week  it became known that we have more than a thousand police officers serving in the SAPD that have a criminal record, of which murder is also part.  There has definitely been an increase in crime of which the attacks on farms and the farmers are the most tragic.

(AF)  Do you think that the today’s crimes against Afrikaners and other whites in South Africa are encouraged by members of political parties like Julius Malema(Now at EFF) or Jacob Zuma(ANC) among others  with hatred speech or hatred songs like ‘’Kill the boer, kill the farmer’’

(PU)I will never say that any of the mentioned Parties actually encourage crimes against anybody.  The black people in South Africa  suffer just us much as the white people, and murders against the black people are proportionally more than that of white people.  Unfortunately, it appears as if the police is not able to solve the crimes.  Remember the hatred song “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” has been banned and is not allowed to be used.

     (AF) About the Volkstaat, we know that the Vryheidsfront Plus  proposed for that a relatively remote area of the Northern  Cape . What were the reasons for the Vryheidsfront Party choose that region and not the area of the Oranje Vry Staat or the Transvaal that probably represents better the history of the Boer-Afrikaner people.

(PU)The only reason why the Northern Cape was identified as a proposed Volkstaat is the fact that Afrikaners, if they resettle there, and do their own work instead of hiring black people, could physically form a majority.

(AF)The Vryheidsfront represents the Afrikaner people in UNPO(Unrepresented Nations and people organization)  an international democratic organisation that facilitates the voices of peoples worldwide, The presence in this organization, has helped the Afrikaner people in their struggle for self-determination?

(AF)Our presence in this UNPO has brought our dilemma under the attention of many more people and institutions.  It also helped to make our cause more acceptable in our country as well, as it improves the image and credibility of our arguments.  It also costs us 2000 Euros a year.

(AF) Vryheidsfront have contacted with European organizations and parties? What is their perspective on Afrikaner self-determination of the people?

(PU)We have indeed contacted specific political parties in Europe .  These Parties are very interested in the position of the Afrikaner people and are keen to learn more about our predicament.  We would really like to invite representatives from most of these parties to South  Africa , but financially it is not possible.  These Parties has shown a great understanding of our situation; we think the reason for that is that the people in Europe  have a lot of experience regarding minorities and how to solve their problems.  These Parties are keen to learn and are also prepared to give advice as far as possible.

   (AF)  In your proposal of Volkstaat which kind of people are allowed, only Afrikaners, only whites or all the people from all the races that want to live there and respect the Afrikaner people and the Afrikaans language?

(PU)Our Party has always indicated that we need territory where we can form the majority.  The main reason for this is that we insist on having Afrikaner schools and Afrikaner Universities; as the New South Africa continues to establish itself, Afrikaners will loose all the Afrikaans –  universities and schools, due to the fact that we are a minority.  Only the future will learn us how a proposed Volkstaat could be managed.

(AF)  Having regard to the current political what situation you prefer for the boer-afrikaner people, a federalist solution that would grant some autonomy(like in Spain  with Basques for example) or simple independence

(PU)I think that your question actually suggests a Federalist Solution to our problem. The important point is that, at the moment, we have nothing.  We are governed by the ANC-Party.  At the moment we have nothing and run the risk to be marginalised completely. My opinion is that if we gain some sort of independence or self-determination, it will be a unique model that perhaps do not exist anywhere in the world, at the moment.

A little biography of Christiaan De Wet

Christiaan Rudolf De Wet was born in 1854 in the Leeuwkop Farm in the district of Smithfield in the Oranje Vry Staat Republic. He was a Boer general, farmer, politic and rebel. His childhood was modest and humble living first in the farm of Leeuwkop and then in Dewetsdorp named after his father, Jacobus Ignatius De Wet. He began his military career in the 70’s decade and was a field cornet in the First Boer War (1880-1881) and participated in the battle of Majuba Hill where the Boers achieved a great win against the British troops and that ended the war the permitted the independence of the South African Republic, Transvaal. After the war he lived in his farm and in 1897 he became a member of the Volksraad, the Transvaal’s parliament. He began the Second Boer War as an acting commandant first in the Natal province and then in the West Transvaal under the command of General Piet Cronje. Is first winning as a commandant was in Sanna’s post where he, his brother Piet and the Orange Free State troops beated the British near Bloemfontein recovering the water supplies which resulted in around 2000 British dead because of enteric fever dysentery. He then attacked successfully a convoy in Reddersburg resulting in the surrender of the British troops involved in battle. After the British conquering of Pretoria and the fleeing of Kruger to Mozambique, De Wet alongside with fellow Boer generals Louis Botha and Koos De la Rey and others make a deal to keep the war against the British in a final effort to recovering the independence of the Boer republics. In this period of guerilla war De Wet was extremely successful being alongside with De la Rey the most successful Boer general in this period. He did several successful attacks against the british troops being able to liberate the major part of the western part of the Oranje Vry Staat. In January of 1901 he done an invasion of the Cape Colony but the invasion was not successful because of bad weather and the lack of help of the Cape Afrikaner generals. Towards the end of the war he remained relatively quiet because of the Free State isolation and lack of weapons. However he still inflicted a severe defeat to a British detachment at Groenkop. Various times the British try to capture De Wet but were always unsuccessful. When the war ended in 1902 De Wet represented the Oranje Vry Staat as is active State president because of the illness of President Marthinus Steyn. De Wet was one of the signatories of the Treaty of Vereeniging. In the years after the Second Boer War, De Wet, together with other Boer generals go to Europe to try to get support to the Boer cause. We and the other generals were unsuccessful in trying to change the terms of the treaty. In 1907 he was elected member of the Orange River colony parliament being minister of agriculture. In 1914 everything changed with the beginning of the First World War. South Africa that was strongly influenced by the UK support the United Kingdom against Germany and its allies. In Africa this led to the attack of the British forces to German colonies. The German South West Africa, Süd West Afrika, was attacked to the north by the Portuguese forces in Angola and to the South by South African force. This led to an insurrection of some Boers, the Maritz Rebellion because many Boers didn’t wanted to be involved in a foreign conflict and because some were sympathetic with the German cause, Germany had sent weapons to Boers in the Second Boer War and many Boers had German ancestry. De Wet alongside with other Boer generals of the Second Boer War participated in the Rebellion. He was defeated by General Louis Botha in November of 1914 at Mushroom Valley and was sentenced to 6 years of prison. He was released from prison after a year with the promise of doesn’t take an active part in politics. In 1915 German South West Africa was conquered and was administrated after that by South African government.

Christiaan De Wet was a true Boer patriot that fight for his land and people against a big opponent and that gave is freedom trying to keep the Boer-Afrikaner people out of a war that wasn’t them. He gave to us an example of bravery, patriotism and
fighting abilities that we need in this difficult moment.